The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of the antidumping duty administrative review on circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from Oman (A-523-812). The final results of this review will be used to set importer assessments for the Omani company Al Jazeera for the period Dec. 1, 2021, through Nov. 30, 2022.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on quartz surface products from China (A-570-084/C-570-085). Commerce said it preliminarily determined that certain Malaysian exporters of certain quartz surface products continue to be ineligible to participate in the scope certification process established for the AD and CVD orders on quartz surface products from China for all imports of quartz surface products from Malaysia. Specifically, it said it finds "that these Malaysian exporters did not demonstrate that the quartz slab used to produce their exports" to the U.S. was sourced from "a country other than China."
The Commerce Department is beginning new antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on tungsten shot from China, it said in a fact sheet Aug. 7. The underlying petition was filed in July (see 2407160029). The International Trade Commission is scheduled to make its preliminary injury determinations by Aug. 26. These AD/CVD investigations will continue only if the ITC finds injury. International Trade Today will provide more details upon publication of the initiation notices in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the countervailing duty administrative review on forged steel fluid end blocks from Germany (C-428-848). These final results will be used to set final assessments of CVD on importers of subject merchandise entered Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department made preliminary affirmative antidumping duty determinations that imports of glass wine bottles from Chile (A-337-808), China (A-570-162) and Mexico (A-588-862) are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The agency will impose AD cash deposit requirements retroactively on some entries of subject merchandise from China beginning May 11, 2024. For the other Chinese exporters, as well as all exporters in Chile and Mexico, AD suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements take effect Aug. 9, 2024.
EPA has published in the Federal Register its previously announced proposed rule on restricting the commercial use of solvent 1-bromopropane (1-BP) (see 2408010002), setting Sept. 23 as the deadline for general comments, and Sept. 9 for comments on associated information collection requirements.
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on Aug. 8:
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., formally unveiled a widely anticipated bipartisan bill Aug. 8 that would restrict foreign goods from eligibility for de minimis shipments.
Wisconsin companies Precision Cable Assemblies and Global Engineered Products, along with their chief executives Ryan Schmus and Richard Horky, paid more than $10 million to settle charges they avoided millions of dollars in customs duties on Chinese goods, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced.
Three wildlife advocacy groups took to the Court of International Trade on Aug. 8 to contest the collective failure of the Commerce, Treasury and Homeland Security departments and the National Marine Fisheries Service to ban fish or fish products exported from fisheries that don't meet U.S. bycatch standards under the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) (Natural Resources Defense Council v. Gina Raimondo, CIT # 24-00148).