Statutes and regulations administered by the Federal Maritime Commission will remain in effect if International Longshoremen’s Association members go on strike next week at container terminals at East and Gulf coast ports, the FMC said in an industry advisory Sept. 23.
The Federal Maritime Commission denied a request from a group of ocean carriers to delay its recently issued final rule on demurrage and detention billing requirements, saying the delay would impede orders from Congress and would lead to more confusion within the shipping industry.
The World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Body on Sept. 23 agreed to establish a dispute panel in China's challenge of certain U.S. tax credits for electric vehicles under the Inflation Reduction Act. Ahead of the Sept. 23 meeting of the DSB, China submitted a second request for a dispute settlement panel to assess whether the tax credits violate WTO rules.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Sept. 23 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):
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Sept. 23 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 is recognizing a Canadian company's name change for the purposes of antidumping duties on softwood lumber products from Canada (A-122-857), it said in a notice of the final results of a changed circumstances review. The agency confirmed its preliminary finding that TRAPA Forest Products Ltd. is the successor-in-interest to Trans-Pacific Trading Ltd., saying that Trans-Pacific changed its name to TRAPA but otherwise continues to operate as the same business entity as before. Commerce said that effective Sept. 23, TRAPA now inherits the AD rate assigned to Trans-Pacific Trading, i.e., 7.8%, the review average rate set in the final results of the AD administrative review published Aug. 19 (see 2408160017). (For a summary of the preliminary results of this changed circumstances review, see 2407120030).
The Commerce Department made preliminary affirmative antidumping duty determinations that imports of melamine from Germany (A-428-852), India (A-533-924), Japan (A-588-882), the Netherlands (A-421-817) and Trinidad and Tobago (A-274-810) are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The agency will generally impose AD cash deposit requirements on entries of subject merchandise beginning on Sept. 24, 2024, though cash deposit requirements take effect retroactively for all some Indian, Japanese and Trinidadian companies, beginning on June 26, 2024.
On Sept. 20, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on Sept. 23:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Sept. 20, 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.