The International Trade Commission is beginning a Section 337 investigation on certain injection molding machines, and products containing the same (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1425) after receiving allegations filed by Husky Injection Molding Systems that Ningbo AO Sheng Mold Co. is importing products that infringe its patents, the agency said in a Dec. 12 news release.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Dec. 13 on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department has rescinded the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on carbon and alloy steel wire rod from Ukraine (A-823-816) for the period of review March 1, 2023 through Feb. 29, 2024, because there were no reviewable, suspended entries of subject merchandise during the review period for six companies under review. The six companies are: ArcelorMittal Steel Kryvyi Rih; Public Joint Stock Company Yenakiieve Iron and Steel Works; PrJSC Electrometallurgical Works Dneprospetsstal; PJSC Dneprovsky Iron & Steel Integrated Works; Metinvest Holding LLC; and Variant Agro Build Ltd. The cash deposit rates will not change, and the current cash deposit requirements will remain in effect until further notice. Because the review has been rescinded, the entries to which this administrative review pertained will be assessed AD at rates equal to the cash deposit of estimated AD required at the time of entry, or withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption, Commerce said.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on circular welded non-alloy steel pipe from South Korea (A-580-809). Rates calculated in this review will be used to set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise from these producers and exporters that was entered November 2022 through October 2023.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on aluminum foil from Brazil (A-351-856). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise from the companies under review entered Nov. 1, 2022, through Oct. 31, 2023.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on large diameter welded pipe South Korea (A-580-897). These final results will be used to set final assessments of antidumping duties on importers for subject merchandise from 23 companies under review entered May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2023.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on polyethylene terephthalate resin from Oman (A-523-810). Commerce calculated an AD rate of zero percent for OCTAL SAOC FZC, the only company under review. Commerce won't assess AD for subject merchandise from OCTAL entered May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2023, it said. The new zero percent AD cash deposit rate for OCTAL takes effect Dec. 11, the date that these final results were published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on glycine from Japan (A-588-878). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered June 1, 2022, through May 31, 2023.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Dec. 12 Federal Register on the following AD/CVD injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
Antidumping duty and countervailing duty investigations on overhead door counterbalance torsion springs from China and India will continue, after the International Trade Commission on Dec. 12 voted that there is a “reasonable indication” that imports of the product are injuring U.S. industry, the ITC said in a news release. The Commerce Department will now consider whether to impose AD/CVD cash deposit requirements on torsion springs from the two countries, in preliminary determinations due in Jan. 22 for CVD and on or about April 7 for AD.