The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Sept. 9 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 looks set to recognize a Turkish company’s name change for the purposes of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on circular welded carbon steel standard pipe and tube products (standard pipe), welded line pipe (WLP), certain oil tubular goods (OCTG), and large diameter welded pipe (LDWP) from Turkey (A-489-501/C-489-502, A-489-822/C-489-823, A-489-816/C-489-817, A-489-833/C-489-834). In the preliminary results of the AD and CVD changed circumstances reviews, the agency preliminarily found Borusan Birleşik Boru Fabrikalari Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. (Borusan Boru) is the successor-in-interest to Borusan Mannesmann Boru Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. (BMB).
The Commerce Department has published the final results of a countervailing duty administrative review on granular polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) resin from India (C-533-900). The review covered subject merchandise from the exporters under review entered during the period July 6, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2022.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is seeking comments on whether ASTM's revised voluntary standard for soft infant and toddler carriers improves the safety of soft infant and toddler carriers, according to a notice in the Federal Register released Sept. 9. CPSC is accepting comments through Sept. 24.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission said there will be no import delays should there be eFiling errors in the commission's PGA message set pilot, according to a Federal Register notice.
On Sept. 6, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service is seeking comments on the updates it has made on documentation guidelines related to animal-raising or environmental-related claims on meat or poultry product raising. FSIS says the updated guideline "includes changes made in response to updated scientific information, FSIS sampling data, askFSIS questions, public comments, petitions, and other meetings with Agency stakeholders." The agency is accepting comments through Nov. 12.
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai told podcast hosts at Bloomberg News that the U.S. and other countries that lost manufacturing jobs as China ramped up its exports from 2000 to 2019 are saying: "We will not tolerate, we cannot tolerate a China Shock 2.0."
House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., led a bipartisan trip to Argentina, Paraguay and Chile, where they heard from Argentina and Paraguay how crucial the Generalized System of Preferences benefits program is to the trading relationship.
Former President Donald Trump, at a campaign rally over the weekend in Wisconsin, said he would impose a 100% tariff on goods from countries that "leave the dollar."