The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that in automatic five-year sunset reviews scheduled to begin in October it will consider revoking the antidumping duty orders on strontium chromate from Austria (A-433-813) and France (A-427-830). These orders will be revoked, or investigation terminated, unless Commerce finds that revocation would lead to dumping and the International Trade Commission finds that revocation would result in injury to U.S. industry, Commerce said.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on circular welded carbon quality steel line pipe from China (A-570-935/C-570-936) and refillable stainless steel kegs from China (A-570-093/C-570-094); as well as the antidumping duty orders on welded large diameter line pipe from Japan (A-588-857); diffusion-annealed, nickel-plated flat-rolled steel products from Japan (A-588-869); uncovered innerspring units from China (A-570-928), South Africa (A-791-821) and Vietnam (A-552-803); and refillable stainless-steel kegs from Mexico (A-201-849), Commerce said in a notice released Aug. 30.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the following voluntary recalls Aug. 29:
On Aug. 29, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is soliciting comments for its annual National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers, which can cover goods, services, foreign direct investment and e-commerce access. Comments are due by Oct. 17, and should be submitted at http://www.regulations.gov, docket number USTR-2024-0015.
The U.S. has suspended liquidation for goods exported from Minera Camino Rojo, a mine in Zacatecas, after deciding a petition from Mineros, a mining union, had merit. The petition said that managers undermined worker support for Mineros and promoted the idea of joining a different mining union. This is the 27th time the U.S. has invoked the USMCA rapid response labor mechanism; all cases have been settled without a removal of tariff benefits.
Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Pennsylvania's two senators asked the government to lower the Section 232 quota for South Korean oil country tubular goods, as was done during the coronavirus pandemic.
California man Mohamad Yassin Alcharihi was sentenced on Aug. 29 to three months in prison for illegally importing an "ancient floor mosaic from Syria depicting the Roman demigod Hercules," the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California announced. Alcharihi was found guilty in June 2023 after a five-day trial of one count of entry of falsely classified imports.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Aug. 29, 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.