EU member countries this week couldn't agree to new rules requiring companies to conduct specific due diligence on their supply chains to address various environmental and social concerns, including forced labor risks (see 2312150057) and 2202230073).
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Feb. 29 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 is giving advance notice that in automatic five-year sunset reviews scheduled to begin in April it will consider revoking the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on cast iron soil pipe from China (A-570-079/C-570-080); steel wheels from China (A-570-082/C-570-083); and utility scale wind towers from China (A-570-981/C-570-982). It also will consider revoking the AD orders on large residential washers from Mexico (A-201-842), and on utility scale wind towers from Vietnam (A-552-863). These orders will be revoked, or the investigation terminated, unless Commerce finds that revocation would lead to dumping and the International Trade Commission finds that revocation would result in injury to the U.S. industry, Commerce said.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on cold-rolled steel flat products from South Korea (C-580-882). These final results, slightly lower than in the preliminary results, will be used to set final assessments of CV duties on importers for subject merchandise entered Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2021.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on pasta from Italy and Turkey (A-475-818/C-475-819, A-489-805/C-489-806), Commerce said in a notice released Feb. 29.
The Commerce Department announced the opportunity to request administrative reviews by April 1 for producers and exporters subject to 35 antidumping duty orders, 21 countervailing duty orders and two suspended AD/CVD investigations with March anniversary dates.
The Commerce Department is setting new countervailing duty cash deposit requirements for imports of aluminum lithographic printing plates from China (C-570-157), after finding illegal subsidization of Chinese producers in the preliminary determination of its CV duty investigation. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after March 1, the date that the preliminary determination is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register.
On Feb. 28, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., and 40 other House Democrats are asking Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas "to crack down on the de minimis trade loopholes allowing cheap fast-fashion products to flow into the U.S."
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters: