The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Sept. 12 on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department is setting new countervailing duty cash deposit requirements for imports of epoxy resin from China (C-570-167), India (C-533-927) and Taiwan (C-583-877), after finding countervailable subsidization of producers and exporters in the four countries in the preliminary determinations of its CV duty investigations. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect Sept. 13, 2024, for entries of subject merchandise from India, South Korea and Taiwan, and will take retroactive effect for entries from China as of June 15, 2024.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Sept. 12 on AD/CVD proceedings:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Sept. 10, 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 Commerce Department issued antidumping duty orders on mattresses from India (A-533-919), Kosovo (A-803-001), Mexico (A-201-859) and Spain (A-469-826). The orders detail a “gap period” of Aug. 28 - Sept. 3, 2024, of no AD duty liability.
China is beginning a review of its antidumping duties on imports of phenol from the U.S., the EU, South Korea, Japan and Thailand, but it will not review AD on phenol from the U.K., China’s Ministry of Commerce said Sept. 5, according to an unofficial translation. The ministry is accepting public comments within 20 days of Sept. 5 and said it plans to make a decision before Sept. 6, 2025. The current duties, in place since 2019, range from 244.3% to 287.2% for American companies, 30.4% for EU companies, 12.5% to 23.7% for South Korean companies, 19.3% to 27% for Japanese companies, and 10.6% to 28.6% for Thai companies. The ministry said no Chinese company requested that the AD be renewed for the U.K. China said phenol is an “important organic chemical raw material” used in synthetic fibers and for other industrial purposes.
The Department of Labor's Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) has 72 additions to its list of goods that could potentially be produced by forced labor or child labor, including a record 37 new goods that have not previously been identified as involving labor exploitation, ILAB said Sept. 5 in its latest edition of the List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Sept. 5 on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Sept. 5 on AD/CVD proceedings: