The State Department this week updated the list of countries eligible to trade in rough diamonds under the Clean Diamond Trade Act. The list, which was last revised in April 2022 (see 2204050013), now includes Uzbekistan. The update takes effect March 6.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the March 5 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 5 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 has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on softwood lumber products from Canada (A-122-857). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set AD assessment rates for subject merchandise for the companies under review entered Jan. 1, 2023, through Dec. 31, 2023.
The Commerce Department is finalizing its preliminary finding (see 2501070003) that four Canadian companies are cross-owned entities for the purposes of countervailing duties on softwood lumber products from Canada (C-122-858). Commerce said it continues to find that Interfor Sales & Marketing Ltd. (ISM) is cross-owned with Interfor Corporation, EACOM Timber Corporation, Chaleur Forest Products Inc., and Chaleur Forest Products LP, four producers/exporters that also are subject to the CVD order on certain softwood lumber from Canada, in the final results of a changed circumstances review released March 5. Commerce noted in its preliminary finding that the purpose of the CCR doesn't include identifying the applicable cash deposit rates for the companies in question but said that all four already have been assigned the cash deposit rate that non-selected companies have.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on steel propane cylinders from Thailand (A-549-839). Commerce set an AD rate of 3.18% for Sahamitr Pressure Container Plc., the only company under review, the same rate as in the preliminary results of the review. Subject merchandise from Sahamitr entered Aug. 1, 2022, through July 31, 2023, will be liquidated at importer-specific rates, Commerce said. The 3.18% AD duty cash deposit rate for Sahamitr is effective March 4, the date the final results were published in the Federal Register.
On March 4, 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:
Three senators introduced a resolution that would terminate the emergency that the president declared on the northern border -- which, if successful, would terminate the 25% tariff on most Canadian goods and 10% tariff on energy that President Donald Trump imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., speaking March 5 at the American Enterprise Institute about the path to pass a tax cuts extension and spending cuts bill, said that tariff revenue will help to pay down government debt, even if it's not part of the legislative package.
President Donald Trump posted on social media March 5 that his call with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau "ended in a 'somewhat' friendly manner," but that he told him that a reduction in fentanyl smuggling from Canada to the U.S. is not good enough.