The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
CBP's regulations regarding the notice provided to importers subject to Enforce and Protect Act investigations and when CBP must initiate those investigations violated an importer's due process rights, the Court of International Trade held on Nov. 26.
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The High Court of Singapore will consider whether an arbitral award can be enforced in Singapore in light of U.S. sanctions on the party slated to receive the award. Earlier this month, Judge Thomas Bathurst declined to first and separately consider whether the enforcement of the award is contrary to Singapore's public policy due to the sanctions, opting instead to consider that question along with the other elements of the arbitral dispute.
The U.S. arrested two U.S. citizens and two Chinese nationals last week after accusing them of using a purported Florida real estate firm, an Alabama distributor and nearly $4 million in wire transfers to buy and illegally export “cutting edge” chips to China.
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
Steel plate exporters Hyundai Steel and Dongkuk Steel Mill filed a pair of reply briefs at the Court of International Trade on Nov. 20, contesting the Commerce Department's de facto specificity regarding South Korea's discounted off-peak electricity prices in the 2022 administrative review of the countervailing duty order on cut-to-length carbon-quality steel plate from South Korea. Both companies contested Commerce's grouping of three unrelated industries to find that the steel industry received a disproportionate amount of the subsidy (Hyundai Steel v. United States, CIT Consol. # 24-00190).
The Commerce Department failed to provide notice of any reporting deficiencies related to antidumping duty respondent Fuzhou Hengli Paper Co.'s paperboard input reporting, and the agency was on notice of any alleged deficiency, since the respondent's reporting methodology was "obvious," Fuzhou Hengli argued in a Nov. 17 reply brief at the Court of International Trade (Fuzhou Hengli Paper v. United States, CIT # 25-00064).
The trade court must remand the Commerce Department’s determination that ceramic tile from India was neither dumped nor subsidized, because Commerce wrongly failed to collapse or find affiliation for multiple respondents, a petitioner said in a Nov. 17 motion for judgment (Coalition for Fair Trade in Ceramic Tile v. United States, CIT # 25-00095).
After the U.S. requested sanctions against a steel wire hanger importer for failing to respond to its complaint (see 2510300049), the importer -- being sued for allegedly dodging duties -- finally filed its amended answer Nov. 14 (United States v. Zhe “John” Liu, CIT # 22-00215, 23-00116, 24-00132).