The Court of International Trade in a decision made public Oct. 23 sustained the Commerce Department's rejection of eight Section 232 steel tariff exclusion requests from importer Seneca Foods Corp. on its tin mill product entries. Judge Gary Katzmann said the rejections were backed by substantial evidence and in line with agency practice.
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 Oct. 23, 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's Machinery Center of Excellence and Expertise conducted targeting efforts resulting in the seizure of infant products valued at just over $61,000 that contained high lead paint content and choking hazards, the agency announced Oct. 23. In July, the center targeted a shipment with cargo descriptions of luggage carts, metal furniture mountings and “other” seats headed for Memphis. Upon inspecting the shipment, import specialists and Port of Memphis CBP officers found the items were strollers, swings and highchairs for infants.
In September, CBP flagged 425 shipments, valued at more than $65 million, for suspected use of forced labor, the agency said in a monthly update this week. This represents an increase, in terms of total value, from August, when CBP stopped 400 shipments valued at more than $53 million for the same reason (see 2409170009).
Rope-coiled decorative baskets imported by Kohl's are generally classified as made-up textile articles, rather than as ropes, and an especially large version of one of the baskets is big enough to be classified as furniture, CBP said in a Sept. 27 customs ruling.
CBP will bolster a number of existing initiatives in the coming months aimed at preventing the import of products made with forced labor, said Katie Woodson, assistant director within the operations and forced labor divisions of CBP's Office of Trade, during a panel on forced labor at last week's Western Cargo Conference.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Oct. 23 on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on heavy walled rectangular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Mexico (A-201-847). In the final results of this review, Commerce may set assessment rates for subject merchandise from 12 companies entered September 2022 through August 2023.
The Commerce Department is amending the published final results of an antidumping duty administrative review on certain quartz surface products from India (A-533-889), based on a settlement reached Oct. 16 in a court case challenging those final results. Commerce calculated revised AD rates for the mandatory respondents, led by the Antique Group of companies, and for certain exporters that were not selected for individual examination. The new rates are applicable Oct. 23.