The Commerce Department has released the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on cold-rolled steel flat products from South Korea (C-580-882). These final results will be used to set final assessments of CV duties on importers for subject merchandise entered Jan. 1, 2020, through Dec. 31, 2020.
The Commerce Department published the final results of the antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on steel racks from China (A-570-088/C-570-089). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD for subject merchandise for the companies under review entered Sept. 1, 2020, through Aug. 30, 2021, and CVD for entries Jan. 1, 2020, through Dec. 31, 2020.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website April 6, 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 erred when it decided that debt-to-equity swaps as part of a corporate workout program for Korean steel manufacturer Dongbu were countervailable subsidies, the company said in an April 6 complaint at the Court of International Trade (KG Dongbu Steel Co. v. U.S., CIT # 23-00055).
The Commerce Department announced April 4 the opportunity to request administrative reviews by May 1 for producers and exporters subject to 36 antidumping duty orders and 14 countervailing duty orders with April anniversary dates.
A recent appellate court ruling requiring the Commerce Department to pick more than one mandatory respondent in certain antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings doesn’t apply to all cases, the agency said. Commerce said "case-specific circumstances" free it of that obligation.
Liquidation of imported picture frame moldings should have been suspended pending antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews, importer Larson-Juhl told the Court of International Trade in a March 30 complaint. The complaint contests CBP's denial of Larson-Juhl's protests concerning the liquidation and assessment of duties on nine entries subject to AD and CVD orders on wood mouldings and millwork products from China (Larson-Juhl US v. United States., CIT # 23-00032).
The Commerce Department has released a final determination that stainless steel sheet and strip of Chinese origin that has undergone further processing in Vietnam is merchandise covered by the scope of the antidumping and countervailing orders on stainless steel sheet and strip from China (A-570-042/C-570-043), and that stainless steel sheet and strip completed in Vietnam using certain non-subject stainless steel flat-rolled inputs of Chinese origin is circumventing the orders.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website March 23, 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 Court of International Trade on March 16 upheld the Commerce Department's final determination in the countervailing duty investigation into aluminum sheet from Turkey. Judge M. Miller Baker said that Commerce "easily" defeated respondent Teknik Aluminyum Sanayi's challenge to Commerce's use of a questionnaire in lieu of on-site verification since Teknik cited no authority requiring the agency to carry out a certain verification procedure during a global pandemic. Baker also upheld Commerce's use of partial adverse facts available over Teknik's failure to submit screenshots of audited financial statements and ledgers, citing Teknik's failure to submit certain information in the form and manner requested.