The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register May 10 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 antidumping duty administrative review on finished carbon steel flanges from Spain (Commerce A-469-815; CBP A-470-815). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set an assessment rate for subject merchandise for the one company that remains under review entered June 1, 2022, through May 31, 2023.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on hydrofluorocarbon blends from China (A-570-028). The agency said that none of the respondents remaining in the review demonstrated independence from state control, and therefore were assigned to the China-wide entity, with a rate of 216.37%.
The Commerce Department looks set to recognize an Indian company’s name change and corporate reorganization for the purposes of antidumping duties on frozen warmwater shrimp from India (A-533-840). The agency preliminarily found Varma Marine Private Limited (Varma) is the successor-in-interest to Varma Marine, in the preliminary results of a changed circumstances review. The agency preliminarily found Varma and Varma Marine signed a takeover agreement to transfer all Varma Marine assets to Varma, such that Varma operates as essentially the same business entity as Varma Marine with respect to the production and sale of subject merchandise.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the countervailing duty administrative review on hot-rolled steel flat products from South Korea (C-580-884). These final results will be used to set final assessments of CVD on importers for entries in calendar year 2021.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on steel concrete reinforcing bar from Mexico (A-201-844). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered Nov. 1, 2021, through Oct. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on hot-rolled steel flat products from Japan (A-588-874). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers for subject merchandise entered Oct. 1, 2021, through Sept. 30, 2022.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the following voluntary recalls May 9:
On May 9, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts (after not having posted new ones for a number of days) on the detention without physical examination of:
USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation announced May 9 that Special Import Quota #4 for upland cotton will be established May 16, allowing importation of 7,680,747 kilograms (35,277 bales) of upland cotton, the same as the previous quota period. The quota will apply to upland cotton purchased not later than Aug. 13, 2024, and entered into the U.S. by Nov. 11, 2024. The quota is equivalent to one week's consumption of cotton by domestic mills at the seasonally adjusted average rate for the January through March 2024 period, the most recent three months for which data is available.