The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements is adding a double-knit jacquard fabric to the "short supply list" in Annex 3.25 of the Dominican Republic-Central America-United Sates Free Trade Agreement for items not commercially available in a timely manner, it said in a notice. Lacoste requested the additions in December. The fabric, classifiable under Harmonized Tariff Schedule subheading 6006.33, is being added in unrestricted quantities. Under short supply provisions of CAFTA-DR, fibers, yarns and fabrics listed in Annex 3.25 are provided with tariff preferences under the trade agreement.
The National Marine Fisheries Service is proposing editorial changes to the regulations for its Seafood Inspection Program that it says “will lead to increased uniformity of and efficiencies associated with inspections, while retaining the reliability and validity of inspection results.”
The Court of International Trade on April 24 sustained CBP's finding on remand that importer Columbia Aluminum Products didn't evade the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on aluminum extrusions from China. But Judge Timothy Stanceu rejected Columbia's claim that CBP needed to immediately terminate the interim measures issued under the Enforce and Protect Act after reversing its original evasion finding.
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 April 23, 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 April 24 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 16), which includes the following ruling actions:
In the April 24 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 16), CBP published a proposal to revoke ruling letters concerning wireless headphone sets from China, Mexico and an undisclosed country.
A career staffer in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative whose portfolio includes the auto industry told an audience of auto industry supply chain professionals that it's likely the U.S. will be talking with Mexico about the increased foreign direct investment from Chinese companies manufacturing auto parts or, potentially, assembling vehicles, in Mexico.
A group of U.S. solar panel producers is seeking new antidumping and countervailing duty orders on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells and modules from the same four Southeast Asian countries that Commerce recently found were circumventing AD/CVD on solar cells from China (see 2308180044).
Katherine White, an international trade policy adviser for Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee, has been chosen by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to be its chief textiles and apparel negotiator. The announcement means the role is returning to a political appointee role, rather than a career staff role.