In the Jan. 8 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 59, No. 2), CBP published proposals to modify or revoke ruling letters concerning certain neck, face, head and arm coverings.
The Commerce Department is amending the Dec. 13 final results of an antidumping duty administrative review on pure magnesium from China (A-570-832) to correct ministerial errors regarding some calculations used to arrive at the final dumping margins. Commerce calculated a revised AD rate for the only companies under review, Tianjin Magnesium International Co., Ltd., and its affiliate Tianjin Magnesium Metal, Co., Ltd., changing it from 32.6% to 25.26%. The new rate is applicable Jan. 21.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Jan. 13-19:
President Donald Trump railed against the trade stance of the European Union, as he often has, as he talked about tariffs and trade deficits with reporters as he signed executive orders on the first day of his second term.
On his first day in office, the president directed the heads of agencies that deal with trade, tariff collection and trade remedies to:
Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, has reintroduced a bill to impose a blanket 10% additional tariff on all imports, in line with President-elect Donald Trump's campaign promises.
CBP will be requiring producers of automotive parts and vehicles to supply more data elements to prove that these goods are eligible for preferential tariff treatment under the trade agreement between the U.S., Mexico and Canada, according to an interim final rule released Jan. 16.
CBP is expanding the number of supply chain entity party types that can input Global Business Identifiers in the ACE Cargo Release from the original six optional parties or filers to include two new parties: “Intermediary” and “Source,” according to a Federal Register notice seeking approval from the Office of Management and Budget for CBP's planned changes in information collection.
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The Commerce Department is beginning an anti-circumvention inquiry on allegations that standard steel welded wire mesh made in the U.S. using low-carbon steel wire from Mexico is circumventing the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on standard steel welded wire mesh from Mexico (A-201-853/C-201-854), the agency said in a notice.