In the Feb. 5 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 54, No. 4), CBP published a notice that proposes to revoke 29 and modify 22 rulings on drink mixes.
CBP released its Feb. 5 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 54, No. 4), which includes the following ruling actions:
The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that next month it will consider revoking the antidumping duty orders on prestressed concrete steel wire strand from Brazil, India, Japan, Mexico, South Korea and Thailand (A-351-837, A-533-828, A-588-068, A-201-831, A-580-852, A-549-820); tetrafuryl alcohol from China (A-570-887); and commodity matchbooks from India (A-533-848); as well as the countervailing duty orders on prestressed concrete steel wire strand from India (C-533-829) and commodity matchbooks from India (C-533-849); in automatic five-year sunset reviews scheduled to begin in March 2020. These orders will be revoked unless Commerce finds that revocation would lead to a continuation or recurrence of dumping and the International Trade Commission finds that revocation would result in continuation or recurrence of material injury to a U.S. industry.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on kitchen appliance shelving and racks from China (A-570-941/C-570-942).
CBP published notices in the Customs Bulletin revoking or modifying numerous rulings in 2019. 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 2019 are as follows:
The following is a selection of articles that appeared in International Trade Today in 2019 covering ruling letters. CBP frequently publishes rulings months after they are issued, so these articles are included based on the dates the articles were published, rather than the date the ruling letter was issued.
CBP published several thousand prospective rulings in 2019 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.
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated on Jan. 28. The following headquarters rulings not involving carriers were modified on Jan. 27 or 28, according to CBP:
In the Jan. 2 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 53, No. 48), CBP published notices that propose to revoke or modify rulings and similar treatment for document holders.
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated with 43 rulings on Jan. 9. The following headquarters rulings not involving carriers were modified on Jan. 9, according to CBP: