The Commerce Department is suspending liquidation and setting new antidumping duty cash deposit requirements on all imports of monosodium glutamate from Malaysia made from Chinese-origin glutamic acid, after preliminarily finding that the imports are circumventing AD on MSG from China (A-570-992), the agency said.
A dairy exporters trade group and a former USMCA negotiator say the state-to-state dispute panels under the NAFTA replacement are only a partial success.
The Commerce Department is amending the final results of the countervailing duty administrative review on certain corrosion-resistant steel products (CORE) from South Korea (C-580-879), originally published Jan. 19, 2022, to align the results with the final decision, published Jan. 17, 2025, in a court case that challenged a rate in those results.
The Commerce Department is increasing countervailing duty cash deposit rates for some exporters of low speed personal transportation vehicles from China (C-570-177), after amending its original preliminary CVD determination to fix calculation errors.
The Commerce Department is amending the June 25, 2021, final determination of an antidumping duty investigation on utility scale wind towers from Spain (A-469-823) based on the final decision, issued Jan. 28, 2025, in a court case challenging those final results. The AD order, published Aug. 16, 2021, also is being amended to reflect the new final results. Commerce calculated a revised AD rate for the collapsed entity made up of the following exporters: Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE); Windar Renovables S.A. (Windar); and five of Windar’s affiliates (i.e., Tadarsa Eolica SL; Windar Offshore SL; Windar Wind Services SL; Aemsa Santana SA; and Apoyos Metalicos SA) -- collectively known as SGRE/Windar. That change also affects the rate for all other exporters in the subject review.
The Commerce Department is amending the April 14, 2022, final determination in an antidumping duty investigation on raw honey from Brazil (A-351-857) based on the final decision, issued Jan. 24, 2025, in a court case challenging those final results. The AD order, published June 10, 2022, also is being amended to reflect the new final results. Commerce calculated a revised AD rate for Apiário Diamante Comercial Exportadora Ltda/Apiário Diamante Produção e Comercial de Mel Ltda (known as Supermel) -- a reduction from the original rate of 83.72%. That change also affects the rate for all other exporters in the subject review.
Law firm ArentFox noted that the regulations promulgated by CBP on USMCA regarding textiles will take effect March 18, and cover the certificate of eligibility, rather than certificate of origin for tariff preference level imports, so CBP can track how much of the TPL has been used. The regulations also authorize CBP to visit exporters or textile producers in Mexico and Canada to see if they meet rules of origin, or "to determine the customs offenses that are occurring or have occurred at the facility." These site visits can be unannounced, but government authorities in the home country will be notified.
More than a fifth of House Democrats, led by Rep. Jim Costa, D-Calif., asked President Donald Trump to reconsider broad tariffs on Canada and Mexico because of the inflationary impact they would have on housing construction.
President Donald Trump's recent expansion of Section 232 steel and aluminum tariffs likely would survive a judicial challenge, particularly in light of the string of cases challenging the Section 232 duties imposed during his first term, trade lawyers told us. Thomas Beline, partner at Cassidy Levy, said Trump's move to eliminate the country-specific arrangements and product exclusions is "likely defensible," since the statute lets the president take any action he deems necessary where an agreement is "not being carried out or is ineffective."
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., one of the leading voices in the House to end de minimis for e-commerce, said she wants President Donald Trump to remove all e-commerce from de minimis, so that it goes back to its original purpose of covering tourists' purchases. Given international direct-to-consumer shipping, "It’s become a vast gap in our customs regime," she said, causing a "flood of impossibly low-priced products that put American manufacturers out of business," and making it "almost impossible to enforce the ban on goods made with forced labor."