The Commerce Department announced the opportunity to request administrative reviews by April 1 for producers and exporters subject to 35 antidumping duty orders, 21 countervailing duty orders and two suspended AD/CVD investigations with March anniversary dates.

The Commerce Department issued a notice in the Federal Register on its recently initiated countervailing duty investigations on paper plates from China and Vietnam (C-570-165, C-552-840), and is set to publish a notice in the coming days on its antidumping duty investigations on paper plates from China, Thailand and Vietnam (A-570-164, A-549-849, A-552-839). The CVD investigations on China and Vietnam and the AD investigation on Thailand cover entries for the calendar year 2023. The AD investigations on China and Vietnam cover entries made July 1, 2023, through Dec. 31, 2023.

In Feb. 13 remand comments filed in the Court of International Trade, a domestic petitioner said that CIT erred in its ruling remanding a Moroccan phosphate fertilizer exporter’s CVD determination and that this forced the Commerce Department to incorrectly recalculate the exporter’s costs (The Mosaic Co. v. U.S., CIT # 21-00116).

An importer and plaintiff-intervenor in an ongoing case regarding Thai steel truck wheels said Feb. 13 that the Commerce Department was ignoring the plain language of a scope of the relevant antidumping and countervailing duty orders to find its products were in-scope (Asia Wheel Co. v. U.S., CIT # 23-00143).

DOJ attorney Robert Kiepura replaced Joshua Kurland as principal counsel in a case on the Commerce Department's countervailing duty investigation on wind towers from Canada. The court approved the change in a Feb. 8 order (Quebec v. U.S., Fed. Cir. # 22-1807).

The Commerce Department is issuing antidumping and countervailing duty orders on gas-powered pressure washers from China (A-570-148/C-570-149). The orders, set for publication Feb. 12, 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 published the preliminary results of its antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on forged steel fluid end blocks from Germany (A-428-847/C-428-848). Commerce preliminarily calculated an AD rate of 19.96%, and a CVD rate of 2.54%, for BGH Edelstahl Siegen GmbH, the only company still covered by each review. Any changes to BGH's cash deposit rates would take effect on the publication date of the final results of each review. Once Commerce issues its final results of the AD review, the agency will assess AD at importer-specific rates for entries of subject merchandise from BHG entered Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022, it said. The agency also will determine importer assessments for entries in calendar year 2022 in the final results if its CVD review.

A steelmaker petitioner opposed the results of the Commerce Department’s second remand in a case challenging the results of a 2018 administrative review on South Korean carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate, saying that Commerce didn’t explain why the petitioner hadn’t provided enough evidence to prompt the agency to examine a particular subsidy (Nucor v. U.S., CIT # 21-00182).

The Commerce Department is amending countervailing duty cash deposit rates for exporters subject to CV duties on phosphate fertilizers from Russia (A-821-825), it said in a notice implementing a recent Court of International Trade decision that invalidated rates the agency set in the antidumping duty final determination and order it issued in 2021 (see 2104060023). Any changes are applicable to entries on or after Jan. 29, as follows:

The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Jan. 23 with the following headquarters rulings (ruling revocations and modifications will be detailed elsewhere in a separate article as they are announced in the Customs Bulletin):