Canadian Solar, which is ramping up a 5-gigawatt solar panel manufacturing factory in Texas, told the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative that tariff rate quotas on solar cells under the current safeguard action and Section 301 tariffs on machinery that helps make solar panels and cells are harming solar manufacturers. Canadian Solar also is working on opening a solar cell plant in Indiana, but it won't open until late 2025. It imports cells made in Thailand. The TRQ only allows five gigawatts' worth of tariff-free cells in annually.
In the first third of its first public hearing on promoting supply chain resilience, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and interagency officials heard from groups disputing the premise of the project -- that liberalizing trade was harmful to U.S. workers and manufacturing -- and from those who say the worker-centered trade approach of the Biden administration is not going far enough to restore American manufacturing.
Masud Husain, a Canadian foreign service official, will replace Sheri Meyerhoffer as the new head of the government agency that investigates human rights concerns, including forced labor, in Canadian-linked supply chains, the country announced April 30. Husain will take over “later this year” in an interim role as the Canadian ombudsperson for responsible enterprise (CORE), Canada said.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the May 2 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 Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register May 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 has published the preliminary results of its countervailing duty administrative review on phosphate fertilizers from Russia (C-821-825). The agency calculated a preliminary rate of 18.83% for Joint Stock Company Apatit, the only company under review. That 18.83% CVD rate would apply for cash deposit purposes, and for the purposes of assessments for entries from Apatit for entries in calendar year 2022. Changes to Apatit's cash deposit rate would take effect beginning on the date of publication of the final results in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department announced the opportunity to request administrative reviews by May 31 of producers and exporters subject to 66 antidumping duty orders and 21 countervailing duty orders with May anniversary dates, as well as one AD order on preserved mushrooms from France that was published in a previous notice with the wrong period of review.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its countervailing duty administrative review on phosphate fertilizers from Morocco (C-714-001). The agency calculated a preliminary rate of 14.21% for OCP S.A., the only company under review. That 14.21% CVD rate would apply for cash deposit purposes, and for the purposes of assessments for entries from OCP for entries during calendar year 2022. Changes to OCP's cash deposit rate would take effect beginning on the date of publication of the final results in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its countervailing duty administrative review on common alloy aluminum sheet from India (C-533-896). The agency calculated a preliminary rate of 54.12% for Hindalco Industries Limited and its cross-owned affiliates Hindalco-Almex Aerospace Limited, Minerals & Minerals Limited, Utkal Alumina International Limited, Suvas Holding Limited and Birla Copper Asoj Private Limited. The other mandatory respondent, Manaksia Aluminum Company Limited, was assigned a preliminary rate of 2.9%. Virgo Aluminum Limited, which was not selected for individual review, was preliminarily assigned an average rate of the two mandatory respondents, 5.32%. The CVD rates would apply for cash deposit purposes, and for the purposes of assessments for entries from the three companies and any of their affiliates in calendar year 2022.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on certain mobile access equipment and subassemblies thereof from China (A-570-139). Commerce preliminarily assigned the only company remaining under review, Zhejiang Dingli Machinery Co., Ltd., an AD rate of 9.33%. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from Dingli entered April 13, 2022, through March 31, 2023, will be assessed AD at importer-specific rates. An AD cash deposit rate of 9.33% would take effect for Dingli upon publication of the final results of this review in the Federal Register.