Malaysia's Ministry of Investment, Trade & Industry will be the only entity capable of issuing non-preferential certificates of origin for Malaysian shipments destined to the U.S., the agency said this week, adding that the change will help address traders that use its ports to illegally transship foreign goods to the U.S. and evade certain American import duties.
The International Trade Commission is seeking public input on remedies for its Section 337 investigation on Asus' imported computing equipment (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1382), it said in a notice to be published May 7. The ITC initiated the investigation in 2023 based on allegations that imports of Asus electronic computing devices infringe patents held by Lenovo (see 2312190066). The ITC partially terminated the investigation with respect to several of the claims at Lenovo's request, and the administrative law judge issued a final determination of no Section 337 violation. The ITC determined to review in full the ALJ's determination and is requesting written submissions addressing remedy by “close of business” on May 15.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register May 6 on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CVD rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department said it's rescinding the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain cased pencils from China (A-570-827) for the period of review Dec. 1, 2023, through Nov. 30, 2024, because there were no reviewable, suspended entries of subject merchandise during the review period for the five companies that remained under review after 34 others were determined not eligible for review. The five companies are: Centraline Stationery & Gift Co. Limited; Ningbo Homey Union Co., Ltd.; Shandong Wah Yuen Stationery Co. Ltd.; Tianjin Tonghe Stationery Co. Ltd; and Wah Yuen Stationery Co. Ltd.
The Bureau of Industry and Security will post all valid requests for new tariff subheadings to be added to the lists of derivatives subject to Section 232 steel and aluminum tariffs after the conclusion of the two-week window to submit requests that began May 1, BIS said in an interim final rule published May 2 (see 2504300031). Once they are posted, BIS will accept comments for 14 days.
In more than two hours of House appropriators' questions for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, trade was barely touched on.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of April 28 - May 4:
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 May 2-5, 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.
Type 11 informal entries may be filed in some circumstances for shipments over $2,500 with only one consignee, CBP reminded importers in a CSMS message May 6.