The Drug Enforcement Administration is finalizing 2016 quotas for the manufacture and import of controlled substances in Schedule I and II of the Controlled Substances Act (here). Substances not listed in the table included in DEA's final rule will have a quota of zero. DEA is also setting quotas for the Schedule I chemicals ephedrine, phenylpropanolamine, and pseudoephedrine.
Brian Feito
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 following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Oct. 10-16:
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Oct. 3-9:
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Sept. 26 - Oct. 2:
Recent court decisions by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) threaten to close off a crucial avenue for judicial review of CBP ruling revocations and modifications, making it hard for importers to rely on rulings and violating Supreme Court precedent, said a lawyer representing Best Key, a Hong Kong manufacturer of yarn, in a Sept. 29 petition for a rehearing of the hearings by the full Federal Circuit. By directing Best Key to challenge classification via a denied protest, instead of allowing Best Key to challenge it under the Administrative Procedure Act, the Federal Circuit is preventing Best Key from challenging the process under which CBP revoked the ruling, John Peterson of Neville Peterson said in the petition. Best Key claims the ruling revocation process was tainted by the improper participation of its competitors.
An importer of college dormitory furniture, a sourcing firm, and the owner of both companies will pay a total of $1,525,000 to settle charges that they falsely claimed on customs documentation that they were importing office furniture in an effort to evade antidumping duties on wooden bedroom furniture from China, the Department of Justice said Sept 30 (here). In a whistleblower case brought by a former Omni employee, the government claimed Ecologic Industries, Omni Supply Chain Management and Daniel Scott Goldman “conspired with others” to make false statements and misclassified the furniture on entry documentation to avoid paying antidumping duties, DOJ said.
NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ontario -- The Canada Border Services Agency is “still stabilizing” its new Accounts Receivable Ledger (ARL) customs accounting and payment system, some nine months after it went live in January 2016, CBSA Comptroller Jen O’Donoughue said at the Canadian Society of Customs Brokers National Conference on Sept. 26. Many of the most serious issues are the result of payment misallocations that plagued the early stages of the transition, causing some importers to receive notices they owe debts despite having given money to their customs brokers to pay on their behalf. Those issues should no longer occur once CBSA works through a backlog of misallocated payments from February and March, which should be done in the next three months, she said.
NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, Ontario -- The Canada Border Services Agency looks set to streamline its plans for upcoming advanced import data transmission requirements for importers, similar to the U.S. Importer Security Filing, as it moves toward implementation of the eManifest importer requirement by 2018 at the earliest, according to panelists from CBSA and the Canadian Society of Customs Brokers at the CSCB National Conference on Sept. 26. Rather than require two separate transmissions, CBSA will instead require filing at the same time and in the same system as cargo release data, said Melanie Bedard of Milgram & Company, who led the panel discussion.
NIAGARA ON THE LAKE, Ontario -- With protectionism dominating discussion of trade in the U.S. presidential election, customs brokers throughout North America face uncertainty as to the fate of cross-border flows, said leadership of broker groups from the U.S., Canada and Mexico at the Canadian Society of Customs Brokers National Conference Sept. 27. Given how connected the three countries are, promises of higher tariffs, a border wall and a renegotiation of the terms of NAFTA from Republican candidate Donald Trump seem far-fetched, said Antonio Vidales, president of the Mexican brokers group CAAAREM. Campaign promises often differ from what happens when a candidate assumes office, he said. Nonetheless, Mexican brokers are worried, given the high volume of trade between the two countries.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Sept. 19-25: