The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on welded carbon steel standard pipes and tubes from India (A-533-502). The review began with 30 companies. In the preliminary results, Commerce determined to rescind the review for 29 of those companies because petitioner Nucor Tubular Products Inc., a domestic interested party, withdrew its request for an administrative review of them. The remaining company, Surya Roshni Limited, was preliminarily found to have no subject shipments during the period of review, May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2023, but will remain under review for appropriate instructions to be issued to CBP in the final results of the review, due in June.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on certain metal lockers and parts thereof from China (A-570-133). Commerce will assess AD at rates determined in these final results on subject merchandise from the companies under review entered Feb. 11, 2021, through July 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on electrolytic manganese dioxide from China (A-570-919). Commerce continued to find that the one company under review -- Duracell (China) Limited (DCL) -- isn't eligible for a separate rate and is part of the China-wide entity, with an AD rate of 149.92%.
EPA recently released a new guidance document on “absence of an ingredient” claims in products regulated under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act. The agency said it will review such claims on pesticide labeling on a “case-by-case basis,” and provided examples of acceptable and unacceptable “absence of an ingredient claims” for bleach, phosphates and N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide (DEET). The guidance document also “outlines the actions that may be taken by applicants and registrants who wish to modify their registrations or applications based on this guidance.”
On Feb. 7, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
For Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., the future of U.S. trade policy is to make climate a trade policy priority, work with global allies to set digital trade standards and deepen the U.S. trading relationship with the global south.
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. 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.
Starting March 1, non-industrial diamonds of 1 carat or greater, mined in Russia but with another country of origin cannot be entered into the U.S., whether by import or into a foreign-trade zone, unless the Office of Foreign Assets Control licensed that import.
Midway through the second term of solar safeguards, imports of solar panels (modules) and cells have been climbing, and the market has almost entirely shifted to bifacial solar panels, which were at first carved out of the safeguard. Whether a decision to revoke that exclusion in 2019 was legal is still being litigated (see 2311130031 and 2401290014).