The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that in automatic five-year sunset reviews scheduled to begin in March it will consider revoking the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on sugar from Mexico (A-201-845/C-201-846) and wooden cabinets and vanities from China (A-570-106/C-570-107), as well as the AD order on small diameter graphite electrodes from China (A-570-929). These orders will be revoked, or investigation terminated, unless Commerce finds that revocation would lead to dumping and the International Trade Commission finds that revocation would result in injury to U.S. industry, Commerce said.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping duty orders on refined brown aluminum oxide from China (A-570-882) and steel threaded rod from China (A-570-932), Commerce said in a notice Feb. 3.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on thermal paper from South Korea (A-580-911). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers of subject merchandise entered between Nov. 1, 2022, and Oct. 31, 2023.
On Jan. 31, 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 said over the weekend that it is now allowing cattle and bison imports from Mexico after the agency halted imports in November 2024 when it detected the presence of new world screwworm (NWS) in southern Mexico.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Panamanian officials Feb. 2 that President Donald Trump has made a preliminary determination that China’s influence and control over the Panama Canal area threatens the waterway and violates the 1977 agreement that transferred U.S. control of the canal to Panama, according to State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Jan. 31, 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 issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
After President Donald Trump announced his sweeping tariff action on China under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, as well as now-delayed IEEPA tariffs on Mexico and Canada, trade lawyers told us to expect the duties to be challenged in court. Matt Nicely, lead counsel in the ongoing case against tariffs imposed on China during Trump's first administration, said in an email that a legal challenge is coming, a sentiment echoed across the trade bar.
After pulling back for the moment on threatened 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports, China is the only country facing imminent tariffs over fentanyl smuggling. The 10% tariffs will be added to most favored nation duties or, for goods subject to Section 301 duties of either 25% or 7.5%, to those duties and the underlying MFN rates.