The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is extending by another three months certain current exclusions to its Section 301 investigation related to U.S. trade with China.
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 Aug. 27, 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 has released two Customs Bulletins. The Aug. 20 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 59, No. 34) contains a modification of two ruling letters and revocation of treatment relating to the tariff classification of dimmers.
While many attorneys believe that one of the cases on the legality of President Donald Trump's tariffs is on a collision course with the Supreme Court, questions remain about exactly when the high court will review the case and in what form. One possibility would see the lead appeal, V.O.S. Selections v. Trump, which currently sits before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, head to the Supreme Court's emergency, or "shadow," docket.
The EU announced Aug. 28 that it had proposed a return to duty-free treatment for American lobster exports, and added processed lobster to that category, and to eliminate tariffs on American industrial goods and to provide preferential access for other U.S. seafood and what the EU called "non-sensitive agricultural goods."
CBP released a Federal Register notice late on Aug. 28 outlining procedures and requirements for the end of the de minimis exemption at 12:01 ET Aug. 29. Among other things, the notice says the executive order ending de minimis for all countries supersedes the relevant provisions of the earlier executive order that ended de minimis for China, meaning that postal shipments from China entered on or after Aug. 29 will be subject to the same flat-rate duties for postal shipments as all other countries.
CBP is ready to process the low-value packages that used to qualify for de minimis, officials said Aug. 28, hours before the change comes into effect.
The International Trade Commission began a Section 337 investigation on allegations that Dorel Industries of Canada and two Chinese companies are importing and selling child car seats that infringe patents held by Wonderland Switzerland AG, Iron Mountains LLC, Nuna Baby Essentials, Joie Children’s Products and Graco Children’s Products (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1459), it said in a notice to be published Aug. 28.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Aug. 27 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):