CBP issued its July 31 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 47, No. 32), which contains notices of the following ruling actions:

A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website July 22, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at addcvd.cbp.gov. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)

Cased pencils from China exported by Dixon will no longer be subject to antidumping duties, after the Commerce Department found a third consecutive zero AD rate for Dixon in the final results of an administrative review on cased pencils from China (A-570-827), and decided to partially revoke for the company. Entries of cased pencils exported by Dixon will be liquidated without regard to antidumping duties, and they will no longer be subject to a cash deposit requirement. The partial revocation is effective July 18.

The Commerce Department published notices in the July 16 Federal Register on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):

In the July 3 issue of the Customs Bulletin (Vol. 47, No. 28), CBP published two notices of revocation of rulings and treatment regarding drawback of processed prunes and the classification of valve cable supports.

While the decision to rescind General System of Preferences (GSP) status for Bangladesh is considered to be largely symbolic, the change is expected to reverberate among the U.S. business community, observers say. Although individual U.S. interests vary depending on scope and scale of specific relationships with Bangladeshi manufacturers, some U.S. importers will likely be forced to foster different manufacturing sources in the coming months. The United States Trade Representative (USTR) decided in late June to rescind GSP status for the South Asian nation (see 13062820) following a series of labor disasters in Bangladesh over the past year, culminating in the April 24 Rana Plaza factory fire that claimed nearly 1,200 lives

The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on frozen warmwater shrimp from Thailand (A-549-822). The agency rescinded the review for 12 companies that didn't export to the U.S. during the period of review. But it assigned zero AD rates to 149 other Thai companies, including mandatory respondents Marine Gold and Thai Union, as well as 147 non-individually reviewed companies.

A U.S. producer and importer of diamond sawblades asked the International Trade Commission to consider whether the antidumping duty order on diamond sawblades from China should be revoked. Husqvarna Construction Products North America on July 11 requested an ITC changed circumstances review to revisit the trade agency’s 2008 finding of threat of injury by Chinese imports. According to the self-described “largest domestic producer of diamond sawblades,” shifts in the industry have reduced competition between foreign and domestic products. And the 2008 injury finding was voided by Commerce’s revocation of the AD order on diamond sawblades from South Korea in 2011, Husqvarna said.

In the July 3 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 47, No. 28), CBP published two notices of revocation of rulings and treatment regarding drawback of processed prunes and the classification of valve cable supports.

In the July 3 issue of the CBP Customs Bulletin (Vol. 47, No. 28), CBP published a notices that proposes to revoke rulings and similar treatment regarding the tariff classification of Aquadoodle draw and doodle mats.