The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on carbon and alloy steel threaded rod from India (A-533-887). In the final results of this review, Commerce may set assessment rates for subject merchandise entered April 1, 2022, through March 31, 2023, from the 112 companies under review.
On May 3, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will on May 20 "roll out" use of its APHIS Core Message Set for Certificates of Foreign Inspection and/or Treatment, or PPQ Form 203, for air shipments of precleared commodities from Chile, air shipments of precleared commodities from Thailand, and both air and maritime shipments of precleared commodities from Argentina, the agency said in a bulletin on May 6. This will create an electronic database -- for Certificates of Foreign Inspection and/or Treatment -- that can be "invoked" by filers and accessed by CBP agriculture inspectors through the Automated Commercial Environment Document Image System. "The process will function like current permitting and ePhyto capabilities in ACE," APHIS said.
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on May 6:
Germany-based private airline company Hahn Air Lines and its Minnesota-based subsidiary, Hahn Air USA, will pay $26.8 million to settle allegations the companies violated the False Claims Act by "knowingly failing to remit to the United States certain travel fees" the airline collected from commercial passengers flying to or within the U.S., DOJ announced.
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 May 3, 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 begin requiring trade community users to identify the "subject company" whenever a report is run or scheduled in ACE Reports starting on May 16, the agency said in a CSMS message May 6. There will be a phased roll-out through August. The first universe affected is the Importer Security Filing (ISF). All existing scheduled reports will need to be updated after this change has taken effect or the scheduled reports will fail, CBP said. CBP will have a pre-deployment call on May 10 at 1 p.m. EDT.
The Mediterranean Shipping Company denied allegations by the Federal Maritime Commission that it knowingly violated U.S. shipping laws, calling a proposed $63.2 million FMC penalty "excessive and unlawful.”
Automakers and their trade groups cautioned the Bureau of Industry and Security to tailor its restrictions narrowly -- and allow a phase-in -- if they want manufacturers to stop buying information technology components from China for cars with advanced features, including electric cars.