A recently issued antidumping duty order on alkyl phosphate esters from China (A-570-168) includes a “gap period” of no AD liability for subject merchandise entered June 2-5, 2025, the agency said in a notice June 25 correcting the AD order. The original AD order, issued June 11, had misstated the date that the gap period begins (see 2506110032).
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law on June 22 a state bill that requires food manufacturers selling products in the state to put warning labels on packaged food products that include 44 ingredients considered to be artificial colors, additives or certain banned chemicals, according to the bill's language.
The Commerce Department issued its final determination in its countervailing duty investigation on low speed personal transportation vehicles from China (C-570-177). Suspension of liquidation is currently not in effect for entries on or after April 5, 2025, and Commerce will require cash deposits of estimated CVD on future entries only if it issues a CVD order.
The Commerce Department has released its final determination in the antidumping duty investigation on low speed personal transportation vehicles from China (A-570-176). Cash deposit rates set in this final determination took effect June 23.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on June 23 upheld a jury's determination that importer Sigma Corp. is liable under the False Claims Act for lying about whether its imports were subject to antidumping duties. Judges Michelle Friedland and Mark Bennett said no errors of law were made against Sigma and that the federal district court, not the Court of International Trade, had jurisdiction in the case (Island Industries v. Sigma Corp., 9th Cir. # 22-55063).
The National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America and dozens of state and national-level trade groups representing shippers have signed a letter warning the heads of multiple federal agencies of potential supply chain disruptions that could result should tariff changes proceed as planned.
The U.S. is where the last substantial transformation occurred for Trimble's R980 Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver, according to a CBP notice released June 20.
CBP is preparing ACE to handle calculating estimated duties from entry summaries that might have more than two Harmonized Tariff Schedule codes attached, according to the agency's latest ACE development and deployment schedule for June.
The additional in-quota Section 232 tariff rate for British cars will be 7.5% under a deal recently concluded with the U.K., so that the combined most-favored nation and 232 tariff will be 10% as long as imports are under the 100,000 annual tariff rate quota amount, beginning seven days after the June 16 executive order is published in the Federal Register.
A bill that would create a criminal offense for "knowingly and recklessly importing high-risk agents, toxins or organisms" was introduced last week by Reps. Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, and Josh Riley, D-N.Y.