The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington dismissed a lawsuit from clothing company Smart Apparel (U.S.) that accused Nordstrom of breaching a contract when it canceled orders from Smart Apparel that were suspected of being made with forced labor (Smart Apparel (U.S.) v. Nordstrom, W.D. Wash. # 23-01754).
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 March 18, 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 March 20 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 11). While it contains recent court decisions, no customs rulings are included.
Shrimp farmed and processed in India is frequently produced by forced labor, with workers in debt bondage and some workers living in employer-supplied housing where they are rarely allowed to leave, according to a new investigation from Corporate Accountability Lab.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the March 19 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):
A U.S. manufacturer seeks the imposition of new antidumping and countervailing duties on 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid from China and India, it said in petitions filed last week with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission. Commerce will now decide whether to begin AD/CVD investigations, which could result in the imposition of permanent AD/CVD orders on the herbicide, known as 2,4-D, and the assessment of AD/CVD on importers. The investigations were requested by Corteva Agriscience.
The Commerce Department finalized another new exemption for off-grid panels from antidumping and countervailing duties on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into modules, from China (A-570-979/C-570-980), it said in the final results of a changed circumstances review released March 19. Commerce confirmed its preliminary finding that “substantially all” U.S. producers of solar cells, including original petitioner American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing, don't oppose Source Global's request to create the exemption.
Ouraring and its Finland-based parent company Oura Health seek a ban on imports of smart ring wearable devices that allegedly infringe on its patents, the ITC said in a notice March 19. In a complaint filed March 13, Ouraring said India-based Ultrahuman and two of its affiliates, as well as China-based Guangdong Jiu Zhi Technology Co. Ltd. and its U.S. affiliate RingConn LLC, and France-based Circular SAS, are making smart rings that copy the patented technologies in Ouraring’s Oura Ring. The rings are used to monitor a user’s health and fitness, including physical activity, biological data and sleep. Ouraring seeks a limited exclusion order and cease and desist orders against UltraHuman, Jiu Zhi and Circular. Comments are due to the ITC by March 27.
On March 18, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of: