The U.S. defended its decision made on remand to include exporter Cheng Shin's temporary-use (T-type) tires within the scope of the antidumping duty order on passenger vehicle and light truck tires from Taiwan. Responding to comments from Cheng Shin on Dec. 22 at the Court of International Trade, the government said Commerce reasonably found that Cheng Shin's tires "are of a size that fits passenger cars and, therefore, are in-scope merchandise," and additionally don't qualify for the exclusion for temporary tires (United Steel Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC, v. United States, CIT # 24-00165).
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
The Commerce Department properly found that exporter Universal Quartz was ineligible to participate in the agency's certification process for verifying that quartz surface products from Malaysia weren't subject to the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders on the same goods from China, the U.S. argued. Filing a reply to importer AM Stone & Cabinets' motion for judgment at the Court of International Trade, the government also said that despite AM Stone's claim that Commerce impermissibly used adverse facts available, the agency didn't apply AFA (AM Stone & Cabinets v. United States, CIT # 24-00241).
The Commerce Department didn't reasonably support its decision to remove respondent PT. Zinus Global Indonesia's in-transit mattresses from its quarterly ratio calculations, since it relied on a "demonstrably inaccurate 'fact' to justify its decision," petitioners, led by Brooklyn Bedding, argued (PT. Zinus Global Indonesia v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 25-1674).
Importer Transvolt took to the Court of International Trade to argue that CBP unlawfully excluded its golf carts from entry based either on the notion that the golf carts fail to meet Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards or that the carts were transshipped through Vietnam. Transvolt filed a complaint on Dec. 22 in one of multiple cases the importer brought to contest the exclusion of multiple of its entries (Transvolt v. United States, CIT # 25-00582).
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
Importer Hardware Resources alerted the Court of International Trade to a recent scope ruling by the Commerce Department on feedstock for window blinds, arguing that it helps its case contesting Commerce's scope ruling on wood mouldings and millwork products (Hardware Resources v. United States, CIT # 23-00150).
China filed a request for consultations at the World Trade Organization about Indian tariffs on information and communication technology products and subsidy measures for high efficiency solar photovoltaic modules, the WTO said Dec. 23.
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
The Commerce Department didn't improperly "relitigate" a negative injury determination on freight rail couplers from China in its antidumping duty and countervailing duty investigations on the same product, the Court of International Trade held on Dec. 23. Judge Gary Katzmann said the second set of proceedings involving Chinese freight rail couplers differed from the first in three key ways: it covered different physical merchandise, it involved different countries of origin, and it involved a different period of review.