The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders on calcium hypochlorite from China (A-570-008/C-570-009), collated steel staples from China (A-570-112/C-570-113) and lightweight thermal paper from China (A-570-920/C-570-921), as well as the antidumping duty order on electrolytic manganese dioxide from China (A-570-979), Commerce said in a notice June 2.

In the May 28 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 59, No. 22), CBP published a proposal to revoke a ruling letter concerning the tariff classification of molybdenum disulphide powder.

Gibson Dunn brought a suit to the Court of International Trade on behalf of a small Michigan-based importer, Detroit Axle, to challenge President Donald Trump's revocation of the de minimis threshold for Chinese goods. The complaint, filed on May 16, argues that Trump exceeded his statutory authority in eliminating de minimis for goods from China and acted arbitrarily and capriciously in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act (Axle of Dearborn, d/b/a Detroit Axle v. Dep't of Commerce, CIT # 25-00091).

CBP cannot unilaterally decide to reliquidate entries that were erroneously liquidated while subject to a suspension order from the Court of International Trade, the trade court held on May 8. Judge Gary Katzmann said an "enjoined party is not empowered to choose and implement the remedy for its own violations of an injunction," writing that that power is the court's alone.

The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that in automatic five-year sunset reviews scheduled to begin in June it will consider revoking the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on calcium hypochlorite from China (A-570-008/C-570-009), collated steel staples from China (A-570-112/C-570-113) and lightweight thermal paper from China (A-570-920/C-570-921), as well as the antidumping duty order on electrolytic manganese dioxide from China (A-570-979). These orders will be revoked, or the investigation terminated, unless Commerce finds that revocation would lead to dumping and the International Trade Commission finds that revocation would result in injury to the U.S. industry, Commerce said.

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders on carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod from China (A-570-012/C-570-013), ceramic tile from China (A-570-108/C-570-109) and quartz surface products from Turkey and India (A-489-837/C-489-838, A-533-889/C-533-890), as well as the antidumping duty order on silicon metal from Russia (A-821-817), Commerce said in a notice May 1.

In a town hall call-in appearance April 30, President Donald Trump said that his administration has “potential” tariff deals negotiated with South Korea, Japan and India, but said they weren’t in a hurry to announce them -- “it can wait two weeks.”

CBP has released its April 9 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 59, No. 15). It contains the following ruling actions:

In the March 26 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 59, No. 13), CBP published a proposal to revoke a ruling letter concerning the tariff classification of a 7100PP-R-xM RCMM optical patch panel from China.

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began a five-year sunset review of the countervailing duty order on chlorinated isocyanurates from China (C-570-991), Commerce said in a notice April 1.