Responding to a trade court remand order (see 2404230031), the Commerce Department said it has reconsidered its decision and chosen to apply the subsidies received by unaffiliated suppliers of lumber to a few expedited Canadian lumber review respondents -- though this ultimately had no effect on those respondents’ countervailing duty rates (Committee Overseeing Action for Lumber International Trade Investigations or Negotiations v. U.S., CIT # 19-00122).
The Environmental Protection Agency is launching a proposed rulemaking that will enable the agency to create a framework assessing the renewal or eligibility of applications that seek application-specific allowances amid EPA's efforts to phase down hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), it said in a Federal Register notice set for publication Sept. 16.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Sept. 12, 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.
The Commerce Department is setting new countervailing duty cash deposit requirements for imports of epoxy resin from China (C-570-167), India (C-533-927) and Taiwan (C-583-877), after finding countervailable subsidization of producers and exporters in the four countries in the preliminary determinations of its CV duty investigations. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect Sept. 13, 2024, for entries of subject merchandise from India, South Korea and Taiwan, and will take retroactive effect for entries from China as of June 15, 2024.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Sept. 11, 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.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of a countervailing duty administrative review of metal lockers from China (C-570-134). This review covers subject merchandise from the exporters under review entered during calendar year 2022.
Four domestic producers and a labor union recently filed petitions with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission requesting new antidumping duties on corrosion-resistant steel products from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Africa, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam, as well as countervailing duties on the same product from Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and Vietnam. Commerce will now decide whether to begin AD/CVD investigations, which could result in the imposition of permanent AD/CVD orders and the assessment of AD and CVD on importers.
The Commerce Department issued antidumping duty orders on mattresses from India (A-533-919), Kosovo (A-803-001), Mexico (A-201-859) and Spain (A-469-826). The orders detail a “gap period” of Aug. 28 - Sept. 3, 2024, of no AD duty liability.
In a Sept. 4 motion for judgment, an Italian pasta exporter whose countervailing duty rate jumped from under 2% to 88.67% due to the application of adverse facts available again argued that, based on the Eighth Amendment, AFA must still be assessed accurately and not be calculated to destroy a company entirely (see 2402290018) (Pastificio Gentile S.r.l. v. U.S., CIT # 24-00037).
The Commerce Department made preliminary affirmative antidumping duty determinations that imports of paper plates from China (A-570-164), Thailand (A-549-849) and Vietnam (A-552-839), are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The agency will generally impose AD cash deposit requirements on entries of subject merchandise beginning on Sept. 5, 2024, though cash deposit requirements take effect retroactively for some Chinese, Thai and Vietnamese companies, beginning on June 7, 2024.