The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on certain steel staples from China (A-570-112). Commerce said it continued to find that the one company remaining under review, Zhejiang Best Nail Industrial Co., Ltd. and its affiliated exporter Shaoxing Bohui Import & Export Co., Ltd. (Best Nail/Shaoxing Bohui), had no shipments of subject merchandise during the period of review. As a result, Commerce won't assess AD duties on entries from Best Nail/Shaoxing Bohui during the period July 1, 2022, though June 30, 2023. A zero percent cash deposit rate takes effect for Best Nail/Shaoxing Bohui July 9, the date these final results were published in the Federal Register.
On July 9, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on July 10:
The Bureau of Industry and Security is preparing to launch a survey of the pharmaceutical industry to gain a better understanding of the “supply chain network that underpins U.S. pharmaceutical manufacturing capabilities,” the agency said in a July 9 news release. BIS will survey hundreds of U.S. manufacturers, distributors, suppliers and customers involved in the U.S. “active pharmaceutical ingredient industrial base” in part to identify supply chain vulnerabilities and better plan for potential supply shortages. The Department of Health and Human Services requested the survey.
The House Ways and Means Committee passed a resolution to undo Treasury Department guidelines on foreign entity of concern involvement in electric vehicle supply chains. The committee passed the bill July 9 on a 25-14 vote.
CBP ignored the metadata of certain photographs and videos in an evasion investigation in order to claim they were unreliable, a wooden cabinet importer argued July 8 at the Court of International Trade (Skyview Cabinet USA v. U.S., CIT # 22-00080).
CBP issued the following release on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website July 9, 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 July 10 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 27). It contains a final rule adopting amendments to CBP regulations related to the import of merchandise that violates or is suspected of violating copyright laws, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (see 2407010029). It also contains a notice of revocation of one ruling letter and a revocation of treatment relating to the tariff classification of an automotive clutch tube that will be effective for merchandise entered or withdrawn from warehouse or consumption on or after Aug. 9.
Days after the House speaker said he wished to move a bill that would end de minimis eligibility for products subject to Section 301 tariffs (see 2407080049), the ranking member and other Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee said the idea has merit.