The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on Jan. 10:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Jan. 9, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.
CBP has released its Jan. 10 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 1). While it contains recent court decisions, no customs rulings are included.
House Ways and Means Committee Trade Subcommittee Chairman Adrian Smith, R-Neb., said he thinks the chances are good for renewing the Generalized System of Preferences benefits program in 2024, due to bipartisan interest in the legislation. "A lot of members have examples from their district of why we need GSP." He added that a three-year lapse of the benefit program is "inexcusable."
Alba Wheels Up International acquired customs broker John A. Steer, Alba said in a news release Jan. 9. The acquisition will “broaden the companies’ geographic reach” and fortify “Alba’s position as a dominant force in the customs brokerage, freight forwarding, and related industries with significant regulatory and logistics expertise across a handful of end markets,” the release said. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
A Texas shipper accused major Chinese ocean carrier Cosco Shipping Lines of violating U.S. shipping regulations through unfair detention and demurrage charges, costing it nearly $2 million in damages. Visual Comfort & Co, a shipper of lighting products, said Cosco “refused” to extend free days for containers that couldn’t be returned to the port and declined to divert shipments to less crowded ports, allowing the carrier to charge “astronomical” D&D fees.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on cold-drawn mechanical tubing of carbon and alloy steel from Italy (A-475-838). Commerce set an AD rate of 2%, unchanged from the preliminary results, for the only company under review, Dalmine S.p.A. Subject merchandise from Dalmine entered June 1, 2021, through May 31, 2022, will be liquidated with that AD rate, and the new 2% AD cash deposit rate for Dalmine takes effect Jan. 10, the date these final results are to be published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on tapered roller bearings and parts thereof from China (A-570-601). Commerce will assess AD duties at rates determined in these final results on subject merchandise from the companies under review entered June 1, 2021, through May 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department issued its final determination in its countervailing duty investigation on tin mill products from China (C-570-151). Suspension of liquidation is currently not in effect for entries on or after Oct. 24, 2023, and Commerce will require cash deposits of estimated CV duties on future entries only if it issues a CV duty order.