The Court of International Trade on July 18 granted the government's motion for default judgment against importer Rayson Global and its owner Doris Cheng, ordering the defendants to pay a civil penalty totaling nearly $3.4 million along with all duties, taxes and fees that remain unpaid on the unliquidated entries of mattress innersprings at issue in the case. Judge Timothy Stanceu granted the motion for default judgment after previously rejecting the government's valuation of the merchandise due to its lack of factual support. This time around, Stanceu found that the U.S. properly pleaded that Rayson and Cheng negligently declared their Chinese-origin innerspring as being from Thailand, avoiding ordinary 6% duties, Section 301 duties and 234.51% antidumping duties.

The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:

Exporters BYD (H.K.), Canadian Solar International and Canadian Solar Manufacturing (Thailand) will appeal a pair of May Court of International Trade decisions finding that various exporters circumvented the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders on Chinese solar cells by sending their products through Thailand and Cambodia (see 2505160045). In both decisions, the trade court upheld Commerce's decision to put special emphasis on the amount of research and development investment the companies put into their Thai facilities to show that the companies' processes in the country were "minor or insignificant."

The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:

Exporter Trina Solar Science & Technology will appeal a May Court of International Trade decision in which the court held that the Commerce Department properly found that exporters Canadian Solar and Trina Solar circumvented the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders on Chinese solar cells by sending their products through Thailand (see 2505160045). The trade court sustained the agency's decision to place special emphasis on the amount of research and development investment put into the companies' Thai facilities to show that the companies' processes in the country were "minor or insignificant." Trina will take the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Trina Solar Science & Technology (Thailand) v. United States, CIT # 23-00227).

The Commerce Department released July 9 its remand results of a scope ruling on calcium glycinate from India, Japan and Thailand. It said it now finds that calcium glycinate is covered by antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders on glycine “regardless of the producer, exporter, or importer” (Deer Park Glycine, LLC v. U.S., CIT # 23-00238).

The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:

A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website July 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 U.S. will increase blanket reciprocal tariff rates for countries that haven’t received a tariff letter to 15% or 20%, President Donald Trump said in a phone interview with NBC News July 10, the broadcast news outlet reported.

The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register July 10 on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CVD rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):