The Commerce Department has published the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on polyethylene film, sheet and strip (PET film) from India (C-533-825). Commerce will set final assessments of CV duties on importers for subject merchandise from two companies entered Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022. The new CVD cash deposit rate takes effect for entries from these companies on or after Dec. 30, the date these final results were published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department announced the opportunity to request administrative reviews by Jan. 31 for producers and exporters subject to 23 antidumping duty orders and 15 countervailing duty orders with anniversary dates in January.
On Dec. 30, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The IRS is proposing "substantive rules" related to excise taxes on certain sales of designated drugs by manufacturers, producers and importers during statutorily defined periods, it said in a notice released Dec. 31.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the weeks of Dec. 16-22 and 23-29:
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 Dec. 30, 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.
Correction: Speaking on the role of the customs broker as the trade industry adopts use of AI for trade compliance purposes, Lenny Feldman of Sandler Travis said that, while AI is a useful tool, "you still need the customs broker, you still need the intermediary to play a role, to manage that data and make the final decisions as to what data is going to be provided to the government agencies that enforce international trade, particularly CBP," (see 2412090068).
CBP created Harmonized System Update 2421 Dec. 30, containing 36 Automated Broker Interface (ABI) records and eight Harmonized Tariff Schedule records. HSU 2421 also contains eight end of year 484(f) records with an updated end date of Dec. 31, 2025.
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