The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on polyester textured yarn from India (A-533-885). The agency preliminarily set a zero percent AD rate for the one company in the review, AYM Syntex Ltd. Should Commerce continue to set a zero percent AD rate for AYM Syntex in the final results of this review, the company will not be subject to an AD cash deposit requirement until further notice, and subject merchandise from AYM Syntex entered Jan. 1, 2023, through Dec. 31, 2023, would not be assessed antidumping duties.
The Commerce Department recently set a new uniform policy regarding filing deadline extensions in antidumping duty and countervailing duty proceedings, shortening the time parties get for extensions to initial and supplemental questionnaires, according to an internal memo we obtained. Commerce often applies penalty rates to companies that miss deadlines in AD/CVD cases. The new policy comes amid the Donald Trump administration's efforts to leverage AD/CVD laws to impose higher duties (see 2501280067).
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has published a direct final rule that updates the safety standard for stationary activity centers to incorporate an updated ASTM standard, it said in a Federal Register notice.
On March 26, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
Just before 2 a.m. on March 27, President Donald Trump posted on social media: "If the European Union works with Canada in order to do economic harm to the USA, large scale Tariffs, far larger than currently planned, will be placed on them both in order to protect the best friend that each of those two countries has ever had!"
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website March 26, 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:
The European Union is going to be the "major victim" of President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" on April 2, experts at the Center for Strategic and International Studies predicted.
Trade facilitation appears to be taking a back seat to trade enforcement, based on recent actions taken by President Donald Trump and the Department of Government Efficiency to streamline federal operations, said a trade attorney during a March 26 webinar on tariffs and recent trade actions sponsored by Venable.
Reactions from across the U.S. automotive industry and the world poured in after President Donald Trump announced 25% tariffs on all imports of automobiles beginning April 3.