The Commerce Department is beginning an anti-circumvention inquiry to determine whether all imports of circular welded carbon quality steel pipe from Oman made from Chinese hot-rolled steel are circumventing antidumping and countervailing duties on circular welded carbon quality steel pipe from China (A-570-910/C-570-911), it said Nov. 19.
The Commerce Department issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping duty investigations on paper file folders from Cambodia (A-555-005) and Sri Lanka (A-542-806), as well as a new countervailing duty investigation on the same product from Cambodia (C-555-006). The CVD investigation covers entries for the calendar year 2023. The AD investigations cover entries Oct. 1, 2023, through Sept. 30, 2024.
The Commerce Department is beginning new antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on overhead door counterbalance torsion springs from China and India, it said in a fact sheet Nov. 19. The underlying petition was filed in October (see 2410300036). The International Trade Commission is scheduled to make its preliminary injury determinations by Dec. 13. These AD/CVD investigations will continue only if the ITC finds injury. International Trade Today will provide more details upon publication of the initiation notices in the Federal Register.
Certain types of wheel studs will now be exempt from antidumping duties on alloy and certain carbon steel threaded rod from China (A-570-104) and countervailing duties on carbon and alloy steel threaded rod from China (C-570-105), the Commerce Department said in the final results of a changed circumstances review. The new exemption takes effect for unliquidated entries since the beginning of 2022.
The Consumer Product and Safety Commission is issuing its final rule updating the safety standard for soft infant and toddler carriers, it said in a notice. The final rule updates the mandatory standard to incorporate a 2024 version of the ASTM standard, and is effective Feb. 22, barring significant adverse comments, CPSC said.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission proposes to make the safety standard for aquatic toys such as neck floats more stringent "to address potentially deadly hazards associated with neck floats," it said in a notice of proposed rulemaking.
On Nov. 18, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts (after not having posted new ones for a number of days) on the detention without physical examination of:
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Nov. 11-17:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Nov. 18, 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.