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Stakeholders Make Case to Administration for GSP Travel Goods Expansion
October 6, 2016 |Top News

Foreign governments and apparel industry members submitted comments to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative on why certain travel goods made in advanced developing countries meet the USTR's four criteria for inclusion in the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) benefits package. Among other filers, the embassies of Sri Lanka (here) and Paraguay (here) said expanding GSP duty benefits to imported travel goods for beneficiary developing countries (BDCs) would not only increase their apparel exports to the U.S., but would also promote social benefits including human trafficking prevention and female access to healthcare and education. The comments were in response to USTR's request for additional public input (see 1608240018) after deferring GSP decisions for additions of travel goods produced in BDCs (see 1607060014) . The interagency Trade Policy Staff Committee GSP Subcommittee is scheduled to hear public testimony from interested stakeholders Oct. 18.

Topics:Customs duty, Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA)
3rd Circuit Finds Marking Duties Subject to Whistleblower Cases, Reviving Suit From 'Fraud Investigation' Company
October 6, 2016 |Top News

False Claims Act whistleblower lawsuits may be filed for failure to pay marking duties on unmarked or improperly marked imports, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit said Oct. 5 as it resurrected a whistleblower lawsuit filed by a company founded to investigate customs fraud (here). Reversing the dismissal of Customs Fraud Investigations’ (CFI) lawsuit against pipe fitting importer Victaulic by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in September 2014 (see 1504290070), the Appeals Court sent the case back down with instructions to allow CFI to amend its complaint to include new evidence of Victaulic’s alleged fraud.

Topics:Customs duty, CBP CROSS Rulings, Customs fraud whistleblowers
CIT Amends Rules on Interrogatories, Physical Samples, AD/CVD Joint Appendix
September 26, 2016 |Penalties and Courts

The Court of International Trade on Sept. 21 approved changes to its rules governing interrogatories and a new form for filing physical samples as evidence, it said (here). Other changes would also encourage parties to antidumping and countervailing duty cases to file a single joint appendix containing the parts of the administrative records cited by all parties. The amendments take effect Oct. 3.

Topics:Court of International Trade