The Commerce Department is initiating a changed circumstances review of the countervailing duty order on certain corrosion-resistant steel products (CORE) from South Korea (C-580-879) to determine whether South Korean company Dongkuk Coated Metal Co., Ltd. (Dongkuk CM) is the successor-in-interest to Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., Ltd. (Old Dongkuk Steel).
The Commerce Department is amending the final results of an antidumping duty administrative review on heavy walled rectangular welded steel pipes and tubes from Mexico (A-201-847) to correct an error in its calculation for the AD rate for entries of subject merchandise from the one mandatory respondent, Productos Laminados de Monterrey S.A. de C.V. (Prolamsa), during the period Sept. 1, 2021, through Aug. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department finalized a new exemption from antidumping and countervailing duties for stainless steel flanges made to SAE J518 or ISO 6162 specification, the agency said in the final results of a changed circumstances review of the AD/CVD orders on stainless steel flanges from China (A-570-064/C-570-065) and India (A-533-877/C-533-878).
The Commerce Department has issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (R-134a) from China (A-570-044). The agency continued to find the 23 companies under review didn't demonstrate independence from Chinese government control, assigning them to the China-wide entity, which has an AD rate of 167.02%. Commerce will order liquidation for subject merchandise entered April 1, 2022, through March 31, 2023, at the China-wide rate of 167.02%.
On May 15, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts (after not having posted new ones for a number of days) on the detention without physical examination of:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on May 16:
A bipartisan bill has been introduced that would prohibit ships from either bringing passengers to the U.S. or bringing in goods if they docked at a port or marine terminal that was expropriated from a U.S. company in the Western Hemisphere.
A bill that would establish a critical supply chain resiliency and crisis response program in the Commerce Department passed in the House of Representatives May 15 on a 390-19 vote.
A bipartisan effort has begun to undo Treasury rulemaking that allows automakers a longer period to move away from Chinese graphite and other critical minerals, and allows them to continue to use rollup methodology to calculate the percentage of qualifying critical minerals (see 2405030060).
A bipartisan bill to require the Consumer Product Safety Commission to promulgate a mandatory consumer product safety standard for retractable awnings passed the House May 14 by voice vote.