The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register May 8 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 amended final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on oil country tubular goods from Ukraine (A-823-815) originally published Feb. 10, 2022. In that review, covering entries from the only company under review, Interpipe, from July 10, 2019, through June 30, 2020, Commerce set an AD rate of 27.8%. Interpipe consists of Interpipe Europe S.A./ Interpipe Ukraine LLC / PJSC Interpipe Niznedneprovsky Tube Rolling Plant (aka Interpipe NTRP) / LLC Interpipe Niko Tube.
The Commerce Department began administrative reviews for certain firms subject to antidumping and countervailing duty orders with March anniversary dates, it said in a notice May 8. Producers and exporters subject to any of these administrative reviews on China or Vietnam must submit their separate rate certifications or applications by June 7 in order to avoid being assigned high China-wide or Vietnam-wide rates.
On May 7, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on May 8:
The Commerce Department on May 8 released its quarterly update to its annual list of foreign-government subsidies on imported articles of cheese subject to an in-quota rate of duty Oct. 1, 2023, through Dec. 31, 2023. The agency again found that only Canada is providing subsidies, in the form of export assistance.
Sens. Catherine Cortez-Masto, D-Nev., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., would like to get a removal of the tariff on titanium sponge attached to the must-pass Federal Aviation Administration authorization bill. There is a 15% tariff on titanium sponge. Timet, a Nevada company, once tried to get quotas applied to titanium sponge imports through a Section 232 action (see 2002280047) and also had a failed trade remedy case; it no longer makes titanium sponge.
Former Sen. Chris Dodd, special presidential adviser for the Americas, said that the administration welcomes the Americas Act (see 2403060033), a bill that proposes setting country-by-country de minimis levels, and instructs the administration to reconsider U.S. tariffs "with the focus on the principle of reciprocity" for most favored nation rates and to open a dialogue with Mexico and Canada on allowing Costa Rica and Uruguay to join USMCA. It also would exclude Chinese and Russian shippers from de minimis eligibility, allow Ecuador and Uruguay to use Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act tariff benefits for certain goods, "with the goal of an eventual full-scale FTA with Uruguay and Ecuador," and asks the administration to make it so goods across Western hemisphere free trade agreements could cumulate among those agreements -- so Costa Rican content could be added to Colombian and Mexican content, for instance.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website May 7, 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.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters: