The International Trade Administration has initiated a new shipper review for the antidumping duty order on certain preserved mushrooms from China (A-570-851) at the request of Shandong Yinfeng Rare Fungus Co., Ltd. The ITA will determine if this company is eligible for an estimated AD cash deposit rate other than the China-wide entity rate it currently receives.
Brian Feito
Brian Feito is Managing Editor of International Trade Today, Export Compliance Daily and Trade Law Daily. A licensed customs broker who spent time at the Department of Commerce calculating antidumping and countervailing duties, Brian covers a wide range of subjects including customs and trade-facing product regulation, the courts, antidumping and countervailing duties and Mexico and the European Union. Brian is a graduate of the University of Florida and George Mason University. He joined the staff of Warren Communications News in 2012.
The International Trade Administration made a preliminary negative countervailing duty determination that countervailable subsidies are not being provided to producers and exporters of circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from Oman (C-523-802). The ITA preliminarily found de minimis CV rates for the single mandatory respondent and, consequently, "All-Others". As such, ITA will not direct U.S. Customs and Border Protection to suspend liquidation of entries of circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from the Oman, and, for the time being, there will be no CV cash deposit or bond requirements.
The Court of International Trade sustained the International Trade Administration’s scope determination, challenged by Chinese company Global Commodity Group LLC (GCG), that GCG’s imported product falls within the scope of certain antidumping and countervailing duty orders on citric acid and certain citrate salts from China (A-570-937 and C-570-938, respectively).
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission released a report entitled “The Chinese Communist Party and Its Emerging Next-Generation Leaders”. The report is divided into four sections, as follows: (i) The Role of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in China’s Political System; (ii) Leadership Succession in the CCP; (iii) Rising Figures in the “Fifth Generation” of the CCP; and (iv) Rising Figures in the “Sixth Generation” of the CCP. Two subsequent reports, to be released in June and August, will detail China’s emerging leaders in the People’s Liberation Army and in state-controlled industry.
The International Trade Administration is publishing notices in the April 2 Federal Register on the following AD/CV proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, the scope, affected firms, or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Food Safety and Inspection Service said the Food and Agriculture Organization's Joint Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR) Secretariat has published a report on Pesticide Residues in Food, entitled the "Evaluations of 2011 JMPR PART I- RESIDUES." This report may be accessed on the FAO website here.
The International Trade Administration and the International Trade Commission each issued notices initiating five-year Sunset Reviews of the antidumping duty orders on folding gift boxes from China (A-570-866) (second review) and on seamless pipe and pressure pipe from Germany (A-428-820) (third review).
The International Trade Commission voted to institute an investigation of certain digital models, digital data, and treatment plans for use in making incremental dental positioning adjustment appliances, the appliances made therefrom, and methods of making the same. The products at issue in this investigation are incremental dental positioning adjustment appliances, or orthodontic aligners, and the digital models, digital data, and treatment plans used to manufacture those appliances (337-TA-833).
The International Trade Administration issued notice of its rescission of the antidumping duty new shipper review of chlorinated isocyanurates from China (A-570-898) for Puyang Cleanway Chemicals Ltd. As a result, any entries of subject merchandise exported by Puyang Cleanway will be subject to the China-wide rate of 285.63%. The ITA will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection to assess AD duties on entries exported by Puyang Cleanway at the appropriate China-wide rate determined in the ongoing 2010-11 administrative review.
Mexico's Diario Oficial of April 2, 2012, lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy as follows: