David Hampton, deputy executive director, Trade Remedy Law Enforcement Directorate at CBP, told an audience at the Victims of Communism's annual China Forum that, over the next two years, CBP will be "reinvigorating our efforts to pursue penalties" with a team that's dedicated to administering penalties related to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.
China is investigating American clothing company PVH Group, which owns Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger and other major fashion retailers, for possible inclusion on its so-called unreliable entity list, China's Ministry of Commerce announced Sept. 24, according to an unofficial translation. China said PVH is suspected of violating “normal market trading principles” for products related to the country’s Xinjiang region, along with the “interruption of normal transactions with Chinese companies, other organizations or individuals, and adoption of discriminatory measures.”
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on common alloy aluminum sheet from South Africa (A-791-825). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers for subject merchandise entered April 1, 2022, through March 31, 2023.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from Oman (A-523-812). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers for subject merchandise entered Dec. 1, 2021, through Nov. 30, 2022.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Sept. 24 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 is amending the final results published Aug. 19 of the antidumping administrative review on softwood lumber products from Canada (A-122-857/C-122-858). The agency agreed with West Fraser Mills Ltd., which pointed out a ministerial, or unintentional, error in a calculation Commerce used in arriving at the AD rates, after the final results for setting assessments of AD/CVD on importers for subject merchandise entered Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022, were published.
On Sept. 23, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on Sept. 24:
Advocating for a bipartisan bill introduced by Southwestern lawmakers to direct certain fees to land port expansions, equipment investments and staffing was the top priority for customs brokers in town to lobby as part of the group's annual government affairs conference.
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., the top Republican on the Senate committee that covers labor, criticized the Biden-Harris administration for not intervening to prevent a strike of union dockworkers at East and Gulf coast ports. The Longshoremen's contract ends Sept. 30.