The National Marine Fisheries Service is opening a 60-day comment period on information it collects related to fishing products restrictions.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website March 13, 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 12 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 59, No. 11), which includes a ruling notice involving the revocation of one ruling letter and revocation of treatment relating to the tariff classification of certain wheels and hubs for trucks and trailers. Also included are four Court of International Trade slip opinions and one U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decision.
Roll and Harris, a law firm specializing in customs law, put out a newsletter alerting clients that they should not assume that they can amend an entry to say that Canadian or Mexican goods qualify for USMCA if their initial entry summary didn't.
A State Department notice declaring that all agency efforts to control international trade now constitute a "foreign affairs function" of the U.S. under the Administrative Procedure Act will ultimately be subject to the discretion of the courts, trade lawyers told us.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick asked a top executive at Norsk Hydro a few weeks ago when the company would open a primary aluminum smelter.
Customs brokers and importers are still grappling with how to comply with the Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum derivatives that went into effect just after midnight on March 12 (see 2503120054).
The Federal Maritime Commission is investigating how transit constraints at several “maritime chokepoints” around the world may be affecting ocean shipping and whether those constraints have been caused by foreign governments or foreign-flagged ships. The commission is specifically looking into constraints on ships traveling through the English Channel, the Malacca Strait, the Northern Sea Passage, the Singapore Strait, the Panama Canal, the Strait of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal, it said in a Federal Register notice released March 13. It said it may hold hearings, issue subpoenas or order testimony through depositions.
The Department of Energy is proposing to withdraw a prior determination that miscellaneous gas products, which are comprised of decorative hearths and outdoor heaters, would qualify as covered products for the purposes of energy effiency standards, according to a Federal Register notice.
The State Department released a notice March 13 that says all U.S. agency “efforts” to “control … the transfer of goods, services, data, technology, and other items across the borders of the United States” are a “foreign affairs function” exempt from Administrative Procedure Act rulemaking and hearing requirements under 5 U.S.C. 553 and 554. When asked to clarify, a State Department spokesperson said: "The determination speaks for itself."