The Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) for CBP will next meet Sept. 18 remotely and in person in Washington, D.C., starting at 1 p.m. EDT, CBP said in a notice. Comments are due by Sept. 13.
CBP's Air Cargo Advanced Screening security filings will have additional codes to be completed by filers responsible for air cargo shipments originating from outside the U.S., starting in early September.
The Federal Maritime Commission this week ordered German container shipper Hamburg Sud to pay $17.6 million to OJ Commerce, an American e-commerce business, adding millions of dollars to the penalty an administrative law judge imposed last year after Hamburg retaliated against OJC for threatening to file a complaint with the FMC. The commission also appeared to adopt a broader interpretation of carrier "refusal to deal" violations.
Ocean carrier ZIM Integrated Shipping Service Ltd. and logistics firm CEVA Freight violated the Shipping Act by charging the “unreasonable” sum of $180,860 for the detention of three containers that the U.S. government temporarily seized at the Port of Charleston in South Carolina, International Lumber Imports (ILI) said in a complaint filed with the Federal Maritime Commission last week.
Nearly $43 million worth of electronics equipment bound for the U.S. from India has been detained under Uyghur Force Labor Prevention Act since last October, according to CBP data, Reuters said in an Aug. 27 report. CBP's data doesn't parse out the types of goods within each category that were detained, but solar panels may have constituted the majority of the detained electronics equipment, the report quoted sources as saying.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Aug. 27 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 ITC seeks comments by Sept. 5 on a Section 337 complaint filed by Maxell alleging imports of smart televisions from TCL and 11 of its affiliates are infringing on Maxell’s patents, the agency said in a notice released Aug. 27. In its Aug. 21 complaint, Maxell said it seeks a limited exclusion order and cease and desist order against the TCL companies.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Aug. 27 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 will retroactively suspend liquidation back to March 30, 2024, and require antidumping and countervailing duty cash deposits for exporters of ferrosilicon from Russia (A-821-838/C-821-839), it said in a notice released Aug. 27. The agency preliminary found critical circumstances exist for Russian Ferro Alloys Inc. and its affiliate RFA International LP, as well as the Russia-wide entity in the AD investigation and the "all-others" companies in the CVD investigation. Commerce will require AD/CVD cash deposits at the rate set in its preliminary determinations (see 2407020001) for any unliquidated entries on or after March 30, 2024 (i.e., 90 days prior to Commerce’s June 28 preliminary determinations).
On Aug. 26, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts (after not having posted new ones for a number of days) on the detention without physical examination of: