Lawn tractor starter motors imported from Mexico with certain non-originating components are nonetheless eligible for NAFTA duty preferences because the non-originating components are incorporated into an originating “intermediate good,” CBP said in a recent ruling. The non-originating components undergo an allowed tariff shift before incorporation into the finished starter motor, so they don’t have to be taken into account when calculating the finished good’s regional value content, CBP said in ruling HQ H273100 (here), issued Jan. 6.
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Brian Feito is Managing Editor of International Trade Today, Export Compliance Daily and Trade Law Daily. A licensed customs broker who spent time at the Department of Commerce calculating antidumping and countervailing duties, Brian covers a wide range of subjects including customs and trade-facing product regulation, the courts, antidumping and countervailing duties and Mexico and the European Union. Brian is a graduate of the University of Florida and George Mason University. He joined the staff of Warren Communications News in 2012.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission’s recently ended e-filing alpha pilot went relatively smoothly, but expansion of e-filing to more entries could drastically increase costs, pilot participants said during a meeting with Consumer Product Safety Commission officials on Jan. 26 (here). Required data was mostly easy to obtain, but the manual process most used during the ACE pilot for entering data in CPSC’s data registry and tying it to entries will become burdensome as filing expands. Customs brokers at the meeting said the pilot went well. However, the complex disclaimer process CPSC anticipates using means the commission will need to be careful about the scope of its PGA message set, participants said.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Jan. 16-22:
The Food Safety and Inspection Service is proposing changes to nutrition labeling requirements for meat (including fish of the order Siluriformes, i.e., catfish) and poultry products (here). The proposed rule would align FSIS nutrition labels with the new labeling scheme adopted by the Food and Drug Administration in May (see 1605200021). FSIS would revise the information required on nutrition facts labels, adopt FDA's new format with larger type for calorie and serving information, and adopt new reference values for pregnant and lactating women and children under age 4. Single serving size and dual column labeling would be required for certain containers, and recordkeeping required for some nutrients. Comments are due March 20.
The Environmental Protection Agency is withdrawing significant new use rules (SNURs) it recently set for two chemical substances, it said (here). EPA said it received objections to two of the 57 SNURs the agency set in a November final rule (see 1611170029), so it will soon begin a formal rulemaking process for those two chemicals with a notice and comment period. The SNURs, which covered a bimodal mixture consisting of multi-walled carbon nanotubes and other classes of carbon nanotubes (generic) (PMN No. P-11- 482) and carbon nanotubes (generic) (PMN No. P-15-54), took effect Jan. 17.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Jan. 9-15:
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Jan. 2-8:
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Dec. 25 - Jan. 1:
The Fish and Wildlife Service will take a “case-by-case” approach to shipments of rosewoods and other wood species arriving after Jan. 2 without newly required Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species documentation, said Craig Hoover, chief of the FWS Division of Management Authority, during a webinar hosted in early December by the International Wood Products Association (here).
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Dec. 19-25: