The International Trade Administration has announced that the International Trade Commission’s 2004 preliminary negative injury determination has been reversed by Court order, in the antidumping duty investigation of polyvinyl alcohol from Taiwan.
Court of International Trade
The United States Court of International Trade is a federal court which has national jurisdiction over civil actions regarding the customs and international trade laws of the United States. The Court was established under Article III of the Constitution by the Customs Courts Act of 1980. The Court consists of nine judges appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate and is located in New York City. The Court has jurisdiction throughout the United States and has exclusive jurisdictional authority to decide civil action pertaining to international trade against the United States or entities representing the United States.
In Canex International Lumber Sales Ltd., v. U.S., the Court of International Trade ruled that cut lumber, with an angle cut on one end and a square cut on the other end was properly classified as sawn wood under Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) 4407.10.0015 free of duty, and not as roof trusses under 4418.90.4020 at 3.2% ad valorem, or as other articles of wood under 4421.90.9840 at 3.3% ad valorem.
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a finding by the Court of International Trade in favor of an International Trade Administration determination that mixed-wax candles imported by Target Corporation from China are “later-developed merchandise” that are legitimately included in the AD order on petroleum wax candles from China.
The Court of International Trade (CIT) decided the following antidumping and countervailing duty law determination in the first half of June 2010.
On June 17, 2010, the Court of International Trade denied U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s request to reconsider1 its January 2010 remand decision, which ruled that broker penalties2 could not be imposed against UPS Customhouse Brokerage, Inc., as CBP had failed to prove at trial that it had considered all ten 19 CFR 111.1 factors when evaluating whether UPS had maintained responsible supervision and control.
In Michael Simon Design, Inc., Tru 8 d/b/a Arriviste, Inc., and Target Stores (a division of Target Corporation), v. U.S., the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Court of International Trade’s refusal to review a new Chapter 95 note added to the U.S. Harmonized Tariff Schedule by Presidential Proclamation.
On June 17, 2010, the Court of International Trade denied the request of U.S. Customs and Border Protection that it reconsider its remand decision denying the government's request for a rehearing to recover $75,000 in penalties imposed by CBP against UPS, for its alleged failure to exercise responsible supervision and control over its customs brokerage business.
In Pacific Northwest Equipment, Inc., v. U.S., the Court of International Trade ruled that platform containers are free of duty under Harmonized Tariff Schedule subheading 8609.00.00, as containers specially designed and equipped for carriage by one or more modes of transport, and not under subheading 7326.90.85 as an article of iron or steel at 2.9% ad valorem.
In Dell Products LP, v. U.S., the Court of International Trade agreed with U.S. Customs and Border Protection that secondary batteries were properly considered other storage batteries under Harmonized Tariff Schedule subheading 8507.80.80 at 3.4% ad valorem and not duty-free as portable digital automatic data processing machines under HTS 8471.30.00, the classification that applied to the notebook computers with which the batteries were packaged.
In a test case, Sparks Belting Company, v. U.S., the Court of International Trade ruled that certain “conveyor belts” designed and used for the conveyance of food and other products were properly classified in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule under 5903.10.20 as plastic coated textile fabrics at 1.7% ad valorem, or as plastic sheets combined with textile materials 3921.90.25 at 5.6% ad valorem.