The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its countervailing duty administrative review on utility scale wind towers from Malaysia (C-557-822). This review covers subject merchandise from the exporters under review entered during calendar year 2022.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on silicon metal from Malaysia (A-557-820), calculating an AD rate of zero percent for sole mandatory respondent PMB Silicon Sdn. Bhd. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, Commerce will instruct CBP to liquidate appropriate entries entered Aug. 1, 2022, through July 31, 2023, without regard to antidumping duties. Any changes to the cash deposit rate would take effect on the publication date of the final results in the Federal Register.
On Sept. 13, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The U.S. last week filed a civil complaint against Florida importer Repwire, along with its manager Jose Pigna and insurer American Alternative Corp., alleging that the company made false statements to customs officials when it imported aluminum wire, to avoid customs duties (see 2409110061). In an accompanying news release, DOJ alleged the importer misrepresented the wire's "classification code and country of origin" through gross negligence or negligence.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Sept. 13, 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 has updated its list of merchandise descriptions defining what's considered vague and what isn't, according to a Sept. 16 cargo systems message.
In the Sept. 11 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 36), CBP published a proposal to revoke ruling letters concerning steel assembly hardware sets from Vietnam and training pants.
When filing unused merchandise drawback claims, companies can select the unit of measure they want to use for calculating per unit averaging where two units of measure are provided on the entry summary, provided that companies keep two conditions, according to a recent CROSS ruling issued by CBP.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Sept. 13 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):