The Commerce Department, on remand at the Court of International Trade, switched to using Brazilian surrogate value information to value antidumping duty respondent Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo and Wood Industry Co.'s non-oak log inputs. Changing course as part of the 2019-20 AD review of multilayered wood flooring from China, Commerce switched to using Brazilian data, the primary surrogate nation, after the trade court rejected its initial use of Malaysian data for the factors of production (Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo and Wood Industry Co. v. U.S., CIT # 22-00190).
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
Imported ether glycol used in the manufacture of high-performance polyurethane elastomers is a synthetic wax and properly classified as such rather than as an epoxy resin, importer Gantrade said in its Oct. 23 complaint at the Court of International Trade (Gantrade v. U.S., CIT # 21-00551).
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
A suit filed to contest the classification of photoresists and other chemical products should be tossed because the complaint was filed more than nine years after the denial of protests, DOJ said in an Oct. 20 motion to dismiss at the Court of International Trade (Tokyo Ohka Kogyo America v. U.S., CIT # 21-00371).
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
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 Oct. 16 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):
An automotive telematics device is properly classified as a "measuring or checking instrument" under Harmonized Tariff Schedule heading 9031 and not as a "telephone" under heading 8517, according to a recent ruling by CBP headquarters.
Imported wood and metal seats met the requirements for Section 301 tariff exclusions but had those duties unlawfully levied upon them by CBP, Georgia-based furniture importer and wholesaler Belnick said in its Oct. 17 complaint at the Court of International Trade (Belnick v. U.S., CIT # 23-00072).