The International Trade Commission published notices in the July 22 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 International Trade Commission is beginning a Section 337 investigation based on a request from RAI and R.J. Reynolds for a Section 337 exclusion order banning all imports of disposable vaporizer devices that infringe on their patents, the ITC said in a notice published July 22. In their June complaint (see 2406170041), RAI and R.J. Reynolds identified 42 infringing companies, mostly in the U.S. and China. The ITC will consider issuing the general exclusion order banning imports of all infringing goods from all sources, as well as cease and desist orders against those 42 companies.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register July 22 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 issued its final determinations in the antidumping duty investigations on mattresses from India (A-533-919), Kosovo (A-803-001), Mexico (A-201-859) and Spain (A-469-826). Cash deposit rates set in these final determinations take effect July 22.
Vice President Kamala Harris, the likely Democratic presidential nominee, has said that former President Donald Trump's tariff policy was a "trade tax that has resulted in American families spending as much as $1.4 billion more on everything from shampoo to washing machines."
The Supreme Court's recent decision eliminating the standard of deferring to federal agencies' interpretation of ambiguous statutes (see 2406280051) "will likely result in more litigation in the already heavily litigated world of international trade," two ArentFox Schiff partners said in a client alert.
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 July 19, 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 will deploy on Sept. 29 a new ACE functionality to enforce the $800 daily aggregated limit for de minimis shipments, it said in a CSMS message. The “enhancement will automate the enforcement of the Section 321 requirements by implementing a validation in ACE to ensure that an appropriate party does not receive Section 321 clearance for more than an aggregated value of $800 in shipments on a given day,” CBP said in its most recent ACE development schedule (see 2407020007). “CBP will publish an information notice with more details soon,” it said.
The Federal Maritime Commission this week released its final rule on unreasonable carrier conduct, the last step in the FMC’s nearly two-year campaign of crafting regulations to address ocean carriers that unfairly refuse vessel or cargo space to shippers.