The International Trade Commission is beginning a formal enforcement proceeding to consider allegations that Rhino Inc. and Wuxi Emsrun are violating cease and desist orders barring import and sale of their blood flow restriction devices with rotatable windlasses (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1364) (see 2410040034), the ITC said in a notice to be published March 21. Composite Resources Inc. and North American Rescue, the complainants in the underlying Section 337 investigation, say Rhino and Wuxi Emsrun have "continued to sell articles that infringe" their patents and trade dress, "in violation of the CDOs."
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register March 20 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 is beginning an antidumping investigation on chassis and subassemblies thereof from Mexico, Thailand and Vietnam, and a countervailing duty investigation of the same goods from Mexico and Thailand, it said in a fact sheet March 19. The underlying petition was filed earlier this month (see 2503030055). The International Trade Commission is scheduled to make its preliminary injury determinations by April 14. These AD/CVD investigations will continue only if the ITC finds injury. International Trade Today will provide more details upon publication of the initiation notices in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on forged steel fittings from South Korea (A-580-904). The agency preliminarily calculated a 18.72% AD rate for the only company under review, Samyoung Fitting Co., Ltd. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from Samyoung entered Dec. 1, 2022, through Nov. 30, 2023, will be assessed AD at importer-specific rates. Any changes to the cash deposit rate for Samyoung would take effect on the date of publication in the Federal Register of the final results of this review, currently due in July.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of a countervailing duty administrative review of multilayered wood flooring from China (C-570-971). This review covers subject merchandise from the exporters under review entered during the period Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on polyethylene retail carrier bags from Malaysia (A-557-813). Commerce calculated a zero percent AD rate for the only company under review, Euro SME Sdn. Bhd. and its affiliate Euro Nature Green Sdn. Bhd., unchanged from the preliminary results. Subject merchandise from Euro SME entered Aug. 1, 2022, through July 31, 2023, won't be assessed AD. The new zero percent AD cash deposit rate takes effect for Euro SME and its affiliate March 21, the date these final results are to be published in the Federal Register.
On March 19, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Commerce Department hinted at the potential for a future free trade agreement with Britain in a press release on March 19.
Four Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation to prevent the importation of devices which convert semiautomatic weapons into fully-automatic ones.
National Association of Foreign-Trade Zones Chair Shannon Fura, a founder of Chicago law firm Page Fura, said the language in President Donald Trump's recent executive orders creating new tariffs, which say that goods must pay tariffs before entering FTZs, "are handcuffing some of the benefits" that FTZs are designed to provide.