The Commerce Department issued the final results of its antidumping duty new shipper review on carbazole violet pigment 23 from India (A-533-838) covering Sudarshan Chemical Industries Limited. The agency continued to calculate a zero percent AD rate for subject merchandise both produced and exported by Sudarshan Chemical. Effective March 27, Commerce will not require AD cash deposits for subject merchandise produced and exported by Sudarshan Chemical until further notice.
On March 25, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service intends to allow imports of fresh Hass avocado fruit from Guatemala, it said in a notice released March 26. An agency pest risk analysis found “the application of one or more designated phytosanitary measures will be sufficient to mitigate the risks of introducing or disseminating plant pests or noxious weeds” with the importation of Guatemalan avocados, APHIS said. If APHIS finalizes the decision, it will allow imports into the U.S., subject to the phytosanitary requirements specified by the agency. Comments will be accepted through May 28.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of March 18-24:
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 March 25, 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 is updating its Document Image System implementation guide to modify the document review process for documents submitted to DIS, it said. CBP will be able to send users a status of "accepted" or "under review" when a document is accepted or in the process of being reviewed, the agency said in a CSMS message March 26. Before the update, a review status was available only when a document has been rejected. The review status messages returned to the filer also may now have accompanying comments, CBP said.
CBP is set to publish an "artificial intelligence strategy" with “guiding principles and goals” on how CBP can use AI “responsibly and with governance," Sanjeev Bhagowalia, the assistant commissioner for CBP’s Office of Information Technology, said March 26.
PHILADELPHIA -- Troy Miller, acting CBP commissioner, said that since stakeholders have said they're concerned that de minimis and trade cheating in USMCA and the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement is damaging the domestic and Latin American textile and apparel industries, the department will release a comprehensive plan to intensify enforcement soon.
PHILADELPHIA -- Bill Reinsch, a senior scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told CBP Executive Assistant Commissioner AnnMarie Highsmith that he is pessimistic Congress will vote on any trade bill, whether liberalizing trade, as in the Generalized System of Preferences benefits program or the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill, or restricting it, as in changes to de minimis eligibility or changes to trade remedy laws.