A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Sept. 17, 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 is setting new requirements for imports of ship-to-shore cranes pursuant to upcoming changes to Section 301 tariffs on the cranes recently announced by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, according to a Sept. 18 cargo systems message from the agency.

In the Sept. 11 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 36), CBP published a proposal to revoke ruling letters concerning sauces, and certain laminated fabrics and polyurethane-coated weft knit fabric materials from China.

CBP posted the following documents for the Sept. 18 Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) meeting:

As the House Ways and Means Committee discusses moving toward a proposal closer to the Senate Finance Committee chairman's bill to restrict de minimis, the top Republican on the Finance Committee is not publicly opposing the core ideas of that bill -- removing apparel and footwear from eligibility from all countries, and not allowing goods subject to Section 301 tariffs to enter duty-free.

Michaela Chen, a former senior trade adviser with the EU’s delegation in the U.S., is joining the National Foreign Trade Council’s board of directors, she announced on LinkedIn. Chen currently works as the senior director for international affairs at medical device firm BD.

The American Apparel and Footwear Association and the Fair Labor Association told the interim leader of Bangladesh that they appreciate the goverment's plan to align labor laws with International Labor Organization standards, but asked him to institute an annual minimum wage review for garment, footwear and travel goods workers, including the voices of unions, workers and employers.

The National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America, along with more than 175 trade organizations, have asked President Joe Biden to urge the United States Maritime Alliance and the International Longshoremen’s Association to resume negotiations for a new labor agreement before Oct. 1, the date that ILA members might go on strike at container terminals at East Coast and Gulf Coast ports.

Economists at the Peterson Institute for International Economics said that if the U.S. were to move all Chinese imports into Column 2 of the tariff schedule, removing permanent normal trade relations status, it would increase inflation by four-tenths of a percent if China were to retaliate, and it would hurt manufacturing the most -- the area politicians most want to protect.

The International Trade Commission published notices in the Sept. 17 Federal Register on the following AD/CVD injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):