Forbes reported that Walmart's online platform and Amazon have listings for canned tomatoes or tomato paste from the brands Nina, Gino and Zehrat Safa, and it said those brands are produced by Heibei Tomato Industry. That Chinese company says on "its website that 'raw materials come from Xinjiang,'" the article said.
The Federal Maritime Commission may need to change the way it adjudicates emergency surcharge waivers requested by carriers, at least one shipping industry official said during an informal Feb. 7 FMC hearing on Red Sea shipping disruptions.
Trade groups representing importers of motor vehicles are asking the Interagency Autos Committee to advocate for allowing used cars made during the NAFTA years to enter duty free if those vehicles qualified for NAFTA benefits, and to make it easier to prove that cars built since July 1, 2020, qualify for USMCA tariff benefits.
CBP is now accepting applications to become approved accreditors of customs broker continuing education activities under a recent final rule that requires brokers to complete 36 hours of continuing education every three years to maintain their licenses (see 2306220036).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Feb. 6 on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department on Feb. 6 published the preliminary results of its antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on forged steel fluid end blocks from Italy (A-475-840/C-475-841). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set AD and CVD assessment rates for subject merchandise for the companies under review entered Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on forged steel fluid end blocks from Germany (A-428-847/C-428-848). Commerce preliminarily calculated an AD rate of 19.96%, and a CVD rate of 2.54%, for BGH Edelstahl Siegen GmbH, the only company still covered by each review. Any changes to BGH's cash deposit rates would take effect on the publication date of the final results of each review. Once Commerce issues its final results of the AD review, the agency will assess AD at importer-specific rates for entries of subject merchandise from BHG entered Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022, it said. The agency also will determine importer assessments for entries in calendar year 2022 in the final results if its CVD review.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on thermal paper from South Korea (A-580-911). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers of subject merchandise entered between May 12, 2021, and Oct. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on steel nails from Malaysia (A-557-816). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered July 2021 through June 2022.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on strontium chromate from France (A-427-830). Commerce set an AD rate of zero percent for Societe Nouvelle des Couleurs Zinciques, the only company under review. Commerce will instruct CBP to liquidate subject merchandise from SNCZ entered Nov. 1, 2021, through Oct. 31, 2022, without regard to AD, it said. The new AD duty cash deposit rate for SNCZ takes effect Feb. 6, the date of publication of these final results in the Federal Register.