The country of origin for imported components of the "Nikola’s Tre Bev, class 8, battery-electric semi-truck" is the U.S. for government procurement purposes, as the parts undergo a substantial transformation when assembled into an electric truck, CBP said. The components lose their individual identity and become an "integral part" of a new article with a new name, character and use.
The Court of International Trade on May 9 allowed a case to proceed against the Commerce Department's pause of antidumping and countervailing duties on Southeast Asian solar panels, rejecting motions to dismiss from the government and nine solar cell importers and exporters.
The Court of International Trade on May 8 sent back the Commerce Department's treatment of antidumping duty respondent Assan Aluminyum's raw material costs and hedging revenues due to issues in how the agency addressed the elements contemporaneously in the AD investigation on aluminum foil from Turkey.
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated May 6 with the following headquarters rulings (ruling revocations and modifications will be detailed elsewhere in a separate article as they are announced in the Customs Bulletin):