A domestic producer recently filed a petition with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission requesting antidumping and countervailing duties be imposed on van-type trailers and subassemblies from Canada, Mexico and China. Commerce now will decide whether to begin AD/CVD investigations, which could result in the imposition of permanent AD/CVD orders and the assessment of AD and CVD on importers. The investigation was requested by the American Trailer Manufacturers Coalition, which consists of Great Dane, Stoughton Trailers and Wabash National Corp.
On Nov. 21, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has updated its website on New World screwworm (NWS) to centralize the information available across the federal government, the agency said Nov. 21. Collaborating agencies include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the FDA, EPA, DHS and the departments of Energy, State and the Interior.
Able Groupe, an infant formula retailer, pleaded guilty on Nov. 21 to smuggling European infant formula into the U.S. and importing it in violation of the FDA's prior notice requirements, DOJ announced.
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. 21, 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 issued four withhold release orders so far in 2025, which is above 2022 and 2024 levels but well below the 12 WROs issued in 2020, according to recently updated CBP data.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, speaking after a 90-minute meeting with EU and member country counterparts, explicitly linked changes in digital regulation in the EU to relief on 50% tariffs on steel, aluminum and their derivatives, where the value of the metal is taxed.
Danielle Cossey, a staff attorney at the Commerce Department, will leave the agency to join Sidley Austin, Cossey confirmed to us. She joined Commerce in the Office of the Chief Counsel for Trade Enforcement and Compliance in 2023 after graduating from the George Washington University Law School. Cossey will start at Sidley on Dec. 1.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Nov. 21 Federal Register on the following antidumping and countervailing duty injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):