The Commerce Department made final affirmative antidumping duty determinations that imports of thermoformed molded fiber products from China (A-570-182) and Vietnam (A-552-845) are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will continue for entries on or after May 12, the date that the preliminary determinations were published in the Federal Register. Cash deposit rates set in these final determinations take effect Sept. 30.
On Sept. 29, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
House Ways and Means Committee ranking member Rep. Richard Neal. D-Mass., Trade Subcommittee ranking member Rep. Linda Sánchez, D-Calif., and fellow committee member Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., said on Sept. 30 that letting the African Growth and Opportunity Act expire is "a grave mistake."
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Sept. 22-28:
The U.S. opened a customs penalty suit last week against wire garment hanger importer LGA Trading and its director, Galo Goya, at the Court of International Trade, seeking over $3.1 million as a penalty for negligence and over $1.9 million in unpaid duties (United States v. LGA Trading, CIT # 25-00214).
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 Sept. 26-29, 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 begun a three-phase process to modernize how the agency handles manifests in ACE, according to September's ACE Development and Deployment Schedule.
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The likelihood of the Supreme Court striking down President Donald Trump's tariffs issued under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act is a "coin flip," various attorneys said during a Sept. 30 webinar hosted by The Budget Lab, a policy research center at Yale University. Scott Lincicome, vice president of general economics at the Cato Institute, an amicus in the IEEPA tariffs cases, noted a "very clear split" among trade lawyers and constitutional lawyers as to where the Supreme Court will come out on this issue.