CBP recently issued a final affirmative evasion finding in its Enforce and Protect Act investigation on New Orleans-based Musa Stone Import's and King’s Marble & Granite's alleged evasion of antidumping and countervailing duties stemming from transshipping Chinese-origin quartz surface products through Thailand and the Philippines.

The Commerce Department is issuing antidumping and countervailing duty orders on pea protein from China (A-570-154/C-570-155). The orders, published Aug. 26, set permanent antidumping and countervailing duties, which will remain in place unless revoked by Commerce in a sunset or changed circumstances review. Commerce will now begin conducting annual administrative reviews, if requested, to determine final assessments of AD/CVD on importers and make changes to cash deposit rates.

The Commerce Department has released its final determination in the countervailing duty investigation on glass wine bottles from China (C-570-163). Cash deposit rates set in this final determination take effect Aug. 26.

The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on hardwood plywood products from China (A-570-051/C-570-052). In the final results of these reviews, Commerce will set AD and CVD assessment rates for subject merchandise for the companies under review entered Sept. 26, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2022.

The Commerce Department issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on tungsten shot from China (A-570-178/C-570-179). The CVD investigation covers entries Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2023. The AD investigation covers entries Jan. 1, 2024 - June 30, 2024.

Countervailing duty petitioners Bio-Lab, Innovative Water Care and Occidental Chemical Corp. challenged the Commerce Department's refusal to use adverse facts available against exporters Heze Huayi Chemical Co. and Juancheng Kangtai Chemical Co. in an administrative review of the CVD order on chlorinated isocyanurates from China (Bio-Lab v. United States, CIT # 24-00118).

An importer of Vietnamese countertops said in a response to an Enforce and Protect Act investigation that it didn’t deny some of its countertops should have been covered by AD orders on Chinese quartz slabs -- it just hadn’t known they had originated from China (Superior Commercial Solutions v. United States, CIT # 24-00052).

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 on Aug. 5 published its quarterly list of (i) completed antidumping and countervailing duty scope rulings and (ii) anti-circumvention determinations. The following list covers completed scope rulings for the period Jan. 1, 2024, through March 31, 2024:

The Commerce Department issued its final determinations in its antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on brass rod from Israel (A-508-814/C-508-815). Suspension of liquidation is currently not in effect for entries on or after June 11, 2024, and Commerce will only require cash deposits of estimated AD/CVD on future entries if it issues AD/CVD orders.