A new proposed rule from the Census Bureau could change how the agency regulates in-transit shipments that travel through the U.S. from foreign countries before being exported to another foreign destination.
Automakers, chipmakers and broad business groups asked the Bureau of Industry and Security to give their industries more time to adjust to new requirements to move supply chains out of China and report on what companies are in their connected vehicle supply chains.
The Commerce Department is amending antidumping duty rates set in its recently issued final determination on aluminum extrusions from Vietnam (A-552-837). Corrections to calculation errors result in slight increases to AD rates for all companies under investigation that received a rate separate from the Vietnam-wide entity.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP issued an Enforce and Protect Act determination, finding Guy and O'Neill Inc. (GON) evaded antidumping duties by transshipping xanthan gum from China through Israel, according to a recent agency release.
Virginia's and Maryland's senators, along with members of Congress from both states, asked President Joe Biden to direct the International Trade Commission to open a Section 201 investigation on harm to the Chesapeake Bay fisheries from a surge of crab meat imports from Venezuela.
If a reelected President Donald Trump uses the existing Section 301 tariffs program to hike tariffs on all Chinese goods by at least 60%, that's likely to survive a court challenge, said two law professors who spoke during a Washington International Trade Association webinar on the executive branch's ability to make deals and impose trade restrictions without congressional say-so.
The Commerce Department is amending the published final results of an antidumping duty administrative review on certain quartz surface products from India (A-533-889), based on a settlement reached Oct. 16 in a court case challenging those final results. Commerce calculated revised AD rates for the mandatory respondents, led by the Antique Group of companies, and for certain exporters that were not selected for individual examination. The new rates are applicable Oct. 23.
The Commerce Department is amending the final results of an antidumping duty administrative review on wood mouldings and millwork products from China (A-570-117) to correct a ministerial error in its calculation for the AD rate for entries of subject merchandise from one of the mandatory respondents in the review, Jinquan/Baiyuan -- consisting of Fujian Jinquan Trade Co., Ltd. and Baiyuan Wood Machining Co., Ltd. -- during the period Feb. 1, 2022, through Jan. 31, 2023.
The National Marine Fisheries Service has updated the Harmonized Tariff Schedule codes subject to Certification of Admissibility requirements from Mexico to align the codes with the International Trade Commission's 2024 revision to the tariff schedule, according to an Oct. 23 cargo systems message.