The International Trade Commission published notices in the Dec. 3 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 Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Dec. 3 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 has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on diffusion-annealed, nickel-plated flat-rolled steel products from Japan (A-588-869). Commerce set an AD rate of 4.44% for Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd., the only company under review. The final rate is a sizable reduction from the preliminary rate of 12.69%. Commerce will assess AD on importers at importer-specific rates for subject merchandise from Toyo Kohan entered May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2023, it said. The new AD duty cash deposit rate for Toyo Kohan takes effect Dec. 3, the publication date of these final results in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department on Dec. 3 published a notice announcing the opportunity to request administrative reviews by Dec. 31 for producers and exporters subject to 52 antidumping duty orders, 17 countervailing duty orders and two suspension agreements with December anniversary dates.
Suspension of liquidation and countervailing duty cash deposit requirements take effect Dec. 3 for imports of brake drums from China (C-570-175) and Turkey (C-489-854), after the Commerce Department found countervailable subsidization in preliminary determinations in its ongoing CVD investigations.
The Commerce Department made preliminary affirmative antidumping duty determinations that imports of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into modules, from Cambodia (A-555-003), Malaysia (A-557-830), Thailand (A-549-851) and Vietnam (A-552-841) are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. AD suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will generally take effect for entries on or after Dec. 4, the date that the preliminary determinations are scheduled to be published in the Federal Register, but Commerce is making the suspension of liquidation and AD cash deposits retroactive to approximately Sept. 5 for some Vietnamese and all Thai companies.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is seeking to extend the information collection on notification requirements for coal and wood-burning appliances, a Federal Register notice said. Comments on the information collection are due by Jan. 3.
On Dec. 2, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts (after not having posted new ones for a number of days) on the detention without physical examination of:
Facing Fentanyl, the Victims of Illicit Drugs and Families Against Fentanyl withdrew their Section 301 petition that asked the U.S. Trade Representative to double the 25% tariffs on Section 301 tariffs on lists 1 and 2 and asked the government to exclude Chinese goods from de minimis (see 2410180039).
The House passed a bill that would create a task force in DOJ to increase prosecutions of tariff evasion, violations of the forced labor provision and ban on goods made in North Korea, trade-based money laundering and smuggling. The bill passed by a voice vote Dec. 3.