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 Nov. 26, 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 has released its Nov. 27 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 47), which includes the following ruling actions:
The former chief of staff to then-U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has been chosen for USTR in Donald Trump's second administration.
The exclusion process for Section 301 tariffs was understandable in one regard -- requests for goods linked to China's technology supremacy strategy known as Made in China 2025 were less likely to be successful.
Despite looming geopolitical and labor uncertainties, freight markets are appearing to hold steady, trade industry executives told International Trade Today. But President-elect Donald Trump's announcement this week of plans to levy a 25% tariff against Mexico and Canada and increase by 10% the tariffs on Chinese goods (see 2411260012) could propel the freight markets into a frenzy should importers try to rush to get cargo in before the tariffs are implemented.
A domestic producer recently filed a petition with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission requesting new antidumping and countervailing duties on float glass from Malaysia and China. Commerce will now decide whether to begin AD/CVD investigations, which could result in the imposition of permanent AD/CVD orders and the assessment of AD and CVD on importers. Vitro Flat Glass and its subsidiaries requested the investigation.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Nov. 26 Federal Register on the following AD/CVD injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department issued antidumping duty orders on aluminum lithographic printing plates from China (A-570-156) and Japan (A-588-881), and countervailing duty orders on aluminum lithographic printing plates from China (C-570-157).
The International Trade Commission is issuing a limited exclusion order banning imports of movable barrier operators (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1118) from Nortek and its subsidiaries, it said in a notice. Additionally, the ITC issued Nortek cease and desist orders and set a bond in the amount of 0% of entered value for excluded articles imported or sold during the period of presidential review. The order concludes a Section 337 investigation the ITC launched in June 2018, based on allegations by Chamberlain that Nortek and its subsidiaries are importing "certain movable barrier operators (including garage door operators) and components thereof that infringe claim 11 of U.S. Patent No. 8,587,404."