The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that in automatic five-year sunset reviews scheduled to begin in October it will consider revoking the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders on commodity matchbooks from India (A-533-848/C-533-849) and prestressed concrete steel wire strand (PC strand) from India (A-533-828/C-533-829), as well as the antidumping duty orders on monosodium glutamate (MSG) from China (A-570-992) and Indonesia (A-560-826), tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol from China (A-570-887) and PC strand from Brazil (A-351-837), Japan (A-588-068), Mexico (A-201-831), South Korea (A-580-852) and Thailand (A-549-820). These orders will be revoked, or the investigation terminated, unless Commerce finds that revocation would lead to dumping and the International Trade Commission finds that revocation would result in injury to the U.S. industry, Commerce said.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on hot-rolled steel flat products from the Netherlands (A-421-813). The agency preliminarily calculated a 5.67% AD rate for the only company under review, Tata Steel Ijmuiden BV. Any changes to cash deposit rates for Tata Steel would take effect on the publication date of the final results of this review, currently due in January. If this rate is confirmed in the final results, Commerce would assess AD at importer-specific rates for subject merchandise from Tata Steel entered Oct. 1, 2023, through Sept. 30, 2024.
On Aug. 29, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The FDA is allowing the safe use of hydrogen peroxide in food as an antimicrobial agent, oxidizing and reducing agent, and bleaching agent, according to a final rule to be published in the Federal Register Sept. 3, the date it also becomes effective. The agency also is allowing hydrogen peroxide to be used as a food additive that can remove sulfur dioxide.
Over one-third of retail-packaged frozen seafood products sampled by the FDA for short weighting failed to be compliant with net weight declaration on the product label, and those importers found violating compliance have been placed on an import alert, according to results from the agency released on Sept. 2.
The National Marine Fisheries Service, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has published its comparability finding determinations for all fisheries on the list of foreign fisheries, the agency said in a Federal Register notice.
The House Appropriations Committee released a summary of its plans for several agencies on Sept. 1, and said it intends to eliminate funding for the Bureau of International Labor Affairs. That bureau, commonly known as ILAB, prepares the annual report on products made with the worst forms of child labor and forced labor. It also has an app to help companies called "SourceRight."
The U.S. apparently failed to implement promised tariff reductions on European Union goods in time for a Sept. 1 deadline outlined in an EU-U.S. joint statement issued Aug. 21.
President Donald Trump claimed that India offered to "cut their Tariffs to nothing," as India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, stood firm against U.S. tariff pressure and promised deeper trade ties with Russia.
Surety company U.S. Specialty Insurance Company argued in an Aug. 29 complaint at the Court of International Trade that CBP failed to use transaction value to value importer Cheer Rise's garment entries. Instead, the agency arbitrarily decided to use the "fall back method" of appraisal, "rendering the appraisement unlawful," the complaint said (U.S. Specialty Insurance Co. v. United States, CIT # 25-00188).