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 in Nov. 17 remand results submitted to the Court of International Trade further explained its surrogate value selection for coal-based carbonized materials and Malaysian company Bravo Green's 2018 financial statements to calculate the surrogate financial ratios in an antidumping duty case (Carbon Activated Tianjin Co. v. United States, CIT #21-00131).
Importer Viewtech Inc. on Nov. 16 filed a notice of dismissal in 10 of its tariff classification cases at the Court of International Trade. Filed between 2008 and 2011, the cases concerned the classification of Viewtech's digital satellite receivers. CBP liquidated the entries under Harmonized Tariff Schedule subheadings 8528.12.97 or 8528.71.40, though the importer claimed they should be classified under subheadings 8528.12.92 or 8528.71.20 (Viewtech Inc. v. United States, CIT #s 08-00250, 08-00252, 08-00253, 08-00254, 09-00116, 09-00146, 09-00173, 09-00419, 10-00112, 11-00008).
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
The following lawsuits were recently filed at the Court of International Trade:
Size-reduction machinery should be classified as duty-free machines for "crushing, grinding, or screening" rather than as "other electromechanical" machines, dutiable at 2.5%, importer Vecoplan said in a Nov. 14 motion for summary judgment at the Court of International Trade (Vecoplan v. United States # 20-00126).
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Nov. 10 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 in a Nov 10 order dismissed a customs case from Incipio Technologies concerning the classification of its wristlets and media player covers. CBP classified the merchandise under Harmonized Tariff Schedule subheadings 4202.22.1500, dutiable at 16%, and 3926.10.0000, dutiable at 5.3%. Incipio says it should have instead been classified under subheadings 4202.32.1000, dutiable at 4.6% + 12.1 cents per kilogram, and 8473.30.5100, free of duty, or 8522.90.7580 dutiable at 2% (Incipio Technologies v. U.S., CIT #17-00188).
CBP announced that it has initiated and consolidated two Enforce and Protect Act investigations into whether Gorilla Paper, Inc. and Gorilla Supply (Gorilla) evaded antidumping duty on thermal paper from Germany and South Korea, according to a notice dated Nov. 3. The announcement followed evasion allegations by Paper Receipts Converting Association (PRCA) and the subsequent investigation began on July 29.