The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Aug. 5 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):
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Bergan Pets and the federal government reached an agreement surrounding the correct classification of imported pet carriers, according to a stipulated judgment agreement, signed by Judge Gary Katzmann on July 25 (Bergan Pets v. U.S., CIT #15-00134). Bergan imported the items in October 2012 through Kansas City. CBP liquidated the merchandise in 2013 under the subheading 4202.92.90, as "travel, sports or similar bags," and assessed 17.6% duties. Bergan filed three protests in 2014, all of which were denied, before filing suit at CIT. Both sides have agreed that the correct classification should be under subheading 6307.90.98 as "Other made up articles, including dress patterns: Other: Other," dutiable at 7%.
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:
Court of International Trade Judge Leo Gordon ruled against importer Cyber Power Systems in four motions -- two from Cyber Power, and two from the government -- in a case regarding the country of origin of imported surgery protectors (Cyber Power Systems v. U.S., CIT #20-00124).
In the Aug. 3 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 56, No. 30), CBP published a proposal to revoke a ruling on insulated lunch bags.
The International Trade Commission erred in its determination that mattress imports injured the domestic industry and again when it argued in its defense at the Court of International Trade, importer CVB said in an August 1 brief at the Court of International Trade (CVB v. United States, CIT #21-00288).
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
CBP, in closely linked cases, determined that there is substantial evidence that importers Starille, Nutrawave and Newtrend USA evaded antidumping and countervailing duty orders on glycine from China (EAPA Consolidated Case No. 7647), while there was a lack of substantial evidence that the same importers evaded an AD order on glycine from Thailand (EAPA Consolidated Case No. 7663).
Various models of uninterruptable power supplies and surge voltage protectors were substantially transformed by manufacturing operations in the Philippines and should be required to be marked as "Products of China," Cyber Power Systems said in an Aug. 1 motion at the Court of International Trade (Cyber Power Systems v. U.S., CIT #20-00124).