CBP has released its Dec. 24 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 59, No. 48). While it contains no ruling notices, it includes two U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decisions and five Court of International Trade slip opinions.
The Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee will hold a meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. ET. The meeting will be open to the public via webinar only, CBP said in a Federal Register notice. Comments must be submitted by 5 p.m. ET on Jan. 9, and the meeting link will be available on this page by 5 p.m. ET on Jan. 13.
For a company to use laboratory reports submitted to CBP to protest the agency's finding on the material composition of an imported good, it must establish a prima facie case sufficient to overcome CBP’s presumption of correctness, CBP said in a Nov. 4 ruling that nonetheless granted an importer's protest based on CBP re-testing.
The International Trade Commission began a Section 337 investigation on allegations that U.S. company USA Angelalign Technology Corp., two Chinese companies and their subsidiaries are importing and selling retainers that infringe patents held by Align Technologies (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1471), it said in a notice to be published Dec. 29.
The Commerce Department issued its final determinations in its countervailing duty investigations on hard empty capsules from Brazil (C-351-865), China (C-570-185), India (C-533-935) and Vietnam (C-552-848), after finding countervailable subsidization of producers and exporters in the four countries in the preliminary determinations of its CVD investigations. Suspension of liquidation is currently not in effect for entries on or after July 29, 2025, and Commerce will require cash deposits of estimated CVD on future entries only if it issues a CVD order.
The Commerce Department made final affirmative antidumping duty determinations that imports of hard empty capsules from Brazil (A-351-864), China (A-570-184), India (A-533-934) and Vietnam (A-552-847) are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will continue for entries on or after May 29, the date that the preliminary determinations were published in the Federal Register. Cash deposit rates set in these final determinations take effect Dec. 29.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission will hold a webinar Jan. 8, 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET, to provide information and answer questions related to eFiling.
The USDA Foreign Agricultural Service released a list of updated quantity trigger levels and applicable periods for products that may be subject to additional import duties under the safeguard provisions of the World Trade Organization Agreement on Agriculture.
CBP unlawfully initiated an antidumping duty and countervailing duty evasion investigation more than 15 days after receiving an allegation of duty evasion and imposed interim measures in violation of importer Sinoboom North America's due process rights, Sinoboom argued in a Dec. 22 complaint at the Court of International Trade (Sinoboom North America v. United States, CIT # 25-00876).
Although geopolitical and macroeconomic uncertainties abound heading into 2026, it's unlikely that port volumes at the Port of Los Angeles next year will be "falling off a cliff," the port's executive director, Gene Seroka, said during the port's monthly media briefing last week.