Automakers who build cars in America and import parts to do so will get a partial credit against the costs of 25% Section 232 tariffs on non-USMCA qualifying parts -- but the Commerce Department will examine companies' projections of both how many cars and light trucks they expect to build in the U.S. between April 3, 2025 and April 30, 2026, and the aggregate value of the MSRP of those vehicles.
A Federal Maritime Commission administrative law judge April 28 denied a complaint by Texas importer Visual Comfort & Co. (VCC) against Chinese ocean carrier COSCO Shipping Lines Co., saying VCC presented insufficient evidence that COSCO charged it $1.2 million in unfair demurrage, detention and storage fees.
Transportation and logistics firm DHL is now allowing business-to-consumer shipments to private individuals in the U.S. where the declared value exceeds $800, effective April 28, according to a service update.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the April 28 Federal Register on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register April 28 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 International Trade Commission has ended a Section 337 investigation on imports of laptop and desktop computers, tablet computers, streaming devices, televisions, cameras and components from Amazon and HP (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1380), it said in a notice to be published April 29. Complainant Nokia initially alleged in 2023 that Amazon and HP were importing various electronics that infringe seven of Nokia's patents covering motion compensated prediction inventions, improvements to video decoding techniques, encoding and decoding, and video compression (see 2311030010).
A domestic producer recently filed a petition with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission requesting new antidumping and countervailing duties on silicon metal from Angola, Australia, Laos, Norway, and Thailand. Commerce now will decide whether to begin AD/CVD investigations, which could result in the imposition of permanent AD/CVD orders and the assessment of AD and CVD on importers. Mississippi Silicon and Ferroglobe requested the investigation.
The Commerce Department issued its final determination in its countervailing duty investigation of certain alkyl phosphate esters from China (C-570-169), finding countervailable subsidization of producers and exporters. Suspension of liquidation is currently not in effect for entries on or after Feb. 1, 2025 and Commerce will require cash deposits of estimated CVD on future entries only if it issues a CVD order.
The Commerce Department issued its final determination in its antidumping duty investigation of certain alkyl phosphate esters from China (A-570-168). Changes to cash deposit requirements set in this final determination take effect April 25, the date they were published in the Federal Register.
On April 25, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of: