The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Aug. 26 - Sept. 1:
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 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species recently adopted widespread changes to international restrictions on trade in plants and wildlife at its triennial Conference of the Parties held Aug. 17-28 in Geneva. Among those changes are an expanded exemption from permit requirements for finished goods, including instruments, made from certain species of rosewood that will take effect sometime in November.
A recent change to the customs regulations that limits the use of substitution drawback on excise taxes is supported by the plain language of the law, and merely closes a “double drawback” loophole that CBP San Francisco erroneously opened in 2004 when it misinterpreted that legal language as it was first enacted, Justice Department lawyers said in a brief filed Aug. 28 with the Court of International Trade.
An importer of woodworking and garden tools that stores the tools with a related U.S. company before they are sold to the consumer may use a modified form of deductive value that relies on the price of sales more than 90 days after importation to appraise the merchandise, CBP said in ruling HQ H304125, issued Aug. 2.
The Food and Drug Administration threatened to ban a New York-based company from importing food for five years after a series of outbreaks and a purported lack of cooperation from the company. In a warning letter dated Aug. 26, FDA told Agroson’s that it has been connected to three outbreaks of salmonella related to imported papayas, and threatened to put Agroson’s on import alert or debar the company from importing if it doesn’t respond with actions it is taking to correct the violations.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Aug. 19-25:
CBP is “largely on the same page” with the cautious approach to the rollout of risk-based bonding recommended by the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee, said John Leonard, CBP executive director-trade policy and programs, at a COAC meeting held Aug. 21 in Buffalo, New York.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the weeks of Aug. 12-18:
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the weeks of Aug. 5-11:
A recent Federal Circuit decision on tariff engineering is the latest in a string of cases that threatens to throw the importing community into turmoil, trade groups said in briefs requesting that the court rehear the case. The American Association of Exporters and Importers, the Customs and International Trade Bar Association and, in a joint brief, the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce say the appeals court’s decision on Ford transit vans threatens to upend a century of precedent on tariff classification by solidifying use as a factor in eo nomine tariff classification.