CBP recently held that a teleprompter base is properly classified as an article of aluminum rather than as a part of an electrical machine, upholding an August 2022 ruling after an importer requested reconsideration.
Matt Cronin, former chief investigative counsel for the House Select Committee on China, has joined venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz as a senior national security adviser, he announced on LinkedIn. He left his job on Capitol Hill earlier this month (2410160022).
The Drug Enforcement Administration is permanently placing the synthetic benzimidazole-opioids butonitazene, flunitazene and metodesnitazene in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, it said in a final rule. The substances had already been temporarily listed in Schedule I since 2022 (see 2204110029). The final rule takes effect Oct. 25.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Oct. 25 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):
China Disposable Aluminum Containers: Prelim CVD Cash Deposit Rates Take Effect, Retroactive for All
The Commerce Department is setting new countervailing duty cash deposit requirements for imports of disposable aluminum containers, pans, trays, and lids from China (C-570-171) after finding illegal subsidization of Chinese producers in the preliminary determination of its CVD investigation. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements take retroactive effect as of July 30, 2024, due to Commerce's finding of critical circumstances for all Chinese companies.
The Commerce Department is amending antidumping duty rates set in its recently issued final determination on aluminum extrusions from Vietnam (A-552-837). Corrections to calculation errors result in slight increases to AD rates for all companies under investigation that received a rate separate from the Vietnam-wide entity.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the following voluntary recalls Oct. 24:
On Oct. 24, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Commerce Department on Oct. 25 released its quarterly update to its annual list of foreign-government subsidies on imported articles of cheese subject to an in-quota rate of duty, for the period Jan. 1 - March 31, 2024. The agency again found that only Canada is providing subsidies, in the form of export assistance.
The Singaporean corporations that owned and operated the vessel that destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore will pay $101,980,000 to settle the government's civil claim against the companies for "costs borne in responding" to the bridge's collapse, DOJ announced on Oct. 24. The U.S. sought over $103 million under the Rivers and Harbors Act, Oil Pollution Act and general maritime law (see 2409190042). DOJ said the money will go to the U.S. Treasury and various federal agencies "directly affected" by the collision or involved in the response. The settlement doesn't include costs for reconstructing the bridge, since those efforts will be led by the State of Maryland (In the Matter of the Petition of Grace Ocean Private Limited, D. Md. # 24-00941).