The Commerce Department is beginning new antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on hard empty capsules from Brazil, China, India and Vietnam, it said in a fact sheet Nov. 14. The underlying petition was filed in October (see 2410290025). The International Trade Commission is scheduled to make its preliminary injury determinations by Dec. 9. These AD/CVD investigations will continue only if the ITC finds injury. International Trade Today will provide more details upon publication of the initiation notices in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department is setting new countervailing duty cash deposit requirements for imports of vanillin from China (C-570-173), after finding subsidization of Chinese producers in the preliminary determination of its CVD investigation. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after Nov. 18, the date that the preliminary determination is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the following voluntary recalls Nov. 14:
On Nov. 14, 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:
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 Nov. 14, 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 has released its Nov. 13 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 45). While it contains recent court decisions, no customs rulings are included.
NEW YORK -- The Consumer Product Safety Commission's intent to require information from certificates of compliance to be filed in ACE next year is alarming brokers, according to Erin Williamson, vice president of customs brokerage at GEODIS USA.
DETROIT -- Cindy Allen, owner of consultancy firm Trade Force Multiplier, said she believes some of the initiatives in the 21st Century Customs Framework bills are useful -- such as simplifying CBP's process for seizures -- but that overall, the focus is too heavy on enforcement.
Trade attorneys continue to wait and wonder what kind of tariff changes will come next year, with one observer using a tariff slide that said "Tariff Armageddon."