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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a final rule to adjust civil monetary penalties for inflation, effective January 2, 2025. These adjustments are in line with the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015 and guidance from the Office of Management and Budget. This rule increases penalty amounts for violations occurring after November 2, 2015, and applies to various DHS components like the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Coast Guard. The updated penalty amounts are designed to maintain their deterrent effect and comply with mandatory legislative requirements.

The Secretary of Homeland Security has decided to continue temporary travel restrictions at land ports of entry between the United States and Mexico due to the COVID-19 pandemic. These restrictions limit travel to "essential travel" only, which includes returning U.S. citizens, medical travel, educational travel, work-related travel, and certain other categories. The goal is to reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19 and protect public health. These limitations do not affect air, freight rail, or sea travel but do apply to passenger rail and ferry travel, and they will be in effect from January 22, 2021, to February 21, 2021.

The U.S. Department of Commerce has corrected a significant error in its preliminary investigation regarding the sale of certain epoxy resins from Korea. The investigation found that Kumho P&B Chemicals had a significant ministerial error in the calculation of their dumping margin. These corrected changes lead to a revised dumping margin for Kumho P&B and all other producers or exporters, resulting in adjusted cash deposit rates effective retroactively to November 13, 2024. The revised rates suggest a decrease in cash deposits, and the Commerce Department will update U.S. Customs and Border Protection with the new instructions for refunds.

The Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are seeking public comments on an information collection regarding the documentation requirements for articles entered under special tariff treatment provisions. This is part of an extension of an existing collection under the Paperwork Reduction Act. CBP reviews whether imported goods fall under specific duty-free or reduced-duty categories and importers must have certain declarations ready at the time of entry. Interested parties are encouraged to submit their feedback by March 15, 2021.

The U.S. Department of Commerce and the International Trade Commission have decided to continue the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on glycine from India, China, Japan, and Thailand. They determined that removing these orders could lead to more dumping of glycine, which would harm American industries. As a result, U.S. Customs and Border Protection will keep collecting duties on all glycine imports from these countries. The continuation of these orders is effective from November 29, 2024, and another review will be initiated before the five-year anniversary of this continuation.

The U.S. Department of Commerce issued a correction to a previous notice regarding the antidumping duty order on tapered roller bearings from China. The original statement incorrectly claimed that new cash deposit instructions would be given to U.S. Customs and Border Protection for non-selected companies without a superseding cash deposit rate. The correction clarifies that since these companies have already received an updated cash deposit rate from a later review, no new instructions will be issued, and their current deposit rate remains unchanged. This update is detailed in the Federal Register published on December 31, 2024.

The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is seeking public comments on their proposal to extend an information collection related to Foreign Trade Zones without changes to the existing requirements. This process is part of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, and comments can be submitted until March 17, 2025. The information collection involves recordkeeping and the submission of certification letters by businesses operating in these zones, with a total estimated annual burden of 299 hours. The CBP wants feedback on the necessity, accuracy, and ways to ease the burden of this information collection.

The Department of Commerce is reviewing countervailing duties on heavy walled rectangular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Turkey, focusing on the period between January 1, 2018, and December 31, 2018. In this preliminary assessment, it determined that Ozdemir Boru Profil San. Ve Tic. Ltd. Sti., the only producer/exporter involved, received negligible subsidies. Commerce is expected to release final results within 120 days after these preliminary findings are published, which may influence future duties on these products. The results and any related actions will be published in the Federal Register with instructions for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on handling duties, if applicable.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is seeking public comments on a new information collection method as part of the Stakeholder Scheduling Application within the CBP One™ app. This app aims to streamline and automate the current manual processes for scheduling inspections with CBP officers. The information collection efforts are part of several legal frameworks, including the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 and the Aviation and Transportation Security Act of 2001. Comments should be submitted by April 19, 2021, and directed to the provided email address.

The U.S. Department of Commerce has decided to cancel the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain steel plates from France for the period from May 1, 2023, to April 30, 2024. This decision came after it was confirmed that there were no entries of the steel plates from France during this period, which means there was nothing to review. Without any such entries, there aren’t any subjects for the review to assess and apply duties. Commerce will now direct U.S. Customs and Border Protection to assess duties on any relevant entries at the rates initially estimated when they were entered into the U.S. market.