The Commerce Department issued Federal Register notices on its recently initiated antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on steel nails from India, South Korea, Malaysia, Oman, Taiwan, Turkey, and Vietnam (A-533-859/C-533-860, A-580-874/C-580-875, A-557-816/C-557-817, A-523-808/C-523-809, A-583-854/C-583/855, A-489-820/C-489-821, A-552-818/C-552-819). The agency will determine whether imports of steel from these seven countries are being, or are likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value, and whether imports from these countries are being illegally subsidized.
The Commerce Department issued its quarterly list of (i) completed antidumping and countervailing duty scope rulings and (ii) anticircumvention determinations. The following list covers completed scope and anticircumvention rulings for the period Jan. 1, 2014, through March 31, 2014:
Domestic solar panel manufacturer Solar World Industries America on Dec. 31 began a push to strengthen antidumping and countervailing duties on solar cells from China, filing a petition for new AD/CV duties on modules made from third-country solar cells. Solar World says the AD/CV duty orders on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, issued in December 2012, leave a “loophole” that’s letting in an increasing amount of Chinese solar modules made from Taiwanese solar cells. The petition seeks to remedy that by imposing AD/CV duties on “crystalline solar photovoltaic products,” which specifically include third-country solar cells, from China and Taiwan.
The Commerce Department issued Federal Register notices on its recently initiated antidumping investigations on grain-oriented electrical steel (GOES) from China, the Czech Republic, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Poland, and Russia (A-570-994, A-851-803, A-428-842, A-588-871, A-580-871, A-455-804, A-821-821) and countervailing duty investigations on GOES from China (C-570-995). The agency will determine whether imports of GOES from these countries are being, or are likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value, and whether imports from these countries are being illegally subsidized.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website July 31, 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 addcvd.cbp.gov. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)
The Commerce Department issued Federal Register notices on its recently initiated antidumping investigations on oil country tubular goods from India, South Korea, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, and Vietnam (A-533-857, A-580-870, A-565-802, A-517-804, A-583-850, A-549-832, A-489-816, A-823-815, A-552-817) and countervailing duty investigations on oil country tubular goods from India and Turkey (C-533-858, C-489-817). The agency will determine whether imports of oil country tubular goods from these countries are being, or are likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value, and whether imports from these countries are being illegally subsidized.
The Commerce Department issued Federal Register notices on its recently initiated antidumping investigations on steel threaded rod from India and Thailand (A-533-855, A-549-831) and countervailing duty investigation on steel threaded rod from India (C-533-856). The agency will determine whether imports of steel threaded rod from India and Thailand are being, or are likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value, and whether imports from India are being illegally subsidized. A Commerce Department fact sheet said domestic petitioners alleged AD rates of 17.93 to 119.87 percent and CV rates of above de minimis for Indian exporters, and AD rates of 63.16 to 74.9 percent for Thai exporters (see 13071821).
The final determination in the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on hardwood plywood from China (A-570-986 / C-570-987) are due Sept. 16, said the Commerce Department in a correction to a June 3 correction of its preliminary determination. The June 3 notice errantly said the agency was extending the deadline by 50 days, when it is actually extending it by the maximum of 60 days.
The International Trade Administration issued a final rule establishing time limits for specific types of submissions of factual information in antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings. The rule amends definitions in the ITA’s regulations to define the specific types of factual information the agency accepts in AD/CVD proceedings, and establishes time limits for each specific type of actual information. The final rule also changes current time limits for some kinds of factual information.
The Court of International Trade sustained a challenge to the countervailing duty investigation of kitchen appliance shelving and racks from China (C-570-942), again affirming the constitutionality of the 2012 law allowing application of CV duties to non-market economies. Beyond the constitutional questions raised by plaintiffs, the court also ruled in favor of the International Trade Administration’s affirmative subsidy determinations on government provision of cheap inputs (for less than adequate remuneration, or LTAR) through companies both majority- and minority-owned by the Chinese government, as well as a private trading company.