U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a notice on staged entry for overshipments of certain textiles and apparel subject to 2005 China safeguard quotas.
Customs Duty
A Customs Duty is a tariff or tax which a country imposes on goods when they are transported across international borders. Customs Duties are used to protect countries' economies, residents, jobs, and environments, by limiting the flow of imported merchandise, especially restricted and prohibited goods, into the country. The Customs Duty Rate is a percentage determined by the value of the article purchased in the foreign country and not based on quality, size, or weight.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has preliminarily determined that certain imports of frozen fish fillets from Cambodiaproduced by two entities based in Cambodiaare circumventing the antidumping (AD) duty order on certain frozen fish fillets from Vietnam.
In 2005, the Court of International Trade (CIT) ruled in U.S. v. Pan Pacific Textile Group et al. (Pan Pacific), that the principal is responsible for unpaid duties under 19 CFR 1592(d) stemming from fraudulent customs violations by his agent, who was the "importer of record" for certain tracksuits imported from China.
In 2003, the International Trade Administration (ITA) issued a notice which it stated clarified its automatic liquidation regulation, 19 CFR 351.212(c), in situations where a reseller (intermediary) exports merchandise from a market economy that is subject to antidumping (AD) duties.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued the preliminary results of two changed circumstances reviews of the antidumping (AD) duty orders on certain corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Canada and Germany.
1ITA states that in both the initiation and the preliminary determination, it inadvertently referenced the producing company as Montecitrus Industria e Comercio Limitada, rather than as Montecitrus Trading S.A.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued the final results of its antidumping (AD) duty administrative review of persulfates from China for the period of July 1, 2003 through June 30, 2004.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued the final results of its antidumping (AD) duty administrative review of freshwater crawfish tail meat from China for the period of September 1, 2003 through August 31, 2004.
In the February 8, 2006 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (CBP Bulletin) (Vol. 40, No. 7), CBP issued a notice revoking a classification ruling on sapphire wafers. CBP states that it is also revoking any treatment it has previously accorded to substantially identical merchandise.
Effective January 2, 2006, the International Trade Administration (ITA) is revoking the antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty orders on hard red spring wheat from Canada and terminating the suspension of liquidation.