Crushed glass products imported by SMA Surfaces do not qualify for an exemption for crushed glass surface products from antidumping and countervailing duties on quartz surface products from China (A-570-084/C-570-085), the Commerce Department said in a scope ruling issued July 15. Though SMA argued to the contrary, Commerce affirmed that the exclusion requires that products have one-centimeter-wide pieces within three inches of each other to qualify.
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A pasta maker found ineligible for an acquired company’s antidumping duty exemption in a 2014 changed circumstances review cannot use that predecessor’s antidumping and countervailing duty rates for entries before the effective date of the final results of that review, CBP said in a recent ruling. Instead, the pasta maker must file at the all others rate for entries before the changed circumstances review took effect, CBP said in HQ H287183, issued March 26 and posted to CBP’s CROSS database June 3.