Former House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, who was a Republican representative from Michigan, told a think tank audience that the lame duck session of the current Congress is likely to be consumed with government funding negotiations, and that leadership is unlikely to put a vote on the Generalized System of Preferences benefits program on the calendar, no matter its logic, unless members of both legislative bodies actively lobby the leaders of his former committee and the Senate Finance Committee.
The Commerce Department intends to end antidumping duties on barium chloride from China (A-570-007) and countervailing duties on the same product from India C-533-909), it said a notice announcing the initiation and preliminary results of a changed circumstances review. Honeywell requested the review with no objection from the original petitioner in the case, Chemical Products Corporation, which is "ceasing" domestic production of barium chloride. If Commerce decides to revoke the order in the final results of its changed circumstances review, revocation of each order will take effect beginning "on or after the day following the last day of the period covered by the most recently completed administrative review of the Orders."
In the Sept. 11 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 36), CBP published a proposal to revoke ruling letters concerning sauces, and certain laminated fabrics and polyurethane-coated weft knit fabric materials from China.
TPG Pressure, a U.S. supplier of construction equipment and services that accused U.S.-based Omni Logistics in 2022 of charging unsubstantiated and unlawful demurrage fees (see 2212020027), isn't entitled to compensation, an administrative law judge ruled last week.
CBP has a "reasonable suspicion" that Fort Lauderdale-based JBS Trading is evading antidumping duties on xanthan gum from China ( A-570-985), it said as it annnounced that the company is under an Enforce and Protect Act investigation. The agency alleges that when JBS Trading imported China-origin xanthan gum into the U.S., it undervalued them at the time of entry, thereby failing to pay adequate cash deposits associated with the AD order, according to a Sept. 13 release.
The administration rebranded two pending rulemaking processes and revived one that was abandoned in 2021 to address the compliance risks of de minimis shipments as well as shrink the volume of direct-to-consumer imports.
Imports from China of electric vehicles, EV batteries, solar cells and wafers, face masks, needles and syringes, critical minerals and steel and aluminum will all be hiked Sept. 27, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced Sept. 13, as part of a longer-term modification of Section 301 duties.
Tariffs on imports from China of electric vehicles, EV batteries, solar cells and wafers, face masks, needles and syringes, critical minerals and steel and aluminum will go up Sept. 27, with more Section 301 tariff hikes planned for Jan. 1, 2025, and Jan. 1, 2026.
CBP has released its Sept. 11 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 36), which includes the following ruling actions:
Monishkumar Kirankumar Doshi Shah, who owned jewelry companies in New York City , pleaded guilty Sept. 10 to leading a scheme to "illegally evade customs duties for more than $13.5 million of jewelry imports" into the U.S., the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey announced. Shah, a resident of Jersey City, New Jersey, and Mumbai, also admitted to illicitly processing over $10.3 million through an "unlicensed money transmitting business."