Changes to an entry date due to CBP modifications of an entry summary don't affect the time of entry for the purposes of assessing Section 301 tariffs, CBP said in a ruling released by the agency Nov. 28.
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Bed Bath & Beyond filed a complaint with the Federal Maritime Commission this week accusing Mediterranean Shipping Company of violating the terms of a service contract and unjustly assessing millions of dollars in detention and demurrage charges. The company said MSC failed to meet its service requirements, coerced Bed Bath & Beyond into paying "extracontractual prices and surcharges," and assessed fees when Bed Bath & Beyond couldn't pick up or return the containers.
The current scope of ongoing antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on aluminum extrusions from 15 countries would impose heavy costs on U.S. manufacturers and consumers, and as written would make it nearly impossible for CBP to administer and importers to comply, said a bevy of large multinational corporations and trade associations in comments filed recently filed with the Commerce Department.
A USMCA dispute settlement panel ruled in Canada’s favor in a much-awaited second decision on Canada’s dairy tariff rate quotas, according to a report released by the panel on Nov. 24.
Four styles of womens' and girls' knit upper body garments are classifiable in different subheadings depending on whether the waistband at the bottom of the garments is tight to the body, CBP said in a recent ruling. The ruling, dated Nov. 14, found that one of the women's and the girls' style provided a way to be tightened at the bottom and were classifiable as "other" sweaters, pullovers and waistcoats, while the other two women's styles could not be tightened and are classifiable as blouses or shirts.
CBP has been threatening ports that it will reduce its presence or even pull out of ports if those ports don't upgrade work space, members of Congress say, and a recently introduced bipartisan bill aims to put a stop to it.
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The Court of International Trade on Nov. 21 upheld the Commerce Department's order to CBP to assess antidumping duties on exporter Goodluck India's entries subject to the third administrative review of the antidumping duty order on cold-drawn mechanical tubing of carbon and alloy steel from India despite a previous order provisionally excluding the entries from the AD order. Judge Gary Katzmann found Goodluck's previous entries, but not the exporter itself, were excluded from the order.
The text of a recent letter sent to the White House by Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Bob Casey, D-Pa., suggests that they have been told there will be reductions in Section 301 tariffs, and they said in the letter that they have serious concerns that these reductions "will enable China and other global competitors to resume their anti-competitive activities without consequences. While not the subject of interagency review, we share similar concerns about reductions in 232 tariffs, as well as related actions that would undermine American steel and aluminum producers as a result of negotiations with the European Union on the Global Arrangement on Sustainable Steel and Aluminum."