As seen in recent rulings and CBP audits on first sale, CBP is asking for more information supporting importers' claims of bona fide sales and arms' length sales, Kelly Nelson, managing director of tax, trade and customs at KPMG, said during a Sept. 25 webinar.
The U.S. is likely to impose more trade controls to push Chinese chips and other components out of American technologies, which could raise costs and make managing supply chains even more challenging, technology policy analysts said this week.
Sureties that provide importers with customs bonds say that they're able to handle covering the potentially significantly higher amounts of duties that importers may owe because of tariff rate increases, according to two companies interviewed by International Trade Today.
The Commerce Department is amending the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on heavy-walled rectangular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Mexico (A-201-847) covering the period Sept. 1, 2022, through Aug. 31, 2023, that were published July 24, to correct a ministerial error in a calculation for one mandatory respondent to the review, which results in a slightly lower AD cash deposit rate for the respondent, Maquilacero S.A. de C.V. (Commerce's notice of amended final results mistakenly says the final results were published June 24.)
The Court of International Trade held that Section 1318(a) of the Trade Act of 1930, which lets the president grant duty-free treatment to certain goods "for use in emergency relief work," doesn't cover solar cells and modules. As a result, Judge Timothy Reif vacated the Commerce Department's duty "pause" on collection of antidumping duties and countervailing duties on solar cells and modules from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam that were set to be collected from the four countries due to an anti-circumvention proceeding.
Although CBP has provided guidance on how to file entries for steel and aluminum derivatives under the Section 232 tariffs, some trade community members are still unclear about how to determine the value of the steel or aluminum content in more complex situations, according to trade attorney George Tuttle, speaking on an Aug. 27 webinar.
Importer Cozy Comfort filed its opening brief at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Aug. 25, arguing that the Court of International Trade was wrong to find that the company's product, The Comfy, is a pullover and not a blanket (Cozy Comfort v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 25-1889).
CBP's CTPAT program has published an alert outlining how the trade community can be vigilant against illegal transshipping. Although the document is dated July 16, it was posted just last week on CBP's website.
The Court of International Trade on Aug. 26 vacated the National Marine Fisheries Service's comparability findings on New Zealand's West Coast North Island multispecies set-net and trawl fisheries, though the court declined to compel NMFS to issue an import ban on fish and fish products from these fisheries under the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA).
The Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force will be scrutinizing five additional sectors for forced labor violations: caustic soda, copper, jujubes, lithium and steel, according to an Aug. 19 DHS report.