The International Trade Commission seeks comments by Dec. 15 on a Section 337 complaint alleging that imports of bicycle trainers infringe patents held by Wahoo Fitness, it said in a notice published Dec. 5 in the Federal Register. According to the complaint, Wahoo is seeking a limited exclusion order and cease and desist orders against JetBlack Cycling of Australia, to bar from entry "certain bicycle trainers and components thereof" that violate their patents. Wahoo said that its products are "devices that allow cyclists to ride their bicycle indoors."
The Commerce Department is set to begin administrative reviews for certain firms subject to antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders with September anniversary dates. Producers and exporters subject to administrative reviews on products from China or Vietnam must submit their separate rate certifications or applications on or about Dec. 22 in order to avoid being assigned high China-wide or Vietnam-wide rates.
On Dec. 4, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts (after not having posted new ones for a number of days) on the detention without physical examination of:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices Dec. 5:
Steel interests, steelworkers and aluminum interests mostly said that 50% tariffs on steel and aluminum should remain for Canadian and Mexican exports even after upcoming USMCA review, with exceptions among some aluminum witnesses and the Mexican steel industry.
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, speaking at a business event Dec. 4, said that the U.S. doesn't want to confront China in concert with allies right now.
Almost 75 House members, from both parties, asked the U.S. trade representative to hold Canada accountable for not meeting its dairy commitments under USMCA. The U.S. already brought two panels against Canada over the issue of its tariff rate quota administration, and while it won some arguments in the first dispute, Canada's fixes were ruled adequate in the second (see 2311240002).
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Dec. 4, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.
CBP recently created Harmonized System Update 2541 containing seven Automated Broker Interface records and three Harmonized Tariff Schedule records. HSU 2541 contains the updates pursuant to the recent Brazil IEEPA reciprocal executive order and the updates pursuant to the China IEEPA reciprocal executive order. The tariffs were issued by the president under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA.