The International Trade Commission published notices in the March 28 Federal Register on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):

The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register March 28 on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CVD rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):

The Commerce Department will soon suspend liquidation and impose countervailing duty cash deposit requirements on imports of slag pots from China, it said in a fact sheet issued March 28. The CVD rates will be set at 226.16% for Chinese exporters, the agency said as it announced its preliminary determinations in its ongoing CVD investigations. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after the date of publication of the preliminary determinations in the Federal Register, which should occur in the coming days. Commerce is conducting concurrent antidumping duty investigations on the same product from China, with a preliminary determination expected by June 10.

The Commerce Department is setting new countervailing duty cash deposit requirements for imports of paper file folders from Cambodia (C-555-006), after finding countervailable subsidization of Cambodian producers in the preliminary determination of its CVD investigation. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after March 28, the date that the preliminary determination was published in the Federal Register.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the following voluntary recalls March 27:

On March 27, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts (after not having posted new ones for a number of days) on the detention without physical examination of:

Lawmakers are drafting legislation to codify the authority that the Office of Information and Communication Technology and Services uses to place import restrictions on Chinese connected vehicles and other technologies, said Jeffrey Kessler, undersecretary of the Bureau of Industry and Security.

Rep. Marlin Stutzman, R-Ind., introduced a bill this week that would impose a tariff on imported Australian Waygu beef. The U.S. and Australia have an FTA, but Australia does not allow any beef imports from the U.S., ostensibly over concerns over mad cow disease. A meat export trade group says typical U.S. beef would not be price-competitive in Australia, but argued that the trade barrier should be lowered nonetheless.

Five Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee introduced a bill this week that would repeal Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930, which allows a president to impose 50% tariffs on trading partners if they're deemed to be discriminating against U.S. products. It doesn't require the president to disclose the evidence of discrimination.

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., the leader on a push to revoke the emergency underlying 25% tariffs on many Canadian goods and 10% tariffs on Canadian energy, said his resolution will get a vote on April 1.