The Court of International Trade ruled that exporter Eregli Demir ve Celik Fabrikalari (Erdemir) failed to show that the court should revisit its past order allowing four U.S. steel companies to intervene in a case on the International Trade Commission's injury determination related to imports of hot-rolled steel from Turkey. Judge Timothy Reif said the four companies champion claims that share a common question of law or fact with the case's main action, would be adversely affected if the court were to rule in Erdemir's favor and would not unduly delay the adjudication of the original parties' rights.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website May 12, 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 Korean Government's Port Rights Program did not provide Hyundai Steel Company with a countervailable benefit, the company said in its May 8 remand comments at the Court of International Trade (Hyundai Steel Company v. U.S., CIT # 21-00536).
The Commerce Department began administrative reviews for certain firms subject to antidumping and countervailing duty orders with March anniversary dates, it said in a notice released May 8. Producers and exporters subject to any of these administrative reviews on China or Vietnam must submit their separate rate certifications or applications by June 8 in order to avoid being assigned high China-wide or Vietnam-wide rates.
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on wooden cabinets and vanities and components thereof from China (A-570-106/C-570-107). In the final results of these reviews, Commerce will set AD assessment rates for subject merchandise for the companies under review entered April 1, 2021, through March 31, 2022, and CVD assessment rates for entries Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2021.
The Commerce Department announced the opportunity to request administrative reviews by May 31 of producers and exporters subject to 64 antidumping duty orders and 21 countervailing duty orders with May anniversary dates.
An enriched ammonium sulfate isotope was incorrectly ruled as being within the scope of antidumping and countervailing duty orders on ammonium sulfate from China, Cambridge Isotope Laboratories argued in an April 28 complaint at the Court of International Trade. Cambridge sued to contest a final scope ruling, issued March 16, which held that NLM-713-10, which consists of an enriched 15N ammonium sulfate isotope, fell within the scope of the orders on ammonium sulfate from China (Cambridge Isotope Laboratories v. U.S., CIT # 23-00080).
Commerce's use of adverse inferences in selecting a countervailing duty rate in an administrative review on narrow woven ribbons with woven selvedge from China was correct and done using an established Commerce hierarchy, DOJ argued in its April 17 remand comments (Yama Ribbons and Bows v. U.S., CIT # 20-00059).
The Commerce Department will suspend liquidation and require antidumping and countervailing duty cash deposits on various types of pipes and tubes made in Vietnam from hot-rolled steel produced in China, India, South Korea and Taiwan, after preliminarily finding the goods are circumventing AD/CVD orders on a variety of pipe and tube products from the four countries.
Usage rights at the Port of Incheon granted to Hyundai Steel by the Korean government are countervailable, but did not require a less than adequate remuneration (LTAR) analysis as part of a countervailing duty investigation, the Commerce Department said in its April 10 remand results at the Court of International Trade (Hyundai Steel Company v. U.S., CIT # 21-00536).