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.
CBP released its March 2 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 56, No. 8), which includes the following ruling actions:
The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that in automatic five-year sunset reviews scheduled to begin in April it will consider revoking the antidumping duty 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). 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 released Feb. 28.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on aluminum extrusions from China (A-570-967/C-570-968) and stainless steel sheet and strip from China (A-570-042/C-570-043), as well as the antidumping duty orders pure magnesium from China (A-570-832), R-134 from China (A-570-044) and phosphor copper from South Korea (A-580-085), Commerce said in a notice released Feb. 28.
In the Feb. 16 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 56, No. 6), CBP published a proposal to revoke rulings on cookie assortments.