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 May 15, 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.
Aluminum composite panels with thermoplastic cores imported by K-Tex are subject to antidumping and countervailing duty orders on common alloy aluminum sheet from China, the Commerce Department said in an April 29 scope ruling.
Aluminum capacitor foil imported by Instrument Transformers is covered by antidumping and countervailing duty orders on aluminum foil from China, the Commerce Department said in an April 29 scope ruling.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told Senate appropriators that a proposed rule on connected vehicles should come out in the fall.
The exclusion from solar safeguard tariffs for bifacial solar panels -- originally meant to help utility-scale installations -- is about to end, the Biden administration announced May 16.
With the addition of 26 firms that source cotton from Xinijang, the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act's Entity List now has 36 textile firms -- more than half of the list.
DHS is adding 26 Chinese companies to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List because they allegedly source cotton from China’s Xinjiang region, it said in a notice released May 16. The companies, which are cotton traders and warehouse facilities, will be added to the list effective upon the notice's scheduled May 17 publication in the Federal Register. Under UFLPA, CBP applies a rebuttable presumption that goods mined, produced or manufactured by entities on the UFLPA Entity List are made with forced labor and prohibited from importation.
John Verbeten is leaving his role as deputy director for import operations enforcement at FDA’s Office of Enforcement and Import Operations to head to the same agency’s Center for Tobacco Products, the FDA said May 13. Verbeten will direct the center’s office of compliance and enforcement. There “will be a series” of acting officials in Verbeten’s former position “while we recruit, hire and onboard a permanent replacement,” an FDA spokesperson told us. “We hope to finish that process as quickly as possible but cannot provide a definitive timeline.”
PKDC, a Colorado-based furniture distributor, accused ocean carrier CMA CGM of refusing to meet its commitments to the distributor, coercing "extracontractual" payments from PKDC, and charging detention and demurrage for situations outside the distributor's control. The furniture distributor, in a complaint to the Federal Maritime Commission dated May 10, said it paid over $1 million in unreasonable detention and demurrage and that CMA CGM cost it over $12 million by refusing to meet its quantity commitments under the service contract.