CBP has updated guidance further defining who is responsible for ensuring the truthfulness of origin documents such as origin declarations, origin statements and certification of origin documents.
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President-elect Donald Trump will nominate billionaire businessman Howard Lutnick to be Commerce Department secretary, Trump announced Nov. 19. "He will lead our tariff and trade agenda, with additional direct responsibility for the Office of the United States Trade Representative," Trump said in a statement.
With just 14 days in session scheduled for the House of Representatives before the end of the year, Ways and Means Committee members are not expressing optimism that a renewal of the Generalized System of Preferences benefits program will be one of the items that gets a vote this Congress.
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, in its annual report to Congress, said that ending de minimis for all e-commerce is one of its top 10 recommendations, and said that if Congress passes such a law, it should provide CBP adequate resources to implement and enforce the change.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Nov. 18 Federal Register on the following AD/CVD 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 comment by Nov. 26 on a Section 337 complaint filed by Husky Injection Molding Systems against Ningbo Aosheng Mold Co. for allegedly infringing patents held by Husky on molding products, the ITC said in a notice published Nov. 18. According to the complaint, Husky is seeking a permanent limited exclusion order against Ningbo Aosheng and its subsidiaries, barring "certain mold products, cavity insert products, and molding apparatus products for injection molding machines and products containing these components," from entry. Ningbo Aosheng didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Nov. 18 on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on certain hot-rolled steel flat products from South Korea (A-580-883/C-580-884). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set AD assessment rates for subject merchandise for the companies under review entered Oct. 1, 2022, through Sept. 30, 2023, and CVD assessment rates for entries Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department is amending the final results, published Oct. 17, of its antidumping duty administrative review on certain new pneumatic off-the-road tires from India (A-533-869) to correct a ministerial error in the calculation of the duty rates for a mandatory respondent and for 12 companies not selected for individual review. The agency calculated new AD cash deposit rates for the 13 companies, with slight changes to the original final calculations. These final results, effective Nov. 18, will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers for entries March 1, 2022, through Feb. 28, 2023.