The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is asking for advice on how the U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council's Global Trade Challenges Working Group can enhance sustainable bilateral trade, coordinate to confront non-market policies in other countries, and more effectively counter those policies and practices.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit during oral argument on Sept. 3 strongly questioned the U.S. in a customs case on whether cookware imports from Meyer Corp. qualify for first sale treatment. Judges Sharon Prost, Todd Hughes and Tiffany Cunningham questioned the government's defense of the Court of International Trade's decision to deny Meyer first sale valuation seemingly based on an adverse inference drawn against the company for its failure to submit its parent company's financial information (Meyer Corp. v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 23-1570).
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Sept. 3, 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 issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
Digital security cameras mounted as doorbells fall under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule heading governing TV cameras and video camera recorders, according to three separate CBP rulings issued June 21 and publicly released last week.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Sept. 3 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):
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Sept. 3 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 soon will suspend liquidation and set antidumping duty cash deposit requirements for imports of paper plates from China, Thailand and Vietnam, it said in a fact sheet Aug. 30. The agency's preliminary determinations set AD rates ranging from zero to 1,039.05% for Chinese companies, from 4.23% to 73.17% for Thai companies, and from zero to 159.79% for Vietnamese companies. Suspension of liquidation is already in effect for China and Vietnam for countervailing duty purposes (see 2407020004). AD suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements for these three countries will take effect for entries on or after the date of publication of the preliminary determinations in the Federal Register, which should occur in the coming days.
On Aug. 30, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Internal Revenue Service said it is considering the addition of four chemicals to its list of taxable substances subject to the Superfund tax on imports. The agency seeks comments by Nov. 4 on petitions to add propylene glycol phenyl ether imported under tariff subheading 2909.49.1500 at a rate of $13.16/ton; propylene glycol n-propyl ether under subheading 2909.49.6000 at a rate of $10.43/ton; propylene glycol methyl ether under 2909.49.6000 at $10.58/ton; and propylene glycol methyl ether acetate under 2915.39.9000 at $8.85/ton.