The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Feb. 3-9:
International Trade Today is providing readers with some of the top stories for Feb. 3-7 in case they were missed.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on wooden bedroom furniture from China (A-570-890). Commerce continued to find the only four companies remaining under review -- Eurosa (Kunshan) Co., Ltd. and its affiliate Eurosa Furniture Co., (PTE) Ltd.; Shenyang Shining Dongxing Furniture Co., Ltd.; Sunforce Furniture (Hui-Yang) Co., Ltd. and its affiliates Sun Fung Wooden Factory, Sun Fung Co., Shin Feng Furniture Co., Ltd. and Stupendous International Co., Ltd.; and Yeh Brothers World Trade Inc. -- had no exports of subject merchandise to the U.S. during the period under review. As a result, subject merchandise from these four companies will continue to enter at the AD rate set in the most recent previous review, and any entries filed with their case numbers entered Jan. 1, 2018, through Dec. 31, 2018, will be liquidated at the China-wide rate.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Jan. 27 - Feb. 2:
International Trade Today is providing readers with some of the top stories for Jan. 27-31 in case they were missed.
The following is a selection of articles that appeared in International Trade Today in 2019 covering ruling letters. CBP frequently publishes rulings months after they are issued, so these articles are included based on the dates the articles were published, rather than the date the ruling letter was issued.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Jan. 20-26:
The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control reached a $1.125 million settlement with Eagle Shipping International for 36 violations of U.S. sanctions against Burma, OFAC said in a Jan. 27 notice. The ship management company, which has headquarters in Connecticut, illegally transported “sea sand” for Myawaddy Trading Limited, a company on OFAC’s Specially Designated Nationals List, the notice said. Eagle Shipping allegedly provided transportation services from Burma to Singapore for a “land reclamation project” for Myawaddy that involved transactions worth about $1.8 million.
Recent CBP regulations limiting the amount of drawback that can be claimed on excise taxes look set to be invalidated, after the Court of International Trade issued a decision Jan. 24 that found those limits contradict the legal framework created by Congress for drawback and legislative intent to expand the duty savings program.
A class action lawsuit filed at the Court of International Trade Jan. 16 could result in billions of dollars in refunds to all importers that have paid Section 232 tariffs on steel products, though its chances of success are still unclear, and any payment is a long way off, lawyers say.