In the May 20 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 60, No. 9), CBP published proposals to revoke ruling letters relating to the tariff classification of an electric foot warmer, protein powders, glass shower doors and upholstered bed frames.
CBP is putting interim measures on Dymatec USA for evading an antidumping duty order on diamond sawblades from China by transshipping Chinese sawblades through the U.K. and declaring the U.K. as their country of origin, according to a CBP notice of investigation.
A domestic coalition recently filed a petition with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission requesting antidumping duties and countervailing duties be imposed on N-Cyclohexylbenzothiazole-2-sulfenamide (CBS) from China. Commerce now will decide whether to begin AD/CVD investigations, which could result in the imposition of permanent AD/CVD orders and the assessment of AD and CVD on importers. The investigation was requested by Lanxess, which said it's the sole U.S. manufacturer of CBS.
The Commerce Department recently initiated antidumping duty and countervailing duty investigations on tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane from China (A-570-230/C-570-231). The AD investigation period is Oct. 1, 2025, through March 31, 2026. The CVD investigation period is calendar year 2025.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial and trade related matters:
CBP will require live entry for all imports of golf carts from several importers, and will suspend liquidation and require antidumping duty and countervailing duty cash deposits from the importers after notifying the companies of Enforce and Protect Act investigations and setting interim measures for the evasion of the AD/CVD duty orders on golf cats from China.
The National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America learned from CBP that if an entry has an error that CAPE identified, and the entry is outside the post-summary correction filing window of 300 days or 15 days ahead of scheduled liquidation, those entries cannot receive refunds in this phase of CAPE, the Consolidated Administration and Processing of Entries tool dedicated to International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariff refunds.
CBP on May 7 created Harmonized System Update 2610, containing four Automated Broker Interface records and two Harmonized Tariff Schedule records. It includes updates regarding Section 232 tariffs on USMCA-qualifying Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles (MHDVs).
More than 20 companies and associations, and the steelworkers union, representing a wide swath of aluminum and steel value chains, told the Interagency Section 301 Committee that Section 232 tariffs over the last eight years -- which increased to 50% and 25% from 25% and 10% last year -- have not been enough to restore health to their businesses. So, they argued, higher tariffs, or tariffs on more downstream goods, are needed to level the playing field.
In a repeat of the scramble that followed the Supreme Court's February ruling against International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs, trade attorneys are again assessing what options importers have to preserve their refund rights for tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump, this time under a different tariff authority.