The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on lightweight thermal paper from China (A-570-920). Commerce continued its preliminary finding in the final results, that all three exporters under review -- Guangdong Guanhao High-Tech, Guangdong Polygon New Materials, and Henan Jianghe Paper -- did not demonstrate independence from state control, assigning them a China-wide AD duty rate of 115.29%. Commerce will assess AD at this rate on subject merchandise exported by these three companies and entered between Nov. 1, 2022, and Oct. 31, 2023. A 115.29% AD duty cash deposit rate takes effect Oct. 15 for subject merchandise exported by each of these three companies.
The Commerce Department released the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on narrow woven ribbons with woven selvedge from China (C-570-953). Commerce will use the rates set in this review to set importer assessments on entries from the two companies under review for calendar year 2022. Effective Oct. 16, Commerce will require CVD cash deposits from the companies under review as follows:
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on corrosion inhibitors from China (A-570-122). Commerce said there was no change from its preliminary results in this review. These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers for subject merchandise entered March 1, 2022, through Feb. 28, 2023.
On Oct. 11, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on Oct. 15:
The Commerce Department seeks public comments on any subsidies, including stumpage subsidies, paid by certain countries that exported softwood lumber to the U.S. Jan. 1 through June 30, 2024, it said in a notice. The Softwood Lumber Act of 2008 requires Commerce to submit a report every 180 days on any subsidy provided by nations exporting softwood lumber or softwood products to the U.S., including subsidies for stumpage. Commerce is seeking input on subsidies paid by countries whose exports composed at least 1% of total U.S. softwood imports by quantity, as classified under tariff schedule subheadings 4407.1100, 4407.1200, 4407.1300, 4407.1400 and 4407.1900, the agency said. International Trade Commission Tariff and Trade DataWeb information indicates that five countries -- Austria, Brazil, Canada, Germany and Sweden -- exported that much softwood lumber to the U.S. during that six-month period. Comments are due Nov. 14.
The Treasury Department is seeking public comments on an information collection involving the Office of Foreign Assets Control’s Rough Diamonds Control Regulations, which outline restrictions on certain diamond imports. Under the regulations, Treasury said the person listed as the ultimate consignee on the entry summary or its electronic equivalent must report that person’s receipt of a shipment of rough diamonds “to the relevant foreign exporting authority within 15 calendar days of the date that the shipment arrived at the U.S. port of entry.” Comments on the information collection are due Dec. 16.
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 Oct. 11, 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 has defined two dates in late October for when the agency expects to have enhancements ready for two initiatives, one related to the processing of multiple entry summaries and the other related to unarchiving a previous collection to make an adjustment, according to CBP's National Development & Deployment Schedule for October.