The Commerce Department is amending the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on steel concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) from Mexico (A-201-844), covering the period Nov. 1, 2019, through Oct. 31, 2020, based on a recent decision in a court case challenging those final results. Commerce calculated a revised AD rate for Grupo Simec, which affected the review average rate for Grupo Acerero S.A. de C.V. (Grupo Acerero), and Sidertul S.A. de C.V. (Sidertul). The AD rate for all of the respondents changed to zero percent.
Roll and Harris, a law firm specializing in customs law, put out a newsletter alerting clients that they should not assume that they can amend an entry to say that Canadian or Mexican goods qualify for USMCA if their initial entry summary didn't.
The Commerce Department has published amended final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on passenger vehicle and light truck tires from China (A-570-016), originally published April 26, 2019, to align with a partial judgment in a court case that challenged a rate in those results.
A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit will "substantially upend" the International Trade Commission's established approach to determining whether a company's U.S. operations are part of the domestic industry, lawyers from Ropes & Gray said.
Nicholas Lamp, academic director of international law programs at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, told an audience of lawyers at Georgetown Law School that he questioned the premise of the panel he was speaking on -- that Canada and Mexico's approaches to trade with China would influence the future of USMCA.
The EU and Canada announced retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. this week, targeting billions of dollars' worth of American exports in response to what they said were unjustified global 25% steel and aluminum duties imposed by the Trump administration. Other nations also criticized the U.S. tariffs as they mulled countermeasures of their own.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the weeks of Feb. 10-16, Feb. 17-23, Feb. 24 - March 2 and March 3-9:
Two Section 232 investigations launched March 10 by the Commerce Department -- one on copper, the other on lumber -- serve as harbingers of potentially more trade activity to come, attorneys with the law firm Pillsbury said during a webinar on "DC Disrupted: Upcoming Tariffs & Trade Actions," said after notices seeking comments on the investigations had been posted.
CBP updated Harmonized System Update 2509 created on March 7 (see 2503070015). The update says that as of March 7, the temporary exclusion from the additional ad valorem IEEPA duties in place for in-transit shipments ended. Consequently, HTS 9903.01.23 is no longer available for merchandise entered for consumption, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, after 12:01 a.m. EST on March 7. All shipments that are country of origin China and Hong Kong are required to submit the 9903.01.24 tariff as well as remit payment of the additional 20% duty, unless the shipment meets the other exclusions (donation, information materials, Chapter 98).
Powdered sugar processed and packaged in Mexico using U.S.-origin refined sugar imported by Batory Foods and Rafi Industries is not subject to the agreements suspending antidumping and countervailing duties on sugar from Mexico (A-201-845/C-201-846), the Commerce Department announced in a Feb. 28 scope ruling. The department also recommended imposing a certification requirement for the imported sugar.