The U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina last week sentenced Alan Nordman, a former CBP employee and North Carolina resident, to one year of probation for illegally selling a customs declaration form signed by a celebrity, Michael Jackson. Judge Kenneth Bell penned the order, which also said that Nordman shall forfeit his interest in the customs form. The North Carolina man pleaded guilty in November to one count of conveyance of a government record for auctioning the form on eBay, where it sold for $795 in 2022.
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 April 8, 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.
Headphone or speaker retail display shelves imported by Fasteners for Retail aren't covered by an antidumping and countervailing duty orders on prepackaged boltless steel shelving units from China, the Commerce Department said in a March 29 scope ruling. Among other things, the display shelves aren't shelving units -- they are only decks, or parts of shelves, it said.
The entry summary data universe has been updated to include all data elements that currently exist in the antidumping and countervailing duties data set in the Automated Commercial Environment Reports, CBP said. Users will no longer have to create reports that use both the entry summary and AD/CVD universes, the agency said in a CSMS message April 9. The AD/CVD universe is scheduled to be retired April 18, so "users should repoint" saved reports that use the AD/CVD universe or a combination of the AD/CVD and entry summary universes to the entry summary universe before that date, CBP said.
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DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told an audience of domestic textile producers that de minimis is based on a "false premise" that low value means low risk, and said that is not the case.
The U.S. hopes to open a “limited access channel” to the Port of Baltimore by the end of April and to fully reopen the channel by the end of May, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said April 4. The limited channel would be 280 feet wide and 35 feet deep, the Corps of Engineers said, and would “support one-way traffic in and out of the Port of Baltimore” following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge last month (see 2403260047).
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on uncoated paper from Portugal (A-471-807). The agency preliminarily calculated an AD rate of 1.07% for the only company under review, The Navigator Company, S.A. Any changes to Navigator's cash deposit rate would take effect on the date of Federal Register publication of the final results of this review. Once Commerce issues its final results, the agency will assess duties at importer-specific rates for entries of subject merchandise from Navigator entered March 1, 2022, through Feb. 28, 2023.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on certain new pneumatic off-the-road tires from India (A-533-869/C-533-870). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set AD assessment rates for subject merchandise for the companies under review entered March 1, 2022, through Feb. 28, 2023, and CVD assessment rates for entries Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022.