The Commerce Department issued its final determination in its countervailing duty investigation on pea protein from China (C-570-155). Suspension of liquidation is currently not in effect for entries on or after April 16, 2024, and Commerce will require cash deposits of estimated CV duties on future entries only if it issues a CV duty order.
The Commerce Department has released its final determination in the antidumping duty investigation on pea protein from China (A-570-154). Cash deposit rates set in this final determination take effect July 5.
On July 2, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The FDA is banning the use of brominated vegetable oil in food, it said in a final rule. The agency is revoking the authorization for the use of BVO as an ingredient to stabilize flavoring oils in fruit-flavored beverages, which was the only use allowed. “Few beverages in the U.S. contain BVO,” the FDA said in an industry update. The final rule takes effect Aug. 2, but compliance with the ban isn’t required until one year later.
The USDA Foreign Agricultural Service published a list of updated quantity trigger levels and applicable periods for products that may be subject to additional import duties under the safeguard provisions of the World Trade Organization Agreement on Agriculture.
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on July 3:
The U.K. must reassess whether it should investigate cotton imports from China suspected of being made with forced labor after an appellate court ruled last month that the country’s National Crime Agency wrongly decided against opening the probe.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website July 2, 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:
CBP has released its July 3 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 26). It contains two notices of final determinations, one on UPanelS LED display panels and another on thermal printers. There also is a proposed modification of four ruling letters relating to the tariff classification of certain composite goods with the essential character of permanent magnets.