The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its countervailing duty administrative review on common alloy aluminum sheet from India (C-533-896). The agency calculated a preliminary rate of 3.1% for Manaksia Aluminum Company Limited, the only mandatory respondent in the review. If this is upheld in the final results, the CVD rate would apply for cash deposit purposes, and for the purposes of assessments for entries from Manaksia in calendar year 2023.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (R-134a) from China (A-570-044). The review was rescinded for 25 companies for which the requests for review were withdrawn; they are listed in Appendix II of the notice. The cash deposit rate for these companies won't change as a result of this review, and any entries under their case numbers will be liquidated at a rate equal to the cash deposit of estimated AD required at the time of entry, or withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption, during the review period.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on certain mobile access equipment and subassemblies thereof from China (A-570-139). Commerce preliminarily assigned the one mandatory respondent to the review, Zhejiang Dingli Machinery Co., Ltd., an AD rate of 9.75%. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from Dingli entered April 1, 2023, through March 31, 2024, will be assessed AD at importer-specific rates. An AD cash deposit rate of 9.75% would take effect for Dingli upon publication of the final results of this review in the Federal Register.
On Aug. 7, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The U.S. filed a motion for default judgment on Aug. 7 against importer E-Dong, U.S.A. in pursuit of $234,748.30 in lost revenue due to the importer's negligent failure to pay a federal excise tax on its "Korean distilled beverage soju." The government said E-Dong lied on customs forms by misclassifying the distilled liquor as rice wine, adding that these misstatements "constitute negligent violations for failure to exercise reasonable care and competence" (United States v. E-Dong, U.S.A., CIT # 24-00066).
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Aug. 7, 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:
Once the U.S.-Japan deal is put to paper, Japanese goods will be subject to a flat 15% tariff, as long as the most-favored nation tariff that applies is at that rate or lower. For goods above 15% MFN, just the typical duty will apply, with no additional reciprocal tariff.
A recent CBP ruling saying gold bars are subject to reciprocal tariffs has sent shock waves through the gold futures market this week, according to news reports.
A group of trade associations that includes restaurants, wine shops, domestic distillers and bottle providers asked the president to allow European wines and spirits to enter the U.S. duty-free, in the case of spirits, and under most-favored nation rates, for wines, rather than the 15% EU reciprocal tariff rate.