CBP finalized its interim rule amending its regulations to implement the customs-related provisions of the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (UKFTA). The final rule makes two technical corrections to the interim provisions. CBP responded to two comments that were submitted to the agency about the rule. The agency issued the interim rule last year (see 12031609), after Presidential Proclamation 8783, published on March 9, 2012, modified the Harmonized Tariff Schedule to implement the UKFTA (see 12030929).
Notable CROSS rulings
Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated May 24 with 106 rulings, bringing the total number of searchable rulings to 177,579. The most recent ruling is dated 05/24/2013.
The State Department and Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security released concurrent proposed rules on changes to the U.S. Munitions List and Commerce Control List for spacecraft and related items, in the latest Export Control Reform step.
Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated May 17. The corresponding downloadable rulings are now available.
Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated May 17 with 161 rulings, bringing the total number of searchable rulings to 177,477. The most recent ruling is dated 05/17/2013.
The Commerce Department found most of R.W. Beckett Corporation’s pipe fittings are covered by antidumping duty order on non-malleable cast iron pipe fittings from China (A-570-875), in a final scope ruling dated May 14. Of the 76 pipe fittings subject to the scope proceeding, only three were found to be excluded because they were made from aluminum and zinc alloys, instead of cast iron or gray iron.
The antidumping duty orders on ball bearings from Japan and the United Kingdom are set to be reinstated, after the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided May 16 to reverse several lower court rulings. The Court of International Trade remands had resulted in the International Trade Commission changing its affirmative injury determinations from its sunset reviews to negative ones. That led to revocation of the ball bearings orders for Japan and the U.K. in July 2011. But the appeals court said that, contrary to the lower court’s findings, the ITC injury findings were supported by record evidence, and should have stood.
Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated May 14. The corresponding downloadable rulings are now available.
Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated May 14 with 187 rulings, bringing the total number of searchable rulings to 177,316. The most recent ruling is dated 05/10/2013.
Recently introduced trade-related legislation in Congress: