The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said that the administration is "very supportive" of Leveling the Playing Field Act 2.0, a bipartisan bill from Ohio's senators that would clarify how dumping calculations are made, would provide for expedited successive investigations when there is an import surge from a new country on a product subject to a trade remedy order, and would address extraterritorial subsidies (see 2104160037)

Corruption, poor logistics and overly strict rules of origin are all barriers to Mexico benefiting from companies' decisions to diversify out of China, a panel of experts from Mexico and the U.S. said. Luis de la Calle, a former Mexican trade official who worked on implementing NAFTA and who represented Mexico at the World Trade Organization, said Mexican leaders have a lack of vision to take advantage of this moment, and he said they are also hobbled by what he called "ideological incompetence."

A group of domestic manufacturers and a labor union seek the imposition of new antidumping duties on oil country tubular goods from Argentina, Mexico and Russia, and new countervailing duties on oil country tubular goods from South Korea and Russia, they said in a petition filed with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission Oct. 5. Commerce will now decide whether to begin AD/CVD investigations, which could result in the imposition of permanent AD/CV duty orders and the assessment of AD and CV duties on importers.

When the leaders of the Congressional Steel Caucus, members of Congress who advocate for steelmakers, start talking about how to wind down Section 232 tariffs on European steel, you know that the 25% tariff on steel from the European Union is unlikely to continue.

European Union Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis told reporters that because of the work that needs to happen within the EU to get it done before retaliatory tariffs are scheduled to double, the U.S. and the EU need to reach an agreement by the beginning of November. Tariffs on the retaliation list are supposed to double on Dec. 1. Dombrovskis said this on Bloomberg TV; he also suggested to reporters that the import and export monitoring that was part of the removal of steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada and Mexico is something that the EU is open to.

European Union Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis told reporters that because of the work that needs to happen within the EU to get it done before retaliatory tariffs are scheduled to double, the U.S. and the EU need to reach an agreement by the beginning of November. Tariffs on the retaliation list are supposed to double on Dec. 1. Dombrovskis said this on Bloomberg TV; he also suggested to reporters that the import and export monitoring that was part of the removal of steel and aluminum tariffs on Canada and Mexico is something that the EU is open to.

The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Sept. 24 with the following headquarters rulings (ruling revocations and modifications will be detailed elsewhere in a separate article as they are announced in the Customs Bulletin):

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is setting fiscal year 2022 country allocations for imports under tariff-rate quotas for cane sugar and refined sugars. The FY22 import TRQ for raw cane sugar was established at 1,117,195 metric tons raw value (MTRV), the minimum amount to which the U.S. is committed under the World Trade Organization (WTO) Uruguay Round Agreements (see [Ref:2109100027]). The USTR now allocates this TRQ among supplying countries and customs areas, as follows: Argentina 45,281; Australia 87,402; Barbados 7,371; Belize 11,584; Bolivia 8,424; Brazil 152,691; Colombia 25,273; Congo (Brazzaville) 7,258; Costa Rica 15,796; Cote d’Ivoire 7,258; Dominican Republic 185,335; Ecuador 11,584; El Salvador 27,379; Fiji 9,477; Gabon 7,258; Guatemala 50,546; Guyana 12,636; Haiti 7,258; Honduras 10,530; India 8,424; Jamaica 11,584; Madagascar 7,258; Malawi 10,530; Mauritius 12,636; Mexico 7,258; Mozambique 13,690; Nicaragua 22,114; Panama 30,538; Papua New Guinea 7,258; Paraguay 7,258; Peru 43,175; Philippines 142,160; South Africa 24,220; St. Kitts & Nevis 7,258; Swaziland 16,849; Taiwan 12,636; Thailand 14,743; Trinidad & Tobago 7,371; Uruguay 7,258; Zimbabwe 12,636.

The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Sept. 9 with the following headquarters rulings (ruling revocations and modifications will be detailed elsewhere in a separate article as they are announced in the Customs Bulletin):