The International Trade Administration and the International Trade Commission initiated the five-year Sunset Review of the antidumping duty order on sodium hexametaphosphate from China (A-570-908).
The International Trade Administration published notices in the Jan. 30 Federal Register on the following AD/CV proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
Notice of Agreements Filed (here)
The Federal Maritime Commission said the following have filed applications for a license as a Non-Vessel-Operating Common Carrier (NVO) and/or Ocean Freight Forwarder (OFF)-Ocean Transportation Intermediary (OTI) pursuant to section 19 of the Shipping Act of 1984. The FMC also gave notice of the filing of applications to amend an existing OTI license or the qualifying individual for a license. Interested persons may contact the Office of Transportation Intermediaries, Federal Maritime Commission, Washington, D.C. 20573, at 202-523-5843 or at OTI@fmc.gov.
The U.S. government appealed the Court of International Trade’s November ruling in International Custom Products v. U.S. on the legality of rate advancing entries of merchandise subject to ruling letters, without a notice and comment period. The case has been ongoing since 2005, after CBP issued a Notice of Action increasing ICP's duty liability on some white sauce entries by 2,400 percent, despite having issued a contrary ruling letter in 1999 on ICP's white sauce. After the appeals court overturned a CIT ruling against CBP on jurisdiction concerns, ICP filed its current challenge in 2007, arguing that the Notice of Action was in fact a revocation of the 1999 ruling letter, and CBP should have allowed for notice and comment pursuant to 19 USC 1625.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Jan. 16, 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.)
In the Jan. 9 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 47, No. 3), CBP a notice of revocation of rulings and treatment regarding the duty-free treatment of reimported tires and camera parts.
Notice of Agreements Filed (here)
In the Jan. 9 issue of the CBP Bulletin (Vol. 47, No. 3), CBP published a notice proposing to revoke rulings and similar treatment regarding the tariff classification of docking stations with built-in radios for MP3 players.
CBP issued its Jan. 9 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 47, No. 3), which contains two notices of the following ruling actions: