The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Aug. 29 on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CVD 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 large diameter welded pipe (welded pipe) from South Korea (A-580-897). Rates calculated in this review will be used to set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise from three producers and exporters, SeAH Steel Corporation and Hyundai Steel Company/Hyundai Steel Pipe Co., Ltd. (HSP is the successor-in-interest to Hyundai Steel), and 21 non-individually examined companies that was entered May 1, 2023, through April 30, 2024.
The Commerce Department is correcting a company listed in the recent final results of the countervailing duty administrative review on forged steel fluid end blocks from Italy (C-475-841) for setting final assessments of CVD on importers for subject merchandise entered in calendar year 2023.
The Commerce Department issued its final determinations in its countervailing duty investigations on corrosion-resistant steel products from Brazil (C-351-863), Canada (C-122-872), Mexico (C-201-864) and Vietnam (C-552-844), after finding countervailable subsidization of producers and exporters in the four countries in the preliminary determinations of its CVD investigations.
The Commerce Department issued its final affirmative determinations in the antidumping duty investigations on certain corrosion-resistant steel products from Australia (A-602-812), Brazil (A-351-862), Canada (A-122-871), Mexico (A-201-863), the Netherlands (A-421-818), South Africa (A-791-829), Taiwan (A-583-878), Turkey (A-489-855), the United Arab Emirates (A-520-811) and Vietnam (A-552-843). Changes to cash deposit requirements set in these final determinations take effect Aug. 29, the date they were published in the Federal Register.
The U.S. invoked the rapid response labor mechanism under USMCA to investigate a Mexican meat processing facility. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said that it had received a petition alleging that workers at the Alimentos Grole facility in Mexico are being denied the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining. The U.S. has therefore suspended liquidation of unliquidated entries of goods from the facility.
Rep. Hillary Scholten, D-Mich., is asking the House Ways and Means chairman to direct the International Trade Commission to conduct a fact-finding investigation on the economic impacts of Peruvian blueberry exports on American blueberry growers.
Five House Democrats, including Rep. Gregory Meeks, ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced a resolution to terminate the emergency that allowed President Donald Trump to hike tariffs on some Brazilian goods from 10% plus most-favored nation tariffs to 50% plus MFN.
A New York man was sentenced Aug. 27 to six months in prison for "smuggling Egyptian antiquities" into the U.S., the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York announced. The defendant, Ashraf Omar Eldarir, pleaded guilty earlier this year to four counts of smuggling goods through John F. Kennedy International Airport.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters: