A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Jan. 8, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.
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Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, who warned the White House that reducing the scope of the Section 301 tariff list or reducing tariff levels "could undermine efforts to shore up our domestic manufacturing and supply chains," said he doesn't know the details of what products might leave the target list if the White House hikes tariffs on electric vehicles or their batteries.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Jan. 8 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 reversed course in its final determination on antidumping duties for South Korean tin mill products, setting new AD cash deposit requirements on TCC Steel and all other South Korean exporters besides KG Dongbu Steel, according to a fact sheet released Jan. 5. Commerce had found no South Korean steelmaker was guilty of dumping tin mill products in its preliminary determination; on Jan. 5, it found that Dongbu is not dumping, but that the other steelmakers' tin mill should be subject to a 2.69% duty.
On Jan. 5, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The FDA announced its approval of the state of Florida for the agency’s drug importation program, which allows imports of prescription drugs from Canada if they reduce costs for U.S. consumers without imposing additional risks to the public (see 2009290018), the FDA said in a news release Jan. 5. Under the program, Florida still must submit more drug-specific information for FDA approval, test the drugs it seeks to import and relabel the drugs to be consistent with FDA requirements. The program was approved for two years from the date of the first importation, the FDA said.
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on Jan. 8:
Australia's tariff rate quota limits for 2024 for beef, dairy products, avocados, peanuts and tobacco were announced by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative in a Federal Register notice released Jan. 8.
The chairman and ranking member of the House Select Committee on China asked the commerce secretary and the U.S. trade representative to use "all existing trade authorities" to hike tariffs on Chinese legacy chips, including those already incorporated into consumer goods, they said in an emailed news release.