The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that in automatic five-year sunset reviews scheduled to begin in March it will consider revoking the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on pasta from Italy (A-475-818/C-475-819) and Turkey (A-489-805/C-489-806). These orders will be revoked, or the investigation terminated, unless Commerce finds that revocation would lead to dumping and the International Trade Commission finds that revocation would result in injury to U.S. industry, Commerce said.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on steel nails from Taiwan (A-583-854). Commerce said it made certain changes to the rate calculation for Your Standing International, making the final rate higher than in the preliminary results of this review, and that changed the review average rate as well. Commerce will set assessments of antidumping duties for subject merchandise entered July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022. New cash deposit rates set in these final results take effect Feb. 1.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate from Italy (A-475-834). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise for the two companies under review entered May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2023.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on corrosion resistant steel from South Korea (C-580-879). These final results will be used to set final assessments of CV duties on importers for subject merchandise entered Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2021.
Fritech slabs, which are waste mineral-based surface products manufactured by Vanguard Trading Company, are covered by the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on quartz surface products from China because they are predominantly made of silica, the Commerce Department said in a Jan. 29 scope ruling.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells and modules from China (A-570-979/C-570-980); large diameter welded pipe from China (A-570-077/C-570-078), India (A-533-881/C-533-882), South Korea (A-580-897/C-580-898) and Turkey (A-489-833/C-489-834); and plastic decorative ribbons from China (A-570-075/C-570-076). It also will consider revoking the AD orders on large diameter welded pipe from Canada (A-122-863) and Greece (A-484-803), and on sodium hexametaphosphate from China (A-570-908), Commerce said in a notice released Jan. 31.
On Jan. 30, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The FDA released updates Jan. 30 to two chapters of its draft guidance on its Food Safety Modernization Act regulations on preventive controls for human food. The agency added additional information to the introduction of the draft guidance, first released in 2016 (see 1608230028), as well as to an appendix that details potential hazards that may need to be addressed.
House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Chairman Adrian Smith, R-Neb., along with Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., and two California Democrats, announced they are launching a caucus to push for boosting agricultural exports and knocking down trade barriers in ag.
Both of Georgia's senators, plus Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., urged the Biden administration to raise Section 301 tariffs on Chinese solar panels, cells and wafers. They said a Chinese panel costs more than 60% less than U.S.-made panels.