CBP will begin requiring trade community users to identify the "subject company" whenever a report is run or scheduled in ACE Reports starting on May 16, the agency said in a CSMS message May 6. There will be a phased roll-out through August. The first universe affected is the Importer Security Filing (ISF). All existing scheduled reports will need to be updated after this change has taken effect or the scheduled reports will fail, CBP said. CBP will have a pre-deployment call on May 10 at 1 p.m. EDT.
The Mediterranean Shipping Company denied allegations by the Federal Maritime Commission that it knowingly violated U.S. shipping laws, calling a proposed $63.2 million FMC penalty "excessive and unlawful.”
Automakers and their trade groups cautioned the Bureau of Industry and Security to tailor its restrictions narrowly -- and allow a phase-in -- if they want manufacturers to stop buying information technology components from China for cars with advanced features, including electric cars.
The International Trade Commission is beginning a Section 337 investigation to consider GoPro's allegations that cameras from Arashi Vision and its U.S. affiliate, which does business as Insta360, are infringing on its patents (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1400), the ITC said in a notice released May 3. GoPro's March 29 complaint said Insta360’s One X, One R, One R 1-inch, One X2, One RS, One RS 1-inch 360, X3, Go 3, Ace and Ace Pro copy GoPro’s patented technologies used in its Hero and Max lines of products (see 2404040013). The ITC will consider whether to issue a limited exclusion order and cease and desist orders banning importation and sale of infringing cameras from Arashi Vision and its affiliate.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register May 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):
When the Commerce Department published its final determination in the antidumping duty investigation on paper shopping bags from Turkey (A-489-849) on March 18 (see 2403180061), it said in a correction notice, a company was listed in the rate table for the 47.56% AD rate that shouldn't have been there: Umur Basim.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on common alloy aluminum sheet from Turkey (A-489-839/C-489-840). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set AD assessment rates for subject merchandise for the companies under review entered April 1, 2022, through March 31, 2023, and CVD assessment rates for entries during calendar year 2022.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on wooden cabinets and vanities and components thereof from China (A-570-106/C-570-107). In the final results of these reviews, Commerce will set AD assessment rates for subject merchandise for the companies under review entered April 1, 2022, through March 31, 2023, and CVD assessment rates for entries Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on tapered roller bearings from China (A-570-601). Commerce preliminarily found that Shanghai Tainai Bearing Co., Ltd. (Tainai) had no shipments during the review period. But Tainai remains under review until final results. If it continues this finding in the final results of this review, Tainai's AD cash deposit rate won't change as a result of this review, and any entries under its case number during the period June 1, 2022, through May 31, 2023 will be liquidated at the all-others rate.
The Commerce Department will soon suspend liquidation and impose antidumping duty cash deposit requirements on imports of aluminum extrusions from Colombia, Ecuador, India, Italy, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam, and will also require AD cash deposits on aluminum extrusions from Indonesia, Mexico and Turkey, as well as on additional types of aluminum extrusions from China, it said in a fact sheet issued May 2 announcing its preliminary determinations in the AD investigations.