CBP released its Feb. 10 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 55, No. 5), which includes the following ruling actions:

The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Feb. 8. The following headquarters rulings were modified recently, according to CBP:

President Joe Biden reversed a Trump administration decision to move from 10% tariffs to quotas on aluminum exported from the United Arab Emirates. The proclamation, published Feb. 1, noted that imports of aluminum have “substantially decreased” since the imposition of Section 232 tariffs, and that imports from the UAE fell by 25%. Trade data says that imports of aluminum fell 8% from 2018 to 2019; they fell 10% from 2017 to 2018, the year the tariffs began.

The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that in an automatic five-year sunset review next month it will consider revoking the antidumping duty order on pressure sensitive plastic tape from Italy (A-475-059). This order 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 Feb. 1.

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping duty orders on uncoated paper from Australia (A-602-807), Brazil (A-351-842), China (A-570-022), Indonesia (A-560-828) and Portugal (A-471-807); floor-standing, metal-top ironing tables from China (A-570-888); potassium permanganate from China (A-570-001); and seamless carbon and alloy steel standard, line and pressure pipe from China (A-570-956); as well as the countervailing duty orders on uncoated paper from China (C-570-023) and Indonesia (C-560-829); and seamless carbon and alloy steel standard, line and pressure pipe from China (C-570-957).

CBP published notices in the Customs Bulletin revoking or modifying numerous rulings in 2020. These ruling revocations and modifications also apply to “any treatment previously accorded by CBP to substantially identical transactions.” When revoking or modifying a ruling, CBP is required by 19 USC 1625(c) to publish notice of the proposed action, and allow a period—generally one month—for comment before finalizing the action. An importer’s failure to advise CBP of “substantially identical transactions” or of a ruling not identified by CBP in these notices “may raise issues of reasonable care on the part of the importer or its agents for importations of merchandise subsequent to the effective date of this notice.” Rulings CBP revoked or modified in 2020 are as follows:

CBP published several thousand prospective rulings in 2020 on its Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) database. The agency issues its rulings from either the National Commodity Specialist Division in New York, which handles issues like classification, country of origin, marking and preferential treatment, or the Office of Regulations and Rulings at CBP headquarters in Washington, D.C., which may also decide other issues, such as valuation, drawback, exclusion order enforcement and liquidation.

In the Dec. 30 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 54, No. 51), CBP published notices that propose to modify rulings on thermoelectric wine cooler display cabinets.

The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that in automatic five-year sunset reviews next month it will consider revoking the antidumping duty orders on uncoated paper from Australia (A-602-807), Brazil (A-351-842), China (A-570-022), Indonesia (A-560-828) and Portugal (A-471-807); floor-standing, metal-top ironing tables from China (A-570-888); potassium permanganate from China (A-570-001); and seamless carbon and alloy steel standard, line and pressure pipe from China (A-570-956); as well as the countervailing duty orders on uncoated paper from China (C-570-023) and Indonesia (C-560-829); and seamless carbon and alloy steel standard, line and pressure pipe from China (C-570-957). 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 Jan. 5.

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping duty orders on magnesia carbon bricks from China and Mexico (A-570-954, A-201-837), and the countervailing duty order on magnesia carbon bricks from China (C-570-955).