ISPs and other industry players won’t have certainty for many months, possibly several years, on whether the FCC’s order imposing new net neutrality rules will survive a court challenge, FCC and industry officials tell us. While Verizon and MetroPCS led the fight in the courts against the 2010 rules, industry officials predict this time the major trade associations may end up filing the key challenges, especially since Comcast and AT&T both have major transactions pending before the FCC.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Feb. 23 - March 1:
Recent rulings from the Court of International Trade mean CBP will be much stricter going forward on what it does and doesn’t consider a valid protest, said Carrie Owens, chief of CBP’s entry process and duty refund branch. Speaking during a panel discussion at the Georgetown Law School International Trade Update conference on Feb. 27, Owens gave a variety of advice on the protest process, including that protests need to follow the form specified by law and regulation and should be as complete as possible to give it the best chance of being approved.
MIAMI -- As countries across the globe move ahead with trade facilitation and modernization initiatives, governments can’t relent in the drive to remove paperwork from all customs and regulatory filing, said several North American and European trade logistics officials at the International Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Council for International Business symposium on Feb. 23. Automation is indispensable in those initiatives, said the officials.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Feb. 16-22:
Customs protests must strictly adhere to statutory and regulatory requirements in order to be valid, said the Court of International Trade in a Feb. 23 ruling (here). Even if it’s obvious that a document is intended as a protest, the protest is not valid unless it includes all required information in the prescribed format, said the court as it dismissed a challenge to the classification of an imported Rolls Royce because the underlying protest wasn’t valid.
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A furniture importer is currently pursuing two federal court cases related to the assessment of antidumping duties on an entry where it was incorrectly listed as importer of record, International Trade Today has learned. Following a CBP ruling that held it liable for payment of the 216.01% duty applicable under the AD duty order on wooden bedroom furniture from China (see 1501290028), Lifestyle Furniture filed suit in November at the Court of International Trade to challenge CBP’s denial of its protest. Just under a month later, Lifestyle sued the customs broker that apparently made the mistake on entry documentation, Nestor Reyes, in North Carolina Middle U.S. District Court.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Feb. 9-15:
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