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:
CBP misclassified Home Depot U.S.A.'s imports of residential door knobs packaged with at least one deadbolt, Home Depot argued in two Oct. 31 complaints at the Court of International Trade. The retail giant originally launched the cases in 2014, just now bringing the complaints to the court to vie for a change in classification for the door knobs under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule, which would see the duty rates for the imports drop from 5.7% to 3.9% (Home Depot U.S.A. v. United States, CIT #14-00122, #14-00123).
The Court of International Trade in an Oct. 31 order dismissed a customs case after counsel for plaintiff Guangdong Hongteo Technology Co.'s second attempt to withdraw from the proceeding, given Hongteo's failure to respond to its counsel (Guangdong Hongteo Technology Co. v. United States, CIT #20-03776).
Specialty medical foods designed for infants and toddlers should be classified under Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the U.S. heading 2106 as "food preparations" rather than as "medicaments," DOJ argued in an Oct. 28 motion for summary judgment at the Court of International Trade (Nutricia North America v. U.S., CIT #16-00008).
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
CBP announced that it has opened a formal Enforce and Protect Act investigation into whether Zinus evaded antidumping and countervailing duty orders on chassis and subassemblies from China and has imposed interim measures, according to an Oct. 25 notice. The investigation was launched on July 20, following allegations by CIMC Intermodal Equipment LLC (CIMC) that Pitts Enterprises, Inc., classified imported chassis as products of Vietnam, without disclosing subassembly components of Chinese-origin.
Taylor Bates, former judicial law clerk at the Court of International Trade, joined CBP as an attorney in the Office of the Assistant Chief Counsel with the international trade litigation team, Bates announced on LinkedIn. At CBP, Bates will work on matters concerning the treatment of imports under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule and alleged violations of import laws and regulations. Aside from clerking for the trade court, Bates also carried out a judicial internship at CIT under Judge Claire Kelly. She graduated in 2021 from the Brooklyn Law School.
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
CBP announced that it has opened a formal Enforce and Protect Act investigation into whether Zinus evaded an antidumping duty order on wooden bedroom furniture from China and has imposed interim measures, according to an Oct. 24 notice. The investigation was launched on July 19 following allegations by CVB that Zinus used general product descriptions and misclassified Chinese wooden bedroom furniture as metal furniture in order to enter the furniture as uncovered merchandise.