The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register July 12 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 has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from the United Arab Emirates (A-520-807). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered Dec. 1, 2021, through Nov. 30, 2022.

The Commerce Department has published the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on carbon and alloy steel threaded rod from China (C-570-105). The agency calculated a new CVD cash deposit rate for the Chinese producer and exporter and its affiliate listed below, at a rate lower than that calculated in the preliminary results of this review. These final results will be used to set final assessments of CVD on importers for entries during the period January 2022 through December 2022.

The Commerce Department looks set to recognize a Canadian company's name change for the purposes of antidumping duties on softwood lumber products from Canada (A-122-857). The agency preliminarily found TRAPA Forest Products Ltd. is the successor-in-interest to Trans-Pacific Trading Ltd., in the preliminary results of a changed circumstances review released July 12. The agency preliminarily found that Trans-Pacific changed its name to TRAPA but otherwise continues to operate as the same business entity as before. If Commerce confirms its findings in the final results, TRAPA will inherit the AD rate assigned to Trans-Pacific Trading, which was 1.79% (the review average rate) in the final results of an AD administrative review published in August 2023 (see 2307310058).

The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the following voluntary recalls July 11:

On July 11, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:

As USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service creates a $50 million pilot program aimed at bolstering food assistance programming and the supply of non-traditional, shelf-stable commodities, it's seeking public comments on some of the factors that would go into creating the pilot program, including known challenges and barriers around imports, the current production capacity in the U.S. and seasonality and availability of certain commodities for export, and the estimated cost of delivery of commodities to a U.S. port.

USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation announced July 12 that Special Import Quota #13 for upland cotton will be established July 18, allowing importation of 9,174,450 kilograms (42,137 bales) of upland cotton, the same as the previous quota period. The quota will apply to upland cotton purchased not later than Oct. 15, 2024, and entered into the U.S. by Jan. 13, 2025. The quota is equivalent to one week's consumption of cotton by domestic mills at the seasonally adjusted average rate for the March through May 2024 period, the most recent three months for which data is available.

The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service is proposing multiple clarifying amendments to the Paper and Paper-Based Packaging Promotion, Research and Information Order, a program that collects fees from importers to promote paper-based packaging. Among the proposed amendments is revising the definition of importer, which would be changed to "further clarify that importers are persons who import paper and paper-based packaging from outside the United States, that is subsequently released from custody by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (Customs) and introduced into the stream of commerce into the United States," AMS said.

CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters: