CBP announced an Enforce and Protect Act (EAPA) investigation on whether Ebuy Enterprises and Highland USA International evaded an antidumping duty order on xanthan gum from China. The agency said it found reasonable suspicion existed that the importers had transshipped Chinese-origin xanthan gum through Malaysia, necessitating the imposition of interim measures.
The upcoming, near-certain government shutdown should last at least one week, and has a good chance of lasting three weeks or more, said Nicole Bivens Collinson, legislative counsel for the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America, speaking on a call hosted by the NCBFAA Sept. 29.
The Commerce Department's refusal to adjust its threshold for differentiating between different types of pasta as part of the duty calculation in the 2018-19 antidumping review of pasta from Italy violated the law, exporters La Molisana and Valdigrano di Flavio Pagani argued in their Sept. 26 opening brief at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. La Molisana said Commerce's use of the "protein content on a FDA nutrition fact panel to determine protein content" ignores the different standards used in finding the number of grams of protein (La Molisana v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 23-2060).
Dealmakers are hoping for more certainty when the Treasury Department finalizes regulations for its August executive order on outbound investment restrictions, which may force companies to make difficult investment decisions without assurances that their deals won’t be later unwound.
The following lawsuits were recently filed at the Court of International Trade:
Charter Communications renewed its request for a temporary restraining order to enjoin Bridger Mahlum, its former director-state government affairs, from continuing his employment with BroadbandMT, a direct competitor, and keeping him from spilling Charter’s trade secrets, in its emergency motion Monday (docket 3:23-cv-01106) in U.S. District Court for Connecticut in New Haven.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Sept. 18-24:
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Even though thousands of CBP employees will be required to work without pay to clear cargo in the case of a government shutdown on Sunday, importers are preparing for problems, since they have experienced them in previous shutdowns.
The Commerce Department correctly reversed its use of adverse facts on remand in an antidumping duty review on imported steel nails from Oman, both DOJ and respondent Oman Fasteners said in two sets of remand comments, both filed Sept. 22 at the Court of International Trade (Oman Fasteners v. U.S., CIT # 22-00348).