On May 1, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz told commerce deputy secretary nominee Paul Dabbar that, as "an experienced dealmaker," he hopes Dabbar will help to secure "freer and fairer trade with our allies, not across-the-board protectionism" -- and to also argue for that approach.
The Court of International Trade on May 2 held that importer BASF's fish oil ethyl ester concentrates "maintain the essence of fish" and are thus "extracts of fish" under Harmonized Tariff Schedule heading 1603 and not "food preparations" under heading 2106.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website May 1, 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 issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP has released its April 30 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 59, No. 18). While it contains no ruling notices, it does include four Court of International Trade slip opinions.
CBP has amended import regulations to reflect changes in import restrictions on certain archaeological and ethnological materials from Uzbekistan, according to a notice. The changes, effective May 5, come as Uzbekistan has been added to the list of countries with bilateral agreements with the U.S. imposing cultural property import restrictions. The restrictions fall under the authority of the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act.
As CBP has made it clear that it will ramp up efforts to ensure companies and importers are complying with import regulations and all the assorted tariff modifications, the roles of customs brokers and import compliance experts have been elevated within company structures, several trade experts said this week in webinars.
Hogan Lovells lawyers, speaking to an audience from the Massachusetts Export Center, said that conservative Supreme Court justices' desire to curtail executive decision-making through the "major questions doctrine" could put a stop to tariffs on countries around the world levied via the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA.
U.S. small business importers need a tariff exclusion process to avoid "irreparable harm," the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said in a letter to the secretaries of commerce and the treasury and the U.S. trade representative.