The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on chlorinated isocyanurates from Spain (A-469-814) (CBP case number A-470-814). Commerce determined that none of the three companies under review undersold subject merchandise during the period of review, June 2022 through May 2023. This is unchanged from the preliminary results of the review. As a result, Commerce will not assess AD on importers from these three countries for entries during that period. A new zero percent cash deposit rate takes effect Feb. 4 for the three companies, as follows:
On Feb. 3, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee ranking member Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Calif., declined to say if she'd join forces with colleagues who want to end the president's ability to impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, but said, "I certainly think they're on the right track."
President Donald Trump nominated William Kimmitt, current partner at Kirkland & Ellis, to serve as head of the Commerce Department's International Trade Administration. Kimmitt served in the first Trump administration as counsel to the U.S. trade representative and was involved in the implementation of the USMCA. At Kirkland & Ellis, Kimmitt is a litigation partner, focusing on international trade and Section 337 unfair import investigation proceedings.
DOJ under President Donald Trump likely will pursue greater criminal enforcement of the most recent tariffs imposed on China to serve as a "general deterrent" and "punish instances of serious misconduct," attorneys at BakerHostetler said in a recent post. In response, foreign parties should be "mindful of their potential criminal exposure," partners Artie McConnell, Jennifer Solari and Michael Snarr said.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Feb. 3, 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 began Jan. 1, the interest rate for overpayments is 6% for corporations and 7% for non-corporations. The rate for underpayments is 7% for both corporations and non-corporations. That's down 1 percentage point from the previous quarter.
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President Donald Trump's decision to eliminate the duty-free de minimis threshold for goods from China, issued as part of his 10% tariff hike on Chinese products, likely will face legal challenges due to the economic importance of the de minimis rule, customs attorney Lawrence Friedman told us. However, many questions remain on the precise scope of any resulting change, along with the legal theory underpinning it.
Expect upheaval as companies that previously imported goods from China under the de minimis exemption face President Donald Trump's ban via executive order on using de minimis for those goods, members of the trade community told International Trade Today.