The Commerce Department made multiple errors, including miscalculating benchmark data and the use of adverse inferences, in a countervailing duty review on multilayered wood flooring from China, Baroque Timber Industries said in its Sept. 15 reply at the Court of International Trade. Those alleged errors resulted in inaccurate CVD rates for Fine Furniture and other Chinese wood flooring exporters, Baroque said in a motion for judgment in March (see 2303100041) (Baroque Timber Industries (Zhongshan) Co. v. U.S., CIT # 22-00210).

The Commerce Department erred by not removing countervailing duty costs from the prices used to establish export price and constructed export price in the 2021 review of the antidumping duty order on softwood lumber products from Canada, petitioner Committee Overseeing Action for Lumber International Trade Investigations or Negotiations argued (Committee Overseeing Action for Lumber International Trade Investigations or Negotiations v. U.S., CIT # 23-00189).

The Commerce Department began administrative reviews for certain firms subject to antidumping and countervailing duty orders with July anniversary dates, it said in a notice released Sept. 8. Producers and exporters subject to any of these administrative reviews on China or Vietnam must submit their separate rate certifications or applications on or about Oct. 11 to avoid being assigned high China-wide or Vietnam-wide rates.

The Commerce Department issued the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on cut-to-length carbon-quality steel plate from South Korea (C-580-837). The agency calculated new CV duty cash deposit rates of 1.08% for two South Korean companies, a slight change from the preliminary results that had the rate for each company at 1.1%. These final results will be used to set final assessments of CVD on importers for entries in calendar year 2021.

The Commerce Department erred when it found that wood boards used to produce downstream cabinet products were wood “moulding and millwork” products, importer Hardware Resources said in an Aug. 31 complaint to the Court of International Trade. The suit contests Commerce's Aug. 2 final scope ruling which found that imported edge-glued boards were within the scope of antidumping and countervailing duty orders on wood mouldings and millwork products from China (see 2308080002) (Hardware Resources v. U.S., CIT # 23-00150).

The Commerce Department in an antidumping proceeding correctly used a bona fide sale analysis of a single sale of wooden cabinets by importer Dalian Hualing Wood (Hualing) from a linked investigation, DOJ argued in an Aug. 24 response at the Court of International Trade. The brief came in reply to a June motion for judgment, in which Hualing argued that Commerce illegally made separate determinations in linked antidumping and countervailing duty reviews (see 2306260033) (Dalian Hualing Wood Co. v. U.S., CIT # 22-00334).

The Commerce Department issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping duty investigations on mattresses from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Burma, India, Italy, Kosovo, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, and Taiwan (A-893-002, A-487-001, A-546-001, A-533-919, A-475-845, A-803-001, A-201-859, A-565-804, A-455-807, A-856-002, A-469-826, A-583-873), and its countervailing duty investigation on mattresses from Indonesia (C-560-839). The CVD investigation covers entries for the calendar year 2022. The AD investigations cover entries July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023.

The Commerce Department will soon impose antidumping duty cash deposit requirements on imports of tin mill products from Canada, China and Germany, but will not at this time suspend liquidation or set duties on tin mill products from another five countries under investigation. The agency found no dumping of tin mill products from South Korea, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Turkey and the U.K. in preliminary determinations announced Aug. 17, it said in a fact sheet. If it continues to find no dumping in its final determinations, the agency will not issue AD orders for those countries.

Brazil and Canada recently announced antidumping and countervailing duty actions and decisions on certain products from mainland China, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council reported Aug. 11.

The Commerce Department issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on pea protein from China (A-570-154/C-570-155). The CVD investigation covers entries Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2022. The AD investigation covers entries Jan. 1 - June 30, 2023.