The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated March 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):
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The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
CBP correctly classified a supermodule for use in hydrogen fuel-cell powerplants as parts of electric generators rather than as a water gas generator, DOJ argued in a March 15 motion at the Court of International Trade (HyAxium v. United States, CIT # 21-00057).
Industrial shredders imported by Vecoplan are classifiable as grinding and crushing tools under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule because the shredding operations break down material into small fragments and reduce the size of material by means of impacting the waste material, the importer argued in a March 15 motion (Vecoplan v. United States, CIT # 20-00126).
The Commerce Department does not need an additional 91 days to produce a remand redetermination on a scope ruling involving antidumping and countervailing duties on common alloy aluminum sheet from China, importer Valeo said in a March 14 response motion at the Court of International Trade (Valeo North America v. United States, CIT # 21-00581).
DOJ has asked the Court of International Trade permission to add AB MA Distribution Corporation as a defendant alongside Zhe "John" Liu and GL Paper Distribution in an amended complaint in a penalty case at the Court of International Trade. AB MA is allegedly a shell company through which Liu continued an illegal transshipment scheme to import Chinese-origin wire hangers through Malaysia, India and Thailand in order to evade antidumping and countervailing duties (see 2302070047) (United States v. Zhe "John" Liu, CIT # 22-00215).
The Commerce Department made no corrections to the final results of a 2020-2021 administrative review of an antidumping duty order on polyethylene terephthalate resin from Oman after considering a ministerial error allegation by plaintiff Octal, DOJ told the Court of International Trade in a March 13 motion. DOJ had asked the Court to allow the Commerce Department to consider the allegation and, if necessary, to amend its final results. Commerce found that Octal untimely filed its allegation (Octal, et al. v. United States, CIT # 22-00352).
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 March 13 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 should not have granted an non-cooperative Vietnamese frozen fish exporter a separate antidumping rate during an AD review,Green Farms Seafood argued in its March 10 reply brief at the Court of International Trade (Green Farms Seafood v. U.S., CIT # 22-00092). Commerce's subsequent averaging of the adverse facts available separate rate with other rates in the review to set a rate for the non-individually investigated companies resulted in Green Farms getting a rate not reflective of economic reality, Green Farms said.