CBP has added more parties to the list of those qualified to pay duties on international mail shipments (see 2509150015), according to a Jan. 14 cargo systems message. The list is available here.
Public comments submitted to the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee's Jan. 14 meeting were supportive of the committee's recommendations calling for CBP to release clearer and additional guidance on how importers can comply with Section 232 tariffs (see 2601120017), particularly when it comes to the valuation of steel and aluminum content.
Certain advanced chips, whose parameters are described in the annex to a presidential proclamation, will be subject to 25% tariffs starting Jan. 15, but a broad array of domestic uses are carved out of the Section 232 action.
Certain advanced chips -- including the NVIDIA H200 and AMD MI325X, a White House fact sheet said -- will be subject to 25% Section 232 tariffs starting Jan. 15, but a broad array of domestic uses of those chips are carved out from the action.
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES, has made changes to which flora and fauna species are listed in its Appendix I and Appendix II, according to a Jan. 13 notice from the Fish and Wildlife Service.
The International Trade Commission seeks comments by Jan. 22 on a Section 337 complaint alleging that imports of power converters infringe patents held by Vicor Corporation, it said in a notice to be published Jan. 14 in the Federal Register. According to the complaint, Vicor is seeking a limited exclusion order and cease and desist orders against 10 companies from the U.S., Taiwan and China to bar from entry "certain power converters, circuit board assemblies, and computing systems containing the same" that violate its patents. Vicor said that the respondents are infringing its "patented non-isolated Sine Amplitude Converter (“SAC”) topology for power converters, including how it is employed within non-isolated intermediate bus architecture power distribution systems."
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Jan. 13 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 International Trade Commission seeks public comments as it considers whether to begin a review to determine if antidumping and countervailing duties on coated paper suitable for high quality print graphics using sheet-fed presses from Indonesia should remain in place.
On Jan. 12, 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 Jan. 13: