CBP released its April 6 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 56, No. 13), which includes the following ruling actions:

The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that in automatic five-year sunset reviews scheduled to begin in May it will consider revoking the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders on finished carbon steel flanges from India (A-533-871/C-533-872), as well as the antidumping duty orders on finished carbon steel flanges from Italy (A-475-835) and Spain (A-469-815); frozen warmwater shrimp from China (A-570-893), India (A-533-840), Thailand (A-549-822) and Vietnam (A-552-802); and welded stainless steel pipe from Taiwan (A-583-815) and South Korea (A-580-810). These orders will be revoked unless Commerce finds that revocation would lead to dumping and the International Trade Commission finds that revocation would result in injury to U.S. industry, Commerce said in a notice published April 1.

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on HEDP from China (A-570-045/C-570-046) and sulfanilic acid from India (A-533-806/C-533-807), as well as the antidumping duty orders ferrovanadium from South Korea (A-580-886), helical spring lock washers from China and Taiwan (A-570-822, A-583-820) and sulfanilic acid from China (A-570-815), Commerce said in a notice April 1.

The Court of International Trade dismissed a case brought by the U.S. government seeking the collection of over $5.7 million in unpaid duties from Katana Racing on passenger vehicle and light truck tires from China. In a March 28 opinion, Judge Thomas Aquilino granted Katana's motion to dismiss based on an expired statute of limitations. The judge ruled that Katana was allowed to revoke an earlier statute of limitations waiver and concluded that without the waiver, any action by CBP is barred by the passage of time (United States v. Katana Racing Inc., d/b/a Wheel & Tire Distributors, CIT #19-00125).

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., complained in a floor speech that Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, blocked unanimous consent to move to debate and a vote on revoking permanent normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus.

CBP released its March 23 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 56, No. 11), which includes the following ruling actions:

The Court of International Trade on March 18 dismissed a lawsuit brought by a domestic pipe producer seeking to compel CBP to provide it with information related to an alleged duty evasion scheme by two importers. Judge Timothy Stanceu said that while the trade court did have jurisdiction to hear the case, Wheatland Tube Company improperly submitted its requests for information to CBP, and the agency properly rejected Wheatland's request to revoke a ruling letter.

The U.S., Japan, the United Kingdom and the European Union announced together that they no longer will give Russian goods the same tariff treatment as other members of the World Trade Organization. Canada, the other member of the G-7, had already hiked tariffs on all Russian goods to 35%.

In the Feb. 23 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 56, No. 7), CBP published a proposal to revoke rulings on babies' swimwear and plastic urine drainage bags.

In the March 2 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 56, No. 8), CBP published a proposal to revoke a ruling on belts.