The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on superabsorbent polymers from South Korea (A-580-914). The agency preliminarily calculated a zero percent AD rate for LG Chem, Ltd., the only company under review. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from LG Chem entered between June 7, 2022, and Nov. 30, 2023, won't be assessed AD, and no cash deposits would be required on merchandise from LG Chem beginning on the date the final results are published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of a countervailing duty administrative review of softwood lumber products from Canada (C-122-858). This review covers subject merchandise from the exporters under review entered during the period Jan. 1, 2023, through Dec. 31, 2023.
The Commerce Department soon will suspend liquidation and impose antidumping duty cash deposit requirements on imports of corrosion-resistant steel products from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Africa, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam, it said in a fact sheet issued April 4.
On April 7, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the lead Republican on a bill that would prevent future executive tariffs from lasting more than 60 days without an approval in Congress, said on a phone call with reporters that it was a deliberate choice not to have the bill roll back Section 232 tariffs on autos, steel and aluminum, Section 301 tariffs on China, or tariffs on nearly all countries under the guise of national emergencies.
The potentially competing objectives of President Donald Trump's April 2 tariffs could mean that they won't go away anytime soon, experts suggested during an event hosted by the Bipartisan Policy Center.
The Court of International Trade on April 8 rejected Georgia woman Skeeter-Jo Stoute-Francois' challenge to four questions on the October 2021 customs broker license exam. Judge Lisa Wang held that for three of the questions, Stoute-Francois formulated her own "factual scenarios" in arguing that there wasn't enough information to select the correct answer. For the remaining question, Wang said CBP's correct answer choice was backed by substantial evidence.
CBP created Harmonized System Update 2513 on April 4, containing 27 Automated Broker Interface (ABI) records and 11 Harmonized Tariff Schedule records. HSU 2513 includes the Reciprocal Tariff updates, effective April 5, and PGA updates. For additional information on the tariff updates, CSMS # 64649265 is available to provide more on tariffs with an effective date of April 5 (see 2504020072).
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website April 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.
Beer in glass bottles under subheading 2203.00.0030 isn’t subject to Section 232 tariffs, CBP said April 7 in an update to a FAQ on its website.