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:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Feb. 28, 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 posted the following documents ahead of the March 6 Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) meeting, which begins at 1 p.m. EST:
CBP has released its Feb. 28 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 8). While it contains recent court decisions, no customs rulings are included.
The new Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism portal will only need a few more weeks before it can get back to where CTPAT was in terms of functionality before the creation of the new portal, said Mark Isaacson, CBP's CTPAT field director in Buffalo, New York. Isaacson said that CBP has a dedicated team working toward making the portal "very user-friendly," which has resulted in a lot of updates.