The following lawsuit was filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Jan. 15-21.
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 Jan. 22, 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 will upgrade the ACE Reports application to run on SAP Business Objects 4.3 on Jan. 27. The upgrade will involve changes to the user interface, the agency said in a Jan. 23 CSMS message. CBP will hold a pre-deployment support call for the trade community at 1 p.m. EST Jan. 25. It will host a live demonstration call at 2 p.m. EST Jan. 31. A post-deployment support call at 2 p.m. EST Feb. 1 will be in combination with the biweekly trade call scheduled for that day.
International Trade Today is providing readers with the top stories from last week in case they were missed. All articles can be found by searching on the titles or by clicking on the hyperlinked reference number.
A joint report from Sheffield Hallam University's Laura Murphy, now at DHS, as well as Anti-Slavery International and the Investor Alliance for Human Rights, doesn't name any new sectors or firms with exposure to Uyghur forced labor, but offers resources for those wishing to avoid that risk in either the solar panel or electric vehicle battery sector.
CBP issued a ruling that found a company acted as a buying agent on a transaction, despite being listed as a buyer on shipping documentation. The agency said it would grant a protest from Tianjin Leviathan Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Leviathan Corporation, that found the buying commissions it earned should be deducted from the valuation of merchandise that was actually bought by its parent.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission on Jan. 22 announced the appointment of Austin Schlick as its executive director. Jessica Rich will take over as general counsel, Schlick’s former role, CPSC said.
Elizabeth Cannon, former global trade counsel with Microsoft, has joined the Bureau of Industry and Security as the executive director of the agency’s Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services, a BIS spokesperson said. That office is responsible for implementing certain prohibitions on information and communications technology and services transactions, restrictions on foreign access to certain U.S. sensitive data, and more. Cannon’s first day was Jan. 22.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Jan. 22 Federal Register on the following AD/CVD injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):