The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
Customs law firm Stein Shostak withdrew from its representation of importer Cozy Comfort Company in the company's lawsuit regarding the classification of its product, The Comfy, an oversized pullover. The case will continue to be litigated by Chris Duncan, a former Stein Shostak partner, who has moved to Squire Patton.
In a Jan. 5 reply, importer Scottsdale Tobacco disagreed that it hadn’t offered the necessary documentation to support a substitution of unused merchandise drawback for certain 2018 and 2019 entries -- it had done so in its motion for judgment, which was all it needed to do for an issue the Court of International Trade hears de novo, it said (Scottsdale Tobacco v. United States, CIT # 24-00022).
A recent antidumping petition on fresh winter strawberries from Mexico highlights a rarely used provision of the antidumping statute that allows the International Trade Commission to narrow the injury analysis to only a particular region in the U.S. Trade lawyers told us that there's clear statutory authority for a regional injury petition, but that the analysis may require a more pervasive showing of injury throughout the affected industry than an ordinary, nationwide injury analysis.
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
In the Dec. 31 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 59, No. 49), CBP published proposals to revoke a ruling letter relating to the tariff classification of a combination automotive fuel pump and fuel level sensor.
The Court of International Trade on Jan. 5 granted stipulated judgments in a trio of cases from importer Jing Mei Automotive (USA) regarding the company's entries of rear drive axle covers and front axle covers (Jing Mei Automotive (USA) v. United States, CIT #s 14-00281, 14-00060, 14-00003).
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
Importer Cozy Comfort Company asked the Court of International Trade to designate its lead case on the classification of The Comfy, an oversized pullover, as a test case (Cozy Comfort Company v. United States, CIT #s 23-00003, 22-00173).
The Commerce Department properly used the financial statements of manufacturer PT Suparma to calculate respondent Go-Pak Vietnam's surrogate values and used a simple average of Harmonized Tariff Schedule subheadings 4810.32.90 and 4810.92.90, the US argued in a reply to Go-Pak's motion for judgment at the Court of International Trade (Go-Pak Paper Products Vietnam v. United States, CIT # 25-00070).