The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of July 11-17:
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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 following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of July 4-10:
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of June 27 - July 3:
The International Trade Commission on July 1 posted revisions to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (here). The new HTS implements the first round of tariff cuts under the expanded World Trade Organization Information Technology Agreement, as well as the results of the U.S. Trade Representative's 2015-16 review of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), adding several "travel goods" to the program, albeit only for least developed country beneficiaries.
The International Trade Commission on July 1 posted revisions to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (here). The new HTS implements the results of the U.S. Trade Representative's 2015-16 review of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), adding several "travel goods" to the program, albeit only for least developed country beneficiaries. The ITC is also implementing the first round of tariff cuts under the expanded World Trade Organization Information Technology Agreement, and adding new tariff numbers for a variety of products, including sweatshirts.
As CBP moves quota filing into ACE on July 23, the biggest changes seen by the trade community will be a fully electronic submission process and the automation of quota allocation and messaging, CBP officials said during a webinar June 28. Gone will be the days of time-stamped paper, at least for filers who submit quota data electronically in ACE entry summaries and imaged documents. The ACE system, not entry and import specialists, will automatically set presentation dates and, with certain exceptions, allocate quota amounts and message filers accordingly, the officials said during the webinar, which expanded on transition procedures recently outlined by CBP (see 1606270028).
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of June 20-26:
The Food and Drug Administration is going on the offensive to get filers left behind by the agency’s recent ACE deadline on board with the new system, said Doug Stearn, director of FDA’s office of enforcement and import operations, in an interview on June 24. Though the “overwhelming” amount of FDA-regulated imports are now being filed in ACE following the June 15 deadline for FDA entries and entry summaries of entry types 01, 03, 11, 23, 51 and 52, FDA has many smaller filers, some of which have still not made the transition, Stearn said.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of June 13-19:
The Food and Drug Administration posted an updated guidance on prior notice for imported foods (here). The agency had not updated the questions and answers document since 2004, and in the meantime formally adopted the interim final rule that established prior notice requirements and issued another final rule requiring importers notify the FDA if an article has previously been refused entry. The agency requested public comments on a draft version of the guidance in 2014 (see 14032819), but made "no substantive changes" for the final guidance, the FDA said in a Federal Register notice (here).