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The number of investigations under the Enforce and Protect Act almost doubled in fiscal year 2018, CBP said in its annual report, and the agency was able to issue final determinations for 12 investigations that year; in fiscal year 2017, it finished only one. To conduct EAPA investigations, CBP has traveled to Thailand, Vietnam, China, Malaysia, Cambodia and the Philippines. During the year, it took interim measures in six ongoing EAPA investigations to collect antidumping and countervailing duties. The entire EAPA program prevented the evasion of $50 million in AD/CVD duties during the year, the agency said.
CHICAGO -- CBP would like additional authority under the Enforce and Protect Act to go after duty evasion efforts that don't involve antidumping or countervailing duty orders, CBP Executive Assistant Commissioner for International Trade Brenda Smith said on July 23. Smith and EAC Todd Owen with the Office of Field Operations discussed enforcement efforts during a meeting with reporters at the CBP Trade Symposium. "Remedy evasion is the same as EAPA," which "is the same as antidumping evasion, is the same as misclassification, undervaluation and transshipment," Smith said.
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The Commerce Department issued antidumping duty orders on glycine from India and Japan (A-533-883, A-588-878), and a countervailing duty order on glycine from India and China (C-533-884, C-570-081).
The Treasury Department published its spring 2019 regulatory agenda for CBP. The agenda includes a new rulemaking that would amend CBP's regulations to revise the language on duty-free goods returned. The agency will try to issue an interim final rule by August this year. Specifically, the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act extended duty-free treatment to products of non-U.S. origin exported and returned to the U.S. within three years after having been exported, and created a separate tariff schedule "subheading for returned U.S. Government property allowing duty-free return of U.S. Government property without time and origin restrictions."
The Commerce Department is postponing indefinitely its final determinations in the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on glycine from Thailand (A-549-837/C-549-838), it said in an unpublished memo. Though the agency found no dumping or illegal subsidization in its preliminary AD/CV duty determinations, allegations of transshipment have recently come to light in a CBP Enforce and Protect Act AD/CVD evasion investigation covering the same period as Commerce’s AD/CV duty investigations. Those allegations call into question information submitted by the sole Thai respondent to both investigations, Newtrend Thailand, which is at the center of CBP’s evasion investigation (see 1903180021). The domestic petitioners want Commerce to reverse course and issue affirmative AD/CV duty determinations on glycine from Thailand based on penalty rates for Newtrend.
The Commerce Department issued its final determinations in the countervailing duty investigations on glycine from China (C-570-081) and India (C-533-884). Suspension of liquidation is currently not in effect for entries on or after Jan. 2, 2019, and Commerce will only require cash deposits of estimated CV duties on future entries if it issues a CV duty order.
The Commerce Department issued its final determinations in the antidumping duty investigations on glycine from India (A-533-883) and Japan (A-588-878).
Allowing CBP's updated Form 5106 section on company information to be "optional" seems to make for an insufficient implementation measure under the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act, the Southern Shrimp Alliance said in April 11 comments. "The Southern Shrimp Alliance believes that, in order to be effective, CBP must communicate out to the trade that, while ostensibly optional, an importer’s decision as to whether to provide responses to Section 3 will have a significant impact on the way in which the agency assesses the risk presented by the importer," the group said.