Four domestic producers and a labor union recently filed petitions with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission requesting new antidumping duties on corrosion-resistant steel products from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Africa, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam, as well as countervailing duties on the same product from Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and Vietnam. Commerce will now decide whether to begin AD/CVD investigations, which could result in the imposition of permanent AD/CVD orders and the assessment of AD and CVD on importers.
The Commerce Department said it's rescinding the administrative review of the countervailing duty order on certain non-refillable steel cylinders (non-refillable cylinders) from China (C-570-127) for the period of review Jan. 1, 2023, though Dec. 31, 2023, because there were no reviewable, suspended entries of subject merchandise for the company subject to the review -- Sanjian Kai Yuan Co., Ltd. -- during the review period. Commerce will instruct CBP to assess countervailing duties on all appropriate entries, at rates equal to the cash deposit of estimated CVD required at the time of entry, or withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption, it said.
The Commerce Department issued antidumping duty orders on mattresses from India (A-533-919), Kosovo (A-803-001), Mexico (A-201-859) and Spain (A-469-826). The orders detail a “gap period” of Aug. 28 - Sept. 3, 2024, of no AD duty liability.
Ferrosilicon: Prelim CVD Rates Take Effect for Brazil, Kazakhstan and Malaysia; Retroactive for Some
The Commerce Department is setting new countervailing duty cash deposit requirements for imports of ferrosilicon from Brazil (C-351-861), Kazakhstan (C-834-813) and Malaysia (C-557-829), after finding countervailable subsidization of producers and exporters in the three countries in the preliminary determinations of its CVD investigations. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will generally take effect for entries on or after Sept. 10, the date that the preliminary determinations were published in the Federal Register, but Commerce is making the suspension of liquidation and CVD cash deposits retroactive to approximately June 12 for some Brazilian and Malaysian companies.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on stainless steel bar from India (A-533-810). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise from companies under review entered Feb. 1, 2022, through Jan. 31, 2023.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is proposing changes to existing safety standards covering water beads, it said in a notice Sept. 9. The commission’s proposed rule would add requirements to Section 4.40 of ASTM F963-23 -- the portion of the safety standard for toys that addresses expanding materials -- to address ingestion, insertion, aspiration and choking hazards. The proposal would add performance requirements to address those risks, as well as acrylamide level limits and testing, and new labeling requirements. Comments are due by Nov. 8.
The EPA in a notice said it's taking final action to remove provisions from its regulations that have been vacated by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit related to the prohibition on the sale of hydrofluorocarbons in disposable cylinders and use of QR codes to track cylinders of HFCs (see 2109230054). "EPA views this removal of regulatory language that has been vacated by the D.C. Circuit as purely ministerial in nature," it said. The decision is effective Sept. 11.
EPA recently issued an enforcement alert related to plans to phase down the production and consumption of hydrofluorocarbons (see 2109230054). The alert aims to provide information on common compliance issues related to the importation of bulk HFCs, according to the agency.
On Sept. 9, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, at the first Supply Chain Summit, said she can't believe how many single points of failure are present in semiconductor supply chains.