The Court of International Trade on Dec. 22 sustained the Commerce Department's remand results in an antidumping duty case in which the agency was told to verify a Thai mattress importer's data "insofar as the Department relied upon that data." Judge M. Miller Baker noted because the importer, Saffron Living Co., withdrew from the case and no remaining party opposes the remand results, the court will uphold the results and the associated 763.28% antidumping duty rate for Saffron.
Plaintiffs in the massive ongoing Section 301 litigation "ignore" the president's role in imposing the China tariffs, the U.S. said last week, arguing that the thousands of companies leading the case would have the court impose an improper standard of review (HMTX Industries v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 23-1891).
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
A Kansas business owner pleaded guilty Dec. 19 for his part in a scheme to violate U.S. export laws by filing false export forms and shipping "sophisticated and controlled" avionics equipment to Russian customers without export licenses, DOJ announced. Cyril Buyanovsky, owner of KanRus Trading Co. also agreed to forfeit over $450,000 worth of avionics equipment along with a $50,000 personal forfeiture. He faces a maximum of 25 years in prison.
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 Dec. 14-15 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):
A customs broker may generate an invoice from elements provided from an electronic data interchange (EDI) transmission, as long as the invoice meets the timing and content requirements found in the customs regulations, CBP said in a recent ruling.
The U.S. this week charged Hossein Hatefi Ardakani and Gary Lam with export violations after DOJ said they helped illegally procure hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of U.S. and foreign-made components for Iran. Along with the indictment, the two were sanctioned by the Treasury Department for using companies across several countries to buy parts for Iran’s unmanned drone program.
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
Greek exporter Corinth Pipeworks Pipe Industry had "multiple opportunities" to submit the proper reconciliation information in an antidumping duty review "but refused to do so," justifying the Commerce Department's decision to impose adverse facts available, the U.S. government told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit last week (Corinth Pipeworks Pipe Industry v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 23-2094).