The International Trade Administration (ITA) has initiated and issued its preliminary results of an antidumping (AD) duty changed circumstances review of canned pineapple fruit from Thailand.
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.
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.
In the June 2, 2004 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (CBP Bulletin) (Vol. 38, No. 23), CBP issued a notice revoking two classification rulings on industrial smokehouse apparatus. CBP states that it is also revoking any treatment it has previously accorded to substantially identical transactions that are contrary to its position in this notice.
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 issued a notice announcing the opportunity to request administrative reviews of the following antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty orders:
Pursuant to the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000 (the Offset Act), the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a notice of its intent to distribute assessed antidumping (AD) or countervailing (CV) duties for fiscal year (FY) 2004 to affected domestic producers for certain qualifying expenditures they incur after the issuance of an AD or CV order. Written certifications to obtain a continued AD or CV offset under a particular order must be received by August 2, 2004.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued an administrative message stating that Phase 3 of the FDA BTA will be implemented on June 4, 2004, with full ABI edits turned on at or about 6:00 a.m. EDT on that date.
(a) ACA, HoneyMax, and TransHoney each have an AD cash deposit rate of zero; however, suspension of liquidation will continue
The ITA notes that Longkou Jinzheng agreed to waive the time limits for issuance of the preliminary results of this AD duty new shipper review, in order that the ITA may conduct this AD duty new shipper review concurrent with the seventh AD duty administrative review of brake rotors from China. (See ITT's Online Archives or 04/05/04 news, 04040530 for BP summary of the initiation of the seventh AD duty administrative review.)
The Journal of Commerce reports that the DHS Bureau of Transportation and Security Directorate (BTS) Container Working Group, which is working on "secure systems of transportation" and container seals and locks, is thinking about leveraging DHS' scarce assets, including whether the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA's) known-shipper program can somehow help the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT). The article notes that the CWG intends to present the results of its work to the Departmental Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (COAC) and obtain input from technology providers. (JoC dated 05/17-23/04, www.joc.com.)