The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated June 21 with the following headquarters rulings (ruling revocations and modifications will be detailed elsewhere in a separate article as they are announced in the Customs Bulletin):
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Ben Perkins, Assistant Editor, is a reporter with International Trade Today and its sister publications, Trade Law Daily and Export Compliance Daily, where he covers sanctions, court rulings, and other international trade issues. He previously worked as a trade analyst for a Washington D.C. advisory firm. Ben holds a B.A. in English from the University of New Hampshire and an M.A. in International Relations from American University. Ben joined the staff of Warren Communications News in 2022.
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated June 16 with the following headquarters rulings (ruling revocations and modifications will be detailed elsewhere in a separate article as they are announced in the Customs Bulletin):
The Commerce Department made subsidies an "afterthought" when it failed to properly evaluate their impact on potential surrogates in a case involving the administrative review of an antidumping duty order on steel nails from Oman, AD respondent Oman Fasteners told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in a June 16 response brief (Mid Continent Steel & Wire v. U.S., Fed. Cir. # 23-1039).
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina has granted a motion dismissing several claims by We CBD against shipping company Planet Nine Pirvate Air that arose from a CBP seizure of alleged industrial hemp that tested over the THC limit and was destroyed. The court allowed various counterclaims by Planet Nine to proceed and set a trial date in July (We CBD v. Planet Nine Private Air, W.D.N.C. # 21-00352).
The Commerce Department complied with a remand order from the Court of International Trade by adding a respondent to its antidumping duty investigation on utility-scale wind towers from Spain, but did not alter its all-others rate, in remand results submitted to the trade court June 16 (Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy v. U.S., CIT # 21-00449).
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated June 15 with the following headquarters rulings (ruling revocations and modifications will be detailed elsewhere in a separate article as they are announced in the Customs Bulletin):
The International Trade Commission has seen its workload outpace its staffing in recent years, according to several current and former commissioners. Speaking on a panel at Georgetown Law's annual International Trade Update, Chairman David Johanson said that the agency's workload keeps going up despite its small staff of just over 400 employees.
The International Trade Commission was not required in a sunset review to cumulate imports of cold-rolled steel from Brazil with subject imports from five other countries under consideration, it argued in a June 13 brief at the Court of International Trade (Cleveland-Cliffs v. U.S., CIT # 22-00257).
The Commerce Department has had to change its practices in countervailing duty cases when dealing with the China Export Buyer's Credit Program (EBCP), despite the increased burden on the agency, due to a series of unfavorable court decisions, lawyers said during a panel discussion at Georgetown Law's annual International Trade Update June 13.