The Commerce Department on Aug. 5 published its quarterly list of (i) completed antidumping and countervailing duty scope rulings and (ii) anti-circumvention determinations. The following list covers completed scope rulings for the period Jan. 1, 2024, through March 31, 2024:
The Commerce Department soon will suspend liquidation and set antidumping duty cash deposit requirements for imports of glass wine bottles from Chile, China and Mexico, it said in a fact sheet Aug. 5. The agency's preliminary determinations set AD rates ranging from 6.64% to 173.91% for Chilean companies, 11.14% to 207.52% for Chinese companies and 14.96% to 96.95% for Mexican companies. Suspension of liquidation is already in effect for China for countervailing duty purposes (see 2405310078). AD suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements for these three countries will take effect for entries on or after the date of publication of the preliminary determinations in the Federal Register, which should occur in the coming days.
The Commerce Department will suspend liquidation and require antidumping and countervailing duties on aluminum wire and cable finished in South Korea and Vietnam using inputs from China, after preliminarily finding the imports are circumventing AD/CVD orders on aluminum wire and cable from China (A-570-095/C-570-096).
On Aug. 5, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is planning to recognize Costa Rica as being free of classical swine fever (CSF). APHIS conducted a risk evaluation that will be available for public review and seeks public comments on this proposed decision through Sept. 6, it said in a notice.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service appears set to allow imports of fresh cape gooseberry fruit from Peru, if the fruit passes one or more designated phytosanitary measures. It seeks public comment on a pest risk analysis it designed to screen for the pests that might require quarantine or allow entry of Physalis peruviana, the Peruvian fruit.
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on Aug. 6:
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is amending two exclusions from Section 301 tariffs to conform the tariff numbers in the descriptions of the exclusions to recent tariff schedule changes, it said in an Aug. 6 notice. The affected exclusions are found at U.S. Notes 20(vvv)(iv)(10) and 20(vvv)(iv)(11) to subchapter III of Chapter 99. The conforming amendments are effective July 1.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of July 29 - Aug. 4:
After its bid for a preliminary injunction was denied by Court of International Trade Judge Claire Kelly (see 2407260045), a customs broker fought Aug. 5 against a motion to dismiss its case, saying its complaint was ripe for litigation because CBP had already made the decision to deny its reinstatement to the agency's Entry Type 86 pilot (Seko Customs Brokerage v. United States, CIT # 24-00097).