Plaintiff tomato exporter Bioparques de Occidente, the U.S. and defendant-intervenor the Florida Tomato Exchange each supported Jan. 7 the Commerce Department’s redetermination on remand in a case involving a 27-year-old antidumping duty investigation after a consolidated plaintiff opposed it (see 2412040052) (Bioparques de Occidente v. United States, CIT Consol. # 19-00204).
Importer Florida Power & Light Company argued Jan. 9 that the Commerce Department had unreasonably elevated one country-of-origin factor -- research and development -- in importance above the other four in an antidumping duty review of solar cells from Cambodia (see 2412260039) (BYD (H.K.) Co. v. U.S., CIT # 23-00221).
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
In a Jan. 8 complaint at the Court of International Trade, exporter Zhejiang Dingli Machinery challenged the results of the first administrative review of the antidumping duty order on Chinese-origin mobile access equipment (Zhejiang Dingli Machinery v. United States, CIT # 24-00221).
The Court of International Trade on Jan. 8 denied the government's bid for default judgment against importer Rayson Global and its owner and CEO Doris Cheng in a customs penalty case, with Judge Timothy Stanceu taking issue with the U.S. claim for a monetary penalty totaling nearly $3.4 million.
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
The U.S. Jan. 6 supported the Commerce Department’s final results in an Indian off-road tires countervailing duty review against attacks from petitioner Titan Tire. A mandatory respondent didn’t receive the benefit of import duty exemptions from the Indian government, it said (Titan Tire Corporation v. U.S., CIT # 23-00233).
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Jan. 8 heard oral argument in the massive Section 301 litigation, primarily probing the litigants' positions regarding how to interpret the term "modify" in the statute and whether the statute allows the U.S. trade representative to impose duties in response to retaliatory measures from China (HMTX Industries v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 23-1891).
The Court of International Trade on Jan. 8 denied the government's motion for default judgment in a customs penalty suit on importer Rayson Global and its owner Doris Cheng. Judge Timothy Stanceu said the U.S. failed to provide facts to support its claim that the domestic value of the imported innersprings subject to the dispute amounted to $3,381,607.03. The judge said he couldn't reconcile the products' entered value of $945,922 with the government's alleged domestic value of the goods. The government sought a penalty, in the amount of $3,381,607.03, against Rayson and Cheng for allegedly falsely declaring the country of origin of innersprings from China.
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York: