Colony Gums and Marine Hydrocolloids evaded an antidumping duty order on xanthan gum from China, CBP said in the final determination of an Enforce and Protect Act investigation. The agency said it found substantial evidence that the importers had transshipped Chinese-origin xanthan gum through India, necessitating the imposition of interim measures.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Dec. 5, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.
CBP posted FY 2023 Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act (also known as the "Byrd Amendment") annual reports. Among other things, CBP lists only $24,147 in antidumping or countervailing duties that are awaiting collection and then disbursement -- down from over $31 million in FY 2022 -- which will occur in the year in which the monies are received.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Dec. 4, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.
The Environmental Protection Agency hydrofluorocarbons code is expected to be deployed to the ACE production environment no earlier than Jan. 6, CBP said in a CSMS message Dec. 5, the same date the HFC code deployed in the ACE certification environment. Another CSMS message will be sent out to confirm the production deployment date, CBP said. EPA expects another update to the "EPA supplemental to the CATAIR based on input from the Trade community during CERT testing," CBP said.
The Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee is set to recommend that CBP amend the ACE auto-matching parameters for in-bond shipments to "account for weight discrepancies when converting between kilograms and pounds." The proposed recommendation was laid out in a document released ahead of the COAC meeting on Dec. 13 (see 2312040050).