The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated March 7 with the following headquarters rulings (ruling revocations and modifications will be detailed elsewhere in a separate article as they are announced in the Customs Bulletin):
The Court of International Trade should again remand the results of a countervailing duty investigation on carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate from South Korea to address allegations the Korean government provided off-peak electricity for less-than-adequate-remuneration, Nucor argued March 2 at the Court of International Trade. It also argued Commerce should reconsider whether to treat POSCO's affiliate, POSCO Plantec, as a cross-owned input supplier (Nucor v. U.S., CIT # 21-00182).
The Commerce Department correctly calculated production costs in its final determination in an antidumping duty investigation on raw honey from Argentina, DOJ said in its March 3 response to a motion for judgment at the Court of International Trade (Nexco v. United States, CIT # 22-00203).
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
The Court of International Trade should deny steel manufacturer Saha Thai's request for a revised dumping margin because the company failed to exhaust its administrative remedies, defendant-intervenors Wheatland Tube and Nucor Tubular said in a March 3 brief (Saha Thai Steel Pipe v. U.S., CIT # 21-00627).
A government counterclaim, based on classifications not used during the liquidation of the dried botanicals, should be barred by the finality of liquidation, importer Second Nature Designs argued in a March 2 brief at the Court of International Trade (Second Nature Designs v. United States, CIT # 18-00131).
CBP lacked sufficient evidence to begin an Enforce and Protect Act investigation on Phoenix Metal and then fabricated a conclusion that the company transshipped Chinese soil pipe through Cambodia, Phoenix said in a March 2 complaint at the Court of International Trade (Phoenix Metal v. U.S., CIT # 23-00048).
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
The Court of International Trade should sustain the Commerce Department's remand results after the agency further explained its surrogate value selection for coal-based carbonized materials and the financial statements used to calculate the surrogate financial ratios in the 2018-19 antidumping review on activated carbon, both DOJ and defendent-intervenors told CIT in separate responses submitted March 1 (Carbon Activated Tianjin Co. v. U.S., CIT # 21-00131).
A case involving the appraisal and correct tariff payments on six large stamping presses for automobile manufacturing has concluded in mediation, with all issues settled, according to a Feb 28 mediation report (Aida-America v. U.S., CIT # 18-00215).