In a scope ruling released May 7, the Commerce Department said that certain temporary use spare tires imported from China by Logistical Resource Development aren’t subject to antidumping and countervailing duty orders on Chinese passenger vehicle and light truck tires. It has reached similar decisions regarding temporary use tires from Taiwan and Thailand (see 2403120022) and 2401250038).
CBP has revised the subheadings included on the list of commodities of energy and energy resources of Canada subject to 10% tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act fentanyl emergency to account for input from interagency partners, according to a May 15 cargo systems message.
CBP created Harmonized System Update 2518 on May 13 and HSU 2519 on May 14. HSU 2518 contains 79 Automated Broker Interface records and 23 Harmonized Tariff Schedule records. HSU 2519 contains 1 ABI record and 1 HTS record.
A product is "imported" for duty drawback purposes when it's admitted into a foreign-trade zone and not when entered for domestic consumption, the Court of International Trade held on May 15. Judge Timothy Reif said the definition of "importation" found in both the dictionary and Supreme Court precedent distinguishes importation from entry.
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.
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.
CBP has added several new enhancements, detailed in its May ACE Development and Deployment Schedule, that seek to facilitate the input of tariff-related data into ACE.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of May 5-11:
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CBP released guidance on the decrease of the reciprocal tariff rate on China to 10% beginning at 12:01 a.m. EDT on May 14. As provided in the executive order issued by President Donald Trump the previous day, the guidance says filers of entries from China, Hong Kong and Macau after the effective date should report subheading 9903.01.25, which is the subheading for the 10% universal tariff applicable to almost all countries.