The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Oct. 2 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 issued its final determinations in its countervailing duty investigations on aluminum extrusions from China (C-570-159), Indonesia (C-560-841), Mexico (C-201-861) and Turkey (C-489-851). Suspension of liquidation is currently not in effect for entries on or after July 9, 2024, and Commerce will only require cash deposits of estimated CV duties on future entries if it issues a CV duty order.
The Commerce Department issued its final determinations in the antidumping duty investigations on aluminum extrusions from China (A-570-158), Colombia (A-301-806), Ecuador (A-331-804), India (A-533-920), Indonesia (A-560-840), Italy (A-475-846), Malaysia (A-557-826), Mexico (A-201-860), South Korea (A-580-918), Taiwan (A-583-874), Thailand (A-549-847), Turkey (A-489-850), the United Arab Emirates (A-520-810) and Vietnam (A-552-837). Cash deposit rates set in this final determination are set to take effect Oct. 3, the scheduled publication date for these final determinations in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department will soon suspend liquidation and impose countervailing duty cash deposit requirements on imports of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, it said in a fact sheet issued Oct. 1. Commerce set CVD rates ranging from 8.25% to 68.45% for Cambodian exporters, 3.47% to 123.94% for Malaysian exporters, zero to 34.52% for Thai exporters and zero to 292.61% for all Vietnamese exporters, the agency said as it announced its preliminary determinations in its ongoing CVD investigations. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after the date of publication of the preliminary determinations in the Federal Register, which should occur in the coming days. Trina Solar in Thailand and Boviet Solar Technology in Vietnam received the zero rates, and will not be subject to suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements until further notice for merchandise they both produce and export.
On Oct. 1, 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. 2:
Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., reintroduced a bill that would require the Federal Trade Commission, in consultation with the Commerce Department, to write a report on the effects of foreign investment in U.S. pharmaceutical supply chains. The senators said their bill would provide information that would help the U.S. reduce its dependence on potentially unreliable imports, including ingredients used in generic drugs. The United States Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Review Act was referred to the Senate Banking Committee.
Rep. Carol Miller, R-W.Va., led a bipartisan letter asking the International Trade Commission to consider an antidumping and countervailing duty case brought by Ferroglobe and CC Metals and Alloys.
House Ways and Means Committee members Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, and Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., led some fellow committee members and other House members in asking U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai to brief them on the status of the dispute over Mexico's policy on genetically modified corn, and how that might affect the 2026 review of the USMCA.
Rep. Michelle Steel, R-Calif., introduced legislation that would require mediation "to be exhausted" before port workers can go on strike, she announced Oct. 2. She called the bill the Safeguarding the Supply Chain Act.