CBP has released its Jan. 14 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 60, No. 2). It contains no ruling notices nor Court of International Trade slip opinions.
CBP says it has updated the ACE Certification environment to enhance duty calculation validation. Next month, the enhancement will be added to the ACE Production environment, according to a Jan. 16 cargo systems message.
Steel industry executives told a bipartisan panel of House members that Canada and Mexico shouldn't be allowed an exemption from Section 232 tariffs, and a representative of Nucor, the largest U.S. steel manufacturer, asked the members to "vocally oppose any efforts to weaken these measures, whether through carve-outs for countries like Canada and Mexico or through gamesmanship like under-reporting the value of steel and steel products."
The International Trade Commission seeks comments by Jan. 26 on a Section 337 complaint alleging that imports of certain disposable and other closed-system electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) devices and components thereof infringe patents held by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, its subsidiaries and RAI Services Company, it said in a notice to be published Jan. 16 in the Federal Register. According to the complaint, the complainants are seeking a general and a limited exclusion order and cease and desist orders against Chinese manufacturers of Elf Bar and Geek Bar as well as their U.S. distributors to bar from entry disposable and other closed-system ENDS devices that violate its patents. The complainants said that they want to “stop the rampant flooding of the U.S. market with illicit electronic nicotine delivery systems (‘ENDS’ or ‘vapes’) that are causing substantial injury to Reynolds’ domestic industry.”
The International Trade Commission began a Section 337 investigation on allegations that Ouraring is importing and selling smart rings that infringe patents held by Samsung (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1478), it said in a notice to be published in the Federal Register Jan. 16.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Jan. 15 on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CVD rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department made a preliminary affirmative antidumping determination that lattice boom crawler cranes from Japan (A-588-883) are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The agency will impose antidumping duty cash requirements on entries of subject merchandise beginning Jan. 16, the date this preliminary determination is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register.
On Jan. 14, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts (after not having posted new ones for a number of days) on the detention without physical examination of:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices Jan. 15:
A 1985 Ferrari 288 GTO is properly classified under duty-free Harmonized Tariff Schedule subheading 9705.10.0090 as a "collectors' piece of historical interest," rather than as a motor vehicle of subheading 8703.23.0190, dutiable at 2.5%, importer Ferrari 288 GTO LLC argued in a Jan. 14 complaint at the Court of International Trade (Ferrari 288 GTO LLC v. United States, CIT # 26-00671).