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Timothy Warren is Executive Managing Editor of Communications Daily. He previously led the International Trade Today editorial team from the time it was purchased by Warren Communications News in 2012 through the launch of Export Compliance Daily and Trade Law Daily. Tim is a 2005 graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts and lives in Maryland with his wife and three kids.
International Trade Today is providing readers with the top stories from Sept. 28-Oct. 2 in case they were missed. All articles can be found by searching on the titles or by clicking on the hyperlinked reference number.
Plastic head-shaped lollipop holders imported separately from lollipops meet the required standards for classification as toys in heading 9503, CBP said in a ruling released Oct. 2. The ruling request came from lawyers for Imaginings 3, which imports the lollipop holders, the agency said. The merchandise was then being entered at the Port of Chicago “and so we have converted the ruling request to an internal advice request for entries not yet liquidated,” CBP said in the ruling, dated July 31.
A combination of “inconsistent reviews” and the “reliance on importers’ self-reported data” within the CBP reconciliation process leaves millions of dollars at risk, the Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General said in a report released Oct. 2. “CBP also missed opportunities to maximize revenue because of inadequate reporting on importers who filed reconciliation entries late or did not file at all,” it said. CBP took issue with parts of the OIG report, it said in a response.
Canada published its notice for now-suspended plans to implement retaliatory tariffs on aluminum goods from the U.S. in the Sept. 30 Canada Gazette, Part II. Canada was set to apply the tariffs once the U.S. tariffs on goods from Canada took effect on Sept. 16, but after the U.S. decided Sept. 15 not to implement its tariffs, Canada said it would follow suit (see 2009150048). “Given the timing of the U.S. announcement on September 15, 2020, just hours before Canada’s planned announcement of surtaxes entering into effect, the Order in Council to impose surtaxes (the “Surtax Order”) was already approved and set to enter into force on September 16, 2020,” a Department of Finance Canada spokesperson said.
CBP posted multiple documents ahead of the Oct. 7 Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) meeting:
The Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) Intelligent Enforcement Subcommittee offered some broad enforcement process improvement suggestions as part of a white paper on CBP's “intelligent enforcement modernization” efforts. CBP posted the document ahead of the next COAC meeting Oct. 7. Among the “solutions” mentioned are changes to the Fines, Penalties and Forfeiture (FPF) branches and revisions to mitigation guidelines.
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The U.S. Court of International Trade should use a case management approach for the thousands of Section 301 tariff lawsuits (see 2009220027), similar to the approach used in the harbor maintenance tax (HMT) litigation that ended in 1998, said DOJ Wednesday in a motion (in Pacer) for case management procedures. That should include the selection of a "test case" and a stay of all other cases involved, DOJ said. The filing on behalf of all the Trump administration defendants was DOJ's first since HMTX Industries filed suit Sept.10 to force refunds of tariffs paid on Lists 3 and 4A goods from China and get the tariff rulemakings vacated (see 2009110041).
The Court of International Trade should use a case management approach for the numerous Section 301 tariff lawsuits similar to the one used for litigation over the harbor maintenance tax (HMT), the Department of Justice said in a Sept. 23 filing. That should include the selection of a “test case” and a stay of all other cases involved, DOJ said. The filing marks DOJ's first since HMTX Industries filed suit to force refunds of Section 301 tariffs paid on lists 3 and 4 goods from China (see 2009110005).