CBP released a notice outlining refund procedures to implement President Donald Trump’s April 29 executive order on tariff stacking. The notice says that, beginning May 16, importers may request refunds on entries on or after March 4 by way of a post-summary correction for unliquidated entries or a protest for entries that have been liquidated but where the protest period hasn’t expired.
The Court of International Trade on May 15 held that a product is "imported" for duty drawback purposes when it's admitted into a foreign trade zone and not when entered for domestic consumption. Judge Timothy Reif said the definition of "importation" found in both the dictionary and Supreme Court rulings distinguishes "importation" and "entry." The judge added that when Congress passed the current drawback statute, it specifically decided the five-year period to make a drawback claim runs from the date of importation and not the date of entry. As a result, the court dismissed importer King Maker Marketing's case challenging CBP's rejection of its substitution unused merchandise drawback claims for being untimely.
The U.K. should be wary of language in the recently announced trade framework with the U.S. (see 2505090006) that calls on Britain to comply with certain supply chain security requirements, which they said the U.S. could use to pressure the U.K. in its trading relationship with China, the U.K. Parliament heard from witnesses this week.
Thea Lee, head of the Bureau of International Labor Affairs during the Biden administration, complained that the tariff approach of the Trump administration ignores forced labor, and that the Department of Government Efficiency ended all the programs ILAB funded around the world. Those programs aimed to convince local societies to end child labor, to help foreign countries improve working conditions, and they funded research on the best ways to achieve these goals. The grants totaled more than $575 million, and some were scheduled to run through 2026, 2027 or 2028.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register May 14 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 has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on forged steel fluid end blocks from Germany (A-428-847). Commerce preliminarily calculated an AD rate of 8.9% for BGH Edelstahl Siegen GmbH, the only company still covered by the review. Any changes to BGH's cash deposit rates would take effect on the publication date of the final results of this review, currently expected in September. Once Commerce issues its final results of the review, if the outcome doesn't change, the agency will assess AD at importer-specific rates for entries of subject merchandise from BHG entered Jan. 1, 2023, through Dec. 31, 2023, it said.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on polyethylene terephthalate film from Taiwan (A-583-837). Commerce continued to find, as it did in the preliminary results of this review, that Nan Ya Plastics Corp. did not undersell subject merchandise during the period of review, assigning the company a zero percent AD rate. Subject merchandise from Nan Ya entered between July 1, 2022, and June 30, 2023, will be liquidated without any assessment of antidumping duties, and future entries of subject merchandise exported by Nan Ya won't be subject to AD cash deposit requirements until further notice. The new AD cash deposit rate takes effect May 14, the day the final results were published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department has issued the final results of its antidumping duty administrative review on methionine from Spain (A-469-822, CBP # A-470-822). For entries on or after May 14, the date these final results were published in the Federal Register, Commerce is setting a new 0.71% AD cash deposit rate for the only company under review, Adisseo España S.A., the same rate as in the preliminary results of the review. Commerce will liquidate entries at importer-specific rates for entries from Adisseo during the period Sept. 1, 2022, through Aug. 31, 2023.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on steel nails from South Korea (A-580-874). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers of subject merchandise entered July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of a countervailing duty administrative review of certain lined paper products from India (C-533-844). Rates set in this review will be used to set importer assessments for subject merchandise from Navneet Education Limited entered during the period Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022.