The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its countervailing duty administrative review on forged steel fluid end blocks from India (C-533-894). The agency calculated a preliminary rate of 3.76% for Bharat Forge Limited and its affiliates Bharat Forge Utilities Limited and Saarloha Advanced Materials Private Limited, the only company under review. If that rate is finalized in the final results of this review, the 3.76% CVD rate would apply for cash deposit purposes, and for the purposes of assessments for entries from Bharat Forge in calendar year 2022. Changes to Bharat Forge's cash deposit rate would take effect beginning on the date of publication of the final results in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department on Feb. 5 released the preliminary results of its antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on softwood lumber products from Canada (A-122-857/C-122-858). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set AD and CVD assessment rates for subject merchandise for the companies under review entered Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on steel nails from South Korea (A-580-874). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers of subject merchandise entered July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on passenger vehicle and light truck tires from South Korea (A-580-908). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers for subject merchandise entered Jan. 6, 2021, through June 30, 2022.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on polyethylene terephthalate film from India (A-533-824). Commerce found that SRF Limited/SRF Limited of India/SRF Limited Packaging Films did not undersell subject merchandise during the period of review, assigning it a zero percent AD rate. It also assigned that zero percent rate to Jindal Poly Films and Polyplex Corporation Ltd. Subject merchandise from all three companies entered July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022, will be liquidated without any assessment of AD duties, and future entries of subject merchandise exported by SRF, Jindal and Polyplex will not be subject to AD duty cash deposit requirements until further notice. The new zero percent AD cash deposit rates take effect Feb. 5, the date the final results were published in the Federal Register.
On Feb. 2, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements is adding several types of nylon dobby weave fabric to the "short supply list" in Annex 3.25 of the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement for items not commercially available in a timely manner, it said in a notice. Powers Manufacturing Company, which does business as Powers Athletic, requested the additions in December. The fabrics, classifiable under Harmonized Tariff Schedule subheadings 5407.43.2030 and 5407.42.2060, are being added in unrestricted quantities. Under short supply provisions of CAFTA-DR, fibers, yarns and fabrics listed in Annex 3.25 are provided with tariff preferences under the trade agreement.
Former President Donald Trump, in a television appearance with Maria Bartiromo, bragged about the "big tariffs" he put in to stop the import of Chinese steel, and denied a Washington Post report that he is thinking about imposing a flat 60% tariff on Chinese imports if reelected.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Feb. 2, 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: