Letex Apparels, a Hong Kong trading company, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California alleging that CBP negligently seized or forfeited 26,016 of the company's imported garments valued at $460,743.36. The company argued that, in handling its merchandise, CBP failed to "exercise due care" in handling the goods and violated the company's Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable seizure, the Administrative Procedure Act and a federal rule of criminal procedure requiring the return of property held by the government that isn't needed for evidentiary purposes (Letex Apparels Co. v. United States, C.D. Cal. # 2:25-04462).
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 21, 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.
The U.S. is the country of origin for platform software manufactured by Unifyia, according to a May 15 final determination announced via notice set for publication in the Federal Register.
Canada is the country of origin for two models of meeting tables manufactured by Global Industries, according to a notice released by CBP May 22.
CBP recently ruled which country would be the country of origin for Biomedix Selec-3 Multiple Drop Intravenous Product under five different scenarios, according to a notice released by the agency May 22
CBP has released its May 21 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 59, No. 21). While it contains no ruling notices, it includes four Court of International Trade slip opinions.
In the wake of President Donald Trump's May 12 executive order on prescription drug prices, CBP warned that it would "pursue any violations to the fullest extent possible" if it discovers that a party is failing to correctly input values related to prescription drug prices.
The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, is leading a delegation to Ottawa this weekend. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., who led the effort to end 25% tariffs on Canadian goods, and Sens. Peter Welch, D-Vt., and Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., also are going.
Scott McBride, a former longtime official at the Commerce Department overseeing the administration of antidumping and countervailing duty laws, has joined The Bristol Group as counsel, the firm announced. McBride served at Commerce for over 25 years, most recently as associate deputy chief counsel for trade enforcement and compliance. He told us he stayed over the last few years to oversee the agency's major regulatory changes to its AD/CVD administration, which included the ability to address transnational subsidies (see 2505020067), then recently decided to take early retirement.