The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of March 18-24:
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 Northern Illinois U.S. District Court on March 19 dismissed a False Claims Act duty evasion lawsuit against a now-bankrupt pipe company, but allowed the case against that company’s two owners to proceed. Larry and Dennis Greenspon allegedly had their company, LDR Industries, falsely declare imports of plumbing pipe as exempt from antidumping and countervailing duties on circular welded pipe from China, and also should have paid marking duties on the imports, the lawsuit says.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of March 11-17:
Plastic Apple iPad 2 “Smart Cover” cases are classifiable in the tariff schedule as articles of plastic, not as accessories for automatic data processing machines, the Court of International Trade said in a decision released to the public March 19. Apple had argued for its classification as an accessory because it also functions as a stand, but CIT agreed with a CBP ruling that found the cases are explicitly excluded from classification in Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States heading 8473.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of March 4-10:
CBP’s planned deployment of its new electronic Form 5106 on March 16 will cause “unnecessary hardship for the trade” as a result of a lack of testing and training and some issues surrounding the planned hard cut-off for the old process, the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America said in a letter to CBP dated March 8. Announced by CBP in February (see 1902200040), the new deadline does not leave adequate time for programming, testing and training, and a gap in availability could make life difficult for brokers, especially on the northern border, the NCBFAA said.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Feb. 25 - March 3:
No new lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Feb. 18-24.
Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb on Feb. 25 unveiled the agency’s new strategy to improve its oversight of imported food. Consisting of four pillars -- including prevention of food safety problems in the foreign supply chain, detection and refusal of unsafe foods at the border, rapid response and measuring progress on efficiency improvements -- FDA’s “modern strategy is designed to leverage our different authorities and tools to provide a multi-layered, data-driven, smarter approach to imported food safety,” Gottlieb said.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Feb. 11-17: