The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is seeking applications for people who can serve on dispute panels reviewing final determinations in antidumping or countervailing duty proceedings when the exporter is from Mexico or Canada. The service period will begin April 1 and run through March 31, 2026. Applications are due by Nov. 29.
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., the lead sponsor of a bill to impose a 30% tariffs on Chinese drones, with a 5% escalation annually, as well as a bill banning Da-Jiang Innovations-made drones on U.S. communications infrastructure, reacted to the news that CBP is detaining DJI drones under suspicion they are made with Uyghur forced labor.
Five Republican governors asked the Biden administration to collaborate with the FDA to identify foreign manufacturers that produce sterile IV solutions and the containers for those solutions.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Oct. 17, 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.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
A group of parents and other family members of those who overdosed on fentanyl are asking the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to double the 25% Section 301 tariffs on lists 1 and 2 under the existing Section 301 action, combined with no de minimis eligibility for all Chinese goods.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Oct. 17 Federal Register on the following AD/CVD injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The International Trade Commission seeks comments by Oct. 24 on a recently filed Section 337 complaint alleging imports of electronic eyewear products from ByteDance, HTC, Meta and Valve are infringing patents held by IngenioSpec, the ITC said in an Oct. 16 notice.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Oct. 17 on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department looks set to recognize the name change of a South Korean company for the purposes of antidumping duties on various pipe products (large diameter welded pipe, A-580-897; circular welded non-alloy steel pipe, A-580-809; and welded line pipe, A-580-876) and oil country tubular goods (OCTG) (A-580-870) from South Korea. The agency preliminarily found that Hyundai Steel Pipe Co., Ltd. is the successor-in-interest to Hyundai Steel Company, in the preliminary results of a changed circumstances review. The agency preliminarily found HSP continues to operate as the same business entity as Hyundai Steel. If Commerce confirms its finding in the final results, HSP may inherit the AD rate assigned to Hyundai Steel in the AD review.