The Commerce Department made preliminary affirmative antidumping duty determinations that imports of melamine from Germany (A-428-852), India (A-533-924), Japan (A-588-882), the Netherlands (A-421-817) and Trinidad and Tobago (A-274-810) are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The agency will generally impose AD cash deposit requirements on entries of subject merchandise beginning on Sept. 24, 2024, though cash deposit requirements take effect retroactively for all some Indian, Japanese and Trinidadian companies, beginning on June 26, 2024.
On Sept. 20, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on Sept. 23:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Sept. 20, 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 released the quarterly IRS interest rates used to calculate interest on overdue accounts (underpayments) and refunds (overpayments) of customs duties. For the quarter that begins Oct. 1, the interest rate for overpayments is 7% for corporations and 8% for non-corporations. The rate for underpayments is 8% for both corporations and non-corporations. That's unchanged from the previous quarter.
The following customs brokers' national permits are revoked without prejudice for failure to pay the annual permit user fee for 2023 or 2024, CBP said in a notice.
The recent confusion over requiring additional data in Air Cargo Advanced Screening security filings because of unspecified security concerns (see 2408270026 and 2409110056) has highlighted the need for Transportation Security Administration, CBP and air cargo participants to examine how to provide air cargo companies and freight forwarders with more visibility into the factors that prompt changes in data collection, said panelists at the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America’s government affairs conference Sept. 23.
The U.S. will ban the import and sale of vehicles with hardware or software that facilitates communication to GPS satellites and drivers' cellphones, or software and hardware that allow driverless operation, if those goods come from China or Russia, under a notice of proposed rulemaking.
While a top CBP official didn't give any specifics on how many brokerages were suspended from a pilot that allows electronic clearance of de minimis packages (see 2405310054), he told attendees at an annual National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America conference not to "be afraid of that enforcement," as the brokers who were suspended were so lax that there wasn't even anything that the companies could argue about with CBP.
The Commerce Department is proposing that no Chinese or Russian software or hardware that enables cars to use GPS, connect to cell phones, or other external communication facilitators will be allowed to be imported, because the government believes that these are security risks.