A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website July 22, 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 ADD CVD Search page.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP recently created Harmonized System Updates (HSU) 2219 and 2220, it said in a CSMS message. The updates include changes to duty rates on infant formula imports (see 2207220069) (in HSU 2220, created on July 22, and containing 64 Automated Broker Interface (ABI) records and 20 Harmonized Tariff Schedule records); and the treatment of solar panels from Canada (see 2207070041) (in HSU 2219, created on July 21, and containing 5 ABI records and 1 HTS record), it said.
CBP provided some guidance for how importers of infant formula can make use of the temporary suspension of tariffs on baby formula (see 2207220069). CBP "will provide duty-free treatment of the eligible infant formula products entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption from July 22, 2022 through December 31, 2022," it said. "Duty-free treatment is limited to certain infant formula products classified under the designated United States Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) numbers. The eligible infant formula products will not be subject to any additional safeguard duties that may be imposed under subchapter IV of Chapter 99 of the HTS, or any other import quotas, tariff-rate quotas, additional duties, or any other duties, fees, exactions, or charges that otherwise would apply to such articles." Filers must "classify the infant formula products with the correct Chapter 19 or Chapter 21 HTS number, along with the corresponding Chapter 99 HTS number," it said.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website July 21, 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 ADD CVD Search page.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website July 20, 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 ADD CVD Search page.
A Bank of America Securities research note said analysts believe the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act has been a "greater challenge than expected" for solar panel manufacturers, and at least three different suppliers' shipments have been detained in the first month since the law began to be enforced.
CBP's forced labor efforts are "really showing results," John Leonard, deputy executive assistant commissioner of CBP's Office of Trade, said July 19 at the Trade Facilitation and Cargo Security Summit. "Many of our [withhold release orders], especially the ones in Malaysia, are in the process of being modified, which means workers are being treated better," he said. "They're actually getting better pay, better living conditions." CBP will modify a WRO for a specific entity if it can show to CBP that all indicators of forced labor have been remediated.