Imported glass mosaic tiles from China should have been granted Section 301 tariff exclusions due to their size, said importer Anatolia Tile & Stone in a May 31 complaint at the Court of International Trade. Anatolia is challenging CBP's denial of 42 protests, which sought to remove the 25% duty assigned by CBP at liquidation. The company asked the court to order CBP to reliquidate the entries and refund any excess duties paid with interest (Anatolia Tile & Stone v. U.S., CIT # 21-00245).
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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.
CBP misclassified low noise blocks and switches over a series of entries between 2016 and 2018 as "transmission apparatus for radio-broadcasting," rather than as duty-free "telephone sets,' Global Invacom said in a May 30 complaint at the Court of International Trade (Global Invacom Ltd. v. U.S., CIT # 21-00261).
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
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 May 30 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 correctly reconsidered Nucor’s ministerial error allegations in recalculating antidumping duty rates for Prolamsa and Maquilacero in its remand results on the 2018-19 administrative review on heavy walled rectangular welded steel pipes and tubes from Mexico, Nucor said in May 26 response comments to the remand redetermination at the Court of International Trade (Nucor Tubular Products v. U.S., CIT # 21-00543).
The Court of International Trade should sustain the Commerce Department's fifth remand redetermination on the antidumping duty investigation on certain hardwood plywood products from China, said the government, a group of consolidated plaintiffs, and a defendant-intervenor, in a series of response briefs at the Court of International Trade (Linyi Chengen Import and Export Co., Ltd., et al. v. U.S., CIT Consol. # 18-00002).
The Commerce Department correctly reconsidered ministerial error comments in recalculating antidumping duty rates in its remand results on the 2018-19 administrative review on heavy walled rectangular welded steel pipes and tubes from Mexico, DOJ said in its May 25 response to remand comments at the Court of International Trade (Nucor Tubular Products v. U.S., CIT # 21-00543).
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
The Commerce Department incorrectly valued imported coal during an antidumping review on activated carbon from China, using a tariff schedule code for coal that was less specific than required and failing to use the best available data for valuing coal tar pitch inputs, Jilin Bright Future Chemicals said in a May 25 motion for judgment (Jilin Bright Future Chemicals Co. v. U.S., CIT # 22-00336).