The Commerce Department soon will suspend liquidation and impose countervailing duty cash deposit requirements on imports of melamine from Germany, India, Qatar and Trinidad and Tobago, it said in a fact sheet issued July 16. Commerce set CVD rates at 29.72% for all German exporters, 17.09% for all Indian exporters, 40.49% for all Qatari exporters and 5.13% for all Trinidadian exporters, the agency said as it announced its preliminary determinations in its ongoing CVD investigations. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after the date of publication of the preliminary determinations in the Federal Register, which should occur in the coming days.
The Commerce Department will conclude its countervailing duty investigation on mattresses from Indonesia without imposing a CVD order, it said in a fact sheet announcing its final negative determination in the CVD investigation, as well as affirmative antidumping duty investigations for four other countries. For those other four countries, the agency amended some AD rates from its preliminary determinations, setting them at 13.35% to 42.76% for India, 63.66% to 344.7% for Kosovo, 37.59% to 61.97% for Mexico and 4.61% to 280.28% for Spain. The amended rates will be effective upon publication of these final determinations in the Federal Register in the coming days. Commerce issued AD orders for mattresses from eight other countries on July 11 (see 2407160012).
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is seeking comments on changes to language incorporated by reference in the rule governing safety standards for infant bath seats to include a revised voluntary ASTM standard on infant bath seats. CPSC will be accepting comments through Aug. 1 on whether the revision improves the safety of infant bath seats.
On July 16, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service intends to allow imports of leaves and stems of fresh sage from Ethiopia into the continental U.S., it said in a notice. An agency pest risk analysis found that “the application of one or more designated phytosanitary measures will be sufficient to mitigate the risks of introducing or disseminating plant pests or noxious weeds via the importation of leaves and stems of fresh sage from Ethiopia,” APHIS said. If APHIS finalizes the decision, it will allow imports into the U.S., subject to the phytosanitary requirements specified by the agency. Comments will be accepted through Sept. 16.
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on July 17:
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, in a sit-down interview with Bloomberg shortly before the attempt on his life, argued that tariffs are "phenomenal" economically -- "and man, is it good for negotiation."
CBP issued the following release on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website July 16, 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 released its July 17 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 28). Among a number of general notices published in the bulletin are a notice of issuance of a final determination concerning a DisplayPort male-to-female video adapter (see 2407010033), and a notice of the revocation of nine ruling letters and the revocation of treatment relating to the tariff classification of wireless headphone sets from China, Mexico and an undisclosed country of origin (see 2404240061).