CBP has released its July 16 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 59, No. 29). While it contains no ruling notices, it includes three Court of International Trade slip opinions.
Trade restrictions in pending Section 232 investigations for copper, lumber, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, critical minerals, heavy-duty trucks, commercial aircraft and engines, polysilicon and drones are a foregone conclusion, but "exactly what those trade measures will look like" has not been decided, Steptoe's Jeff Weiss said during a firm webinar.
The US-China Business Council released its annual member survey, which shows almost all U.S. companies operating in China are concerned about the impact of tariffs on their business. Tariffs jumped from the eighth-highest concern in last year's survey to number two in this year's, with the highest being U.S.-China relations.
Trade observers are waiting for more information about whether Aug. 1 tariffs on Canada and Mexico will include goods that currently qualify for duty-free treatment under USMCA, according to comments by Flexport officials during a July 16 webinar.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the July 16 Federal Register on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register July 16 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 will retroactively suspend liquidation and set countervailing duty cash deposit requirements for previously uncovered entries from some exporters of overhead door counterbalance torsion springs from China (C-570-187), it said July 16.
The Commerce Department has set new antidumping duty cash deposit requirements for imports of erythritol from China (A-570-192), after finding sales at less than fair value by Chinese producers in the preliminary determination of its AD investigation. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements took effect for entries on or after July 16.
The Commerce Department has released amended final results of the antidumping duty and countervailing duty administrative reviews on aluminum extrusions from China (A-570-967/C-570-968), originally published Feb. 8, 2022, and Feb. 9, 2022, respectively, to align with the final decision in a court case that challenged the inclusion of one company, Kingtom Aluminio, in the reviews and the assignment of duties in those results.
On July 15, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts (after not having posted new ones for a number of days) on the detention without physical examination of: