Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, introduced bills that would hike tariffs on green tech. One would add 25% tariffs to most favored nation tariffs for all battery components, solar energy components and wind energy components from China, with a hike of 5% a year until the rates reached 50%. The other, called Protecting American Autoworkers from China Act, would apply a 125% tax on Chinese autos -- not just electric vehicles -- over the MFN rate. That bill would apply to all cars built by Chinese-owned companies, even if they had a European or North American country of origin, "so that Chinese manufacturers cannot use other nations, such as Mexico, as a backdoor to avoid the tariffs."
Groups of law enforcement and advocates for opiate addicts, along with the Coalition for a Prosperous America, told the House Ways and Means Committee that while they appreciate its action to restrict de minimis for articles subject to Section 301 tariffs, they hope members develop a "comprehensive solution" to the de minimis crisis.
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 10, 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.
The country of origin for imported components of the "Nikola’s Tre Bev, class 8, battery-electric semi-truck" is the U.S. for government procurement purposes, as the parts undergo a substantial transformation when assembled into an electric truck, CBP said. The components lose their individual identity and become an "integral part" of a new article with a new name, character and use.
The final price EMA Professional Services Corp. pays to its suppliers for precious metal bars after importation is determined according to "an acceptable formula" and meets the "'price actually paid or payable'" standard for purposes of the transaction value method, CBP said. EMA may report any price adjustments through the ACE Reconciliation Program, the agency said in an April 19 customs ruling.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register May 10 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 has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on finished carbon steel flanges from Spain (Commerce A-469-815; CBP A-470-815). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set an assessment rate for subject merchandise for the one company that remains under review entered June 1, 2022, through May 31, 2023.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on hydrofluorocarbon blends from China (A-570-028). The agency said that none of the respondents remaining in the review demonstrated independence from state control, and therefore were assigned to the China-wide entity, with a rate of 216.37%.
The Commerce Department looks set to recognize an Indian company’s name change and corporate reorganization for the purposes of antidumping duties on frozen warmwater shrimp from India (A-533-840). The agency preliminarily found Varma Marine Private Limited (Varma) is the successor-in-interest to Varma Marine, in the preliminary results of a changed circumstances review. The agency preliminarily found Varma and Varma Marine signed a takeover agreement to transfer all Varma Marine assets to Varma, such that Varma operates as essentially the same business entity as Varma Marine with respect to the production and sale of subject merchandise.