The Commerce Department issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping duty investigations on glass wine bottles from Chile, China and Mexico (A-337-808, A-570-162, A-201-862), and its countervailing duty investigation on glass wine bottles from China (C-570-163). The CVD investigation covers entries for the calendar year 2022. The AD investigations on Chile and Mexico cover entries Oct. 1, 2022, through Sept. 30, 2023, and the AD investigation on China covers entries April 1, 2023, through Sept. 30, 2023.
The Commerce Department lowered all Moroccan phosphate fertilizer exporters’ countervailing duty rates from 19.97% to 7.41% in its final redetermination on remand of the final determination in a CVD investigation. However, it refused to reverse a finding that a Moroccan government program granting reductions in tax fines and penalties was de facto specific to the investigation’s sole respondent (The Mosaic Co. v. U.S., CIT Consol. # 21-00116).
The Commerce Department is set to lower the countervailing duty for two Chinese solar cell exporters, removing adverse facts available rates for certain programs and changing several cost calculation methods, it said in remand results filed with the Court of International Trade (Risen Energy Co. v. U.S., CIT # 22-00231).
The Commerce Department issued its final determination in its countervailing duty investigation on tin mill products from China (C-570-151). Suspension of liquidation is currently not in effect for entries on or after Oct. 24, 2023, and Commerce will require cash deposits of estimated CV duties on future entries only if it issues a CV duty order.
The Commerce Department issued its final affirmative determinations in the antidumping duty investigations on tin mill products from Canada (A-122-869), Germany (A-428-851) China (A-570-150) and South Korea (A-580-915). Changes to cash deposit requirements set in these final determinations take effect Jan. 10, the date they are scheduled for publication in the Federal Register.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Jan. 5, 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 made preliminary affirmative antidumping duty determinations that imports of paper shopping bags from Cambodia (A-555-002), China (A-570-152), Colombia (A-301-805), India (A-533-917), Malaysia (A-557-825), Portugal (A-471-808), Taiwan (A-583-872), Turkey (A-489-849) and Vietnam (A-552-836), 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 Jan. 3, 2024, though cash deposit requirements take effect retroactively for all Vietnamese companies, and some Cambodian, Taiwanese and Chinese companies, beginning on Oct. 5, 2023.
The Commerce Department will begin administrative reviews for certain firms subject to antidumping and countervailing duty orders with November anniversary dates, it said in a notice published Dec. 29. Producers and exporters subject to administrative reviews on products from China or Vietnam must submit their separate rate certifications or applications on or about Jan. 29 to avoid being assigned high China-wide or Vietnam-wide rates.
The Commerce Department announced the opportunity to request administrative reviews by Jan. 31 for producers and exporters subject to 23 antidumping duty orders and 15 countervailing duty orders with anniversary dates in January.
The Commerce Department won't yet impose countervailing duty cash deposit requirements on imports of mattresses from Indonesia, it said in a fact sheet announcing its preliminary determination in the CVD investigation. The agency calculated de minimis CV duty rates for all Indonesian exporters. Suspension of liquidation and antidumping duty cash deposit requirements are already in effect for mattresses from Indonesia under an AD order issued in 2021. Commerce may still suspend liquidation for CVD purposes and require AD cash deposits when it issues its final determination, due May 8.