A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Dec. 17, 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:
Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, who will lead the Senate Finance Committee next year, said the Generalized System of Preferences benefits program is "a high priority for me," and he tried to get the trade preference program attached to the spending bill this week.
A five-year renewal of the Haiti HELP/HOPE trade preferences is the only tariff liberalization legislation that was attached to the federal spending bill that will keep the federal government open through mid-March.
Venable lawyers said no one knows whether President-elect Donald Trump will hike tariffs on China by 10 percentage points, by 60 percentage points, or bring current tariff levels to 60%. Nor does anyone know if the threat of 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican exports will become reality.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Dec. 17 Federal Register on the following AD/CVD injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The ITC found imports of frozen warmwater shrimp from four countries materially injure a U.S. industry, paving the way for antidumping and countervailing duty orders, the agency announced Dec. 17. It issued this final determination Dec. 12 following a Commerce Department finding that imports from Indonesia are sold in the U.S. at less than fair value and imports from Ecuador, India and Vietnam are subsidized by their countries' governments (see 2410280026). As a result, the Commerce Department will issue countervailing duty orders on frozen warmwater shrimp imports from Ecuador, India and Vietnam and an antidumping duty order on imports of the product from Indonesia.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Dec. 17 on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department is amending the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on certain aluminum foil from China (C-570-054), published Nov. 12, to correct a ministerial error that affected the duty rate calculations in those final results. The new rates will be used to set final assessments of CVD on importers for entries between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on corrosion-resistant steel products from South Korea (A-580-878). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023.