The Court of International Trade denied Seko Customs Brokerage's bids for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against its temporary suspension from the Entry Type 86 Test and Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism programs. Judge Claire Kelly found Seko already received all the relief it sought when it was conditionally reinstated into the programs and told why it was originally suspended.
Industry players and a law professor argued that the International Trade Commission's power to stop imports that are found to be infringing on domestic patents has become a form of blackmail by foreign companies against domestic companies, and that its original reason for being is no longer true.
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The Commerce Department issued its final determinations in the antidumping duty investigations on mattresses from India (A-533-919), Kosovo (A-803-001), Mexico (A-201-859) and Spain (A-469-826). Cash deposit rates set in these final determinations take effect July 22.
The Treasury Department published its spring 2024 regulatory agenda for CBP. The agenda continues to list a proposed rule to amend CBP’s regulations on the entry of “certain low-value shipments not exceeding $800 that are eligible for an administrative exemption from duty and tax.”
The Hyshield brand plant fertilizer produced by British Columbia-based Sipco Innovations ultimately should have China as its country of origin for marking purposes. However, the country of origin for the Hyshield product is Canada for Section 301 purposes, and it qualifies for preferential tariff treatment under USMCA, according to a May 8 ruling addressed to CBP’s Pharmaceuticals, Health and Chemicals Center of Excellence and Expertise in Newark, New Jersey, and recently released by CBP.
CBP has released its July 17 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 28). Among a number of general notices published in the bulletin are a notice of issuance of a final determination concerning a DisplayPort male-to-female video adapter (see 2407010033), and a notice of the revocation of nine ruling letters and the revocation of treatment relating to the tariff classification of wireless headphone sets from China, Mexico and an undisclosed country of origin (see 2404240061).
Dan Ujczo, senior counsel in Thompson Hine's trade practice, said he expects a second Biden or Trump administration to say it won't authorize USMCA to continue for another 16 years in 2026, when the trade pact is up for review.
The Commerce Department is finalizing antidumping duties on importers of certain hydrofluorocarbon blends from Turkey and China. The agency found in its final determinations in a trio of anti-circumvention inquiries that imports of the blends from Turkey and China are circumventing the AD order on hydrofluorocarbon blends from China (A-570-028).
The Commerce Department is setting new certification requirements for importers of wooden cabinets and vanities from Malaysia and Vietnam, after finding cabinets and vanities made under several production scenarios are covered by the scope of antidumping and countervailing duties on wooden cabinets and vanities from China (A-570-106/C-570-107).