As U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) endeavors to improve enforcement of U.S. trade laws, the option of imposing a single entry bond (“SEB”) requirement on certain types of shipments (or with respect to certain importers) has become much more important. CBP’s enforcement initiatives are, by necessity, largely retrospective in nature. When the agency suspects […]
Following its investigation of the effects of steel imports on national security, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (Commerce) recommended that the Administration take action to limit those imports such that, when combined with “good management,” it would “enable U.S. steel mills to operate at 80 percent or more of their […]
The Enforce and Protect Act of 2015, Section 421 (EAPA) established an administrative process through which trade-affected domestic industries could petition U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to take action against unfairly traded imports that were entered into the United States so as to fraudulently evade antidumping and/or countervailing duties. Under the legislation, EAPA proceedings […]
On August 17th, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) made public several documents related to investigations undertaken under the Enforce and Protect Act of 2015, Section 421 (EAPA). The public release of documents was accompanied by a press release heralding the agency’s exercise of authority to launch multiple investigations of illegal Chinese imports. The substance […]
After U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) released a limited, heavily edited “public version” of its Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Enforcement Actions and Compliance Initiatives report to Congress for fiscal year 2015 in January of this year, the Department of Homeland Security made public the entire report without redaction. The Department of Homeland Security’s website […]