The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on Aug. 21:
The Bureau of Industry and Security has sent a rule for interagency review that could propose new import restrictions on certain Chinese connected vehicle parts. BIS sent the proposed rule to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Aug. 20. An agency official in July said BIS was planning to release the rule sometime this month (see 2407170043 and 2408050044), building on an advance notice of proposed rulemaking released in February (see 2402290034).
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Aug. 12-18:
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 Aug. 20, 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 has released its Aug. 21 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 33), which includes the following ruling action:
CBP has launched an investigation under the Enforce and Protect Act (EAPA) on Thompson Aluminum Casting Company Inc.’s alleged evasion of antidumping and countervailing duties by importing magnesium metal from China via Turkey.
As USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service prepares for the Dec. 1 enforcement of the seventh phase of Lacey Act import declaration requirements (see 2405300052), officials already are eyeing the challenges that may come in implementing Phase VIII.
Republican attorneys general from 21 states are asking Temu how it certifies that products sold on its website "are not made with slave labor," among other questions about Americans' consumer data.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Aug. 20 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):