Automated shade machines are neither "curtains" nor " builders' wares" but are complex machines classifiable in the tariff schedule as appliances with individual functions, importer Lutron said in a Sept. 14 complaint to the Court of International Trade (Lutron Electronics v. U.S., CIT #22-00264).
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The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Sept. 12 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):
Three importers evaded antidumping and countervailing duties on cast iron soil pipe from China (A-570-079/C-570-080), CBP said in a Sept. 6 Enforce and Protect Act determination released in recent days. In EAPA consolidated case 7621, CBP found that Granite Plumbing Products, Little Fireflies International and Phoenix Metal entered soil pipe from China covered by the antidumping and countervailing duty orders by transshipping through Cambodia.
CBP recently asked Commerce for a scope ruling in an Enforce and Protect Act investigation involving whether imports of rough fittings originated in China and processed in Vietnam prior are evading the antidumping duty order on carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings from China (A-570-814), according to a recently released Sept. 6 notice.
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
The Court of International Trade denied a motion by Midwest-CBK that asked the court to have two issues appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in a Sept. 7 order from Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves. The order said that the issues at hand did not meet the requirements for an interlocutory appeal because they involved questions of fact, not purely law (Midwest-CBK, LLC v. United States, CIT Consol. #17-00154).
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
A Canadian softwood lumber producer cannot claim to be a successor-in-interest to another lumber company still in existence, the government argued in a Sept. 6 brief at the Court of International Trade (GreenFirst Forest Products, v. United States, CIT # 22-00097)
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
Customs brokers don't need to receive duties directly from an importer and can receive funds from a middleman, CBP said in a ruling issued Aug. 25 and released by the agency Sept. 6 (HQ H318461). The decision followed a request from World Customs Brokerage (WCB) for a binding ruling regarding broker relations with unlicensed persons. Both WCB and freight forwarder World Courier, Inc. (WCI) are subsidiaries of AmerisourceBergen Corporation, and WCI often forwards imports to WCB for customs brokerage services and bills and receives payment through WCI.