USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has amended restrictions for importing tomatoes and peppers to reflect recent study findings on how the tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV) gets transported.
Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, said June 18 that he welcomes language included in the recent Group of Seven (G7) leaders’ communique expressing concern about Russia’s “environmentally unsustainable and unfair trading practices” for seafood.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website June 17, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.
The Court of International Trade dismissed importer Greentech Energy Solutions' challenge to antidumping and countervailing duties on Chinese solar cells to its Vietnamese solar cell entries for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction under Section 1581(i), the court's "residual" jurisdiction.
The International Trade Commission seeks comments by June 25 on a request from RAI and R.J. Reynolds for a Section 337 exclusion order banning all imports of disposable vaporizer devices that infringe on their patents, the ITC said in a notice published June 17. In their June 11 complaint, RAI and R.J. Reynolds identified 42 infringing companies, mostly in the U.S. and China, and requested cease and desist orders against them.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on lightweight thermal paper from China (A-570-920). The agency assigned all three exporters under review -- Guangdong Guanhao High-Tech, Guangdong Polygon New Materials, and Henan Jianghe Paper -- to the China-wide entity, with an AD rate of 115.29%. Any changes to cash deposit rates for Guangdong Guanhao, Guangdong Polygon and Henan Jianghe would take effect on the publication date of the final results of this review, currently due in October. If the three companies continue to get the China-wide rate in the final results, Commerce will assess AD duties at 115.29% on importers of subject merchandise from each company entered between Nov. 1, 2022, and Oct. 31, 2023.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into modules, from China (C-570-980). These final results will be used to set final assessments of CV duties on importers for entries between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2021.
The House of Representatives last week approved a proposal that would require the administration to write a report to help Congress better understand U.S. reliance on Chinese-made ocean shipping containers, a situation highlighted by supply chain constraints that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Washington state importer Tip the Scale, doing businesses as L & D Kitchen and Bath, pleaded guilty and was sentenced on June 14 for "making false declarations" on the "species and harvest location" of timber it used in its wooden cabinets and vanities, DOJ announced.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website June 14, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.