While apparel industry groups have gripes with USMCA, they prefer it to be preserved as it currently stands rather than risk the uncertainty of renegotiation.
House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., said Dec. 4 that he is seeking several changes to a Russia sanctions and tariffs bill that lawmakers are trying to get through Congress this month.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Dec. 3, 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 issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Business Roundtable and other major voices of business said Section 232 tariffs applied to Canadian and Mexican goods that meet USMCA eligibility are a clear violation of the pact, and need to end. The business groups, which opened the second day of an Interagency hearing on what the U.S. should prioritize in next year's USMCA review, also emphasized how imports from and exports to Mexico and Canada are essential for domestic manufacturing.
The Court of International Trade erred in ruling that importer Blue Sky The Color of Imagination's planning calendars are diaries under Harmonized Tariff Schedule subheading 4820.10.2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held on Dec. 4. Judges Alan Lourie, William Bryson and Raymond Chen said the trade court violated the principle of stare decisis by skirting the CAFC's prior interpretation of the term "diary."
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Dec. 3 Federal Register on the following antidumping and countervailing duty injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The International Trade Commission seeks comments by Dec. 12 on a Section 337 complaint alleging that imports of construction vehicles infringe patents held by Doosan Bobcat North America, it said in a notice to be published Dec. 4 in the Federal Register. According to the complaint, Bobcat is seeking a limited exclusion order and cease and desist orders against Caterpillar, Inc., to bar from entry "certain skid-steer loaders, compact track loaders, excavators, wheel loaders, dozers, and components thereof" that violate their patents. Bobcat said that its products provide "significant improvements" to construction equipment, including to "usability, safety, and efficiency, among other things."
On Dec. 2, 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:
Specialty crop interests testifying at the first of three days of hearings on UMSCA Dec. 3 disagreed on whether duty-free access for Mexican imports should continue, and protectionists' arguments were echoed by Global Trade Watch.