U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued messages on a number of antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty actions, many of which (marked by an * in the action column) were previously published in the Federal Register by the International Trade Administration (ITA) and summarized in International Trade Today.
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 initiated a new shipper review for the antidumping (AD) duty order on honey from Argentina with respect to the following exporter/producer combination and review period:
The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements (CITA) has issued a notice containing its determination that certain woven, 100% cotton, double-napped, flannel fabric, of certain specifications, classified in HTS 5209.31.6050, cannot be supplied by the domestic industry in commercial quantities in a timely manner under the U.S.-Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA).
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued messages on a number of antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty actions, many of which (marked by an * in the action column) were previously published in the Federal Register by the International Trade Administration (ITA) and summarized in International Trade Today.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has made a preliminary affirmative determination that critical circumstances exist for imports of magnesium metal from China for Tianjin Magnesium International Co., Ltd. (Tianjin, a mandatory respondent), Guangling Jinghua Science and Technology Co., Ltd. (Guangling, the sole Section A respondent), and the China-wide entity.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) is amending its preliminary affirmative antidumping (AD) duty determination on purified carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) from the Netherlands in order to correct significant ministerial errors with respect to Noviant BV and the "All Others" rate.
The Washington File has reported that U.S. researchers are developing materials that could make consumers less susceptible to product tampering or failures. According to the Washington File, the technology could be applied in tamper-resistant food and medicine packaging as well as early internal failure indicators in machinery and anti-counterfeiting elements. (Washington File Pub 02/02/05, available at http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2005&m=February&x=20050202140627lcnirellep0.8408014&t=livefeeds/wf-latest.html)
The International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued a press release on its final negative antidumping (AD) injury determination stating that the U.S. industry is neither materially injured nor threatened with material injury by reason of imports of outboard engines from Japan, which the International Trade Administration (ITA) has determined are sold in the U.S. at less than fair value.
The ITA states that if it does not receive, by the February 28, 2005 deadline, a request for the review of entries covered by an AD or CV duty order or suspended investigation listed above for the identified review period, it will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to assess AD or CV duties on those entries at a rate equal to the cash deposit of (or bond for) estimated AD or CV duties required on those entries at the time of entry, and to continue to collect the AD or CV cash deposit previously ordered.
On January 31, 2005, the Council of the European Union (Council) adopted a regulation which suspends, retroactive to January 1, 2005, the additional customs duties it has been imposing on certain U.S.-origin products in connection with the European Union's (EU's) dispute over the U.S. Foreign Sales Corporation (FSC)/FSC Replacement and Extraterritorial Income Exclusion Act (ETI) tax regime.