The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on utility scale wind towers from Malaysia (A-557-821). Commerce set an 18.02% AD rate for CS Wind Malaysia Sdn Bhd and its parent company, CS Wind Corp., the lone mandatory respondent in this review. The rate is significantly lower than the 25.92% preliminary rate calculated. Commerce will calculate importer-specific rates for subject merchandise from CS Wind entered Oct. 13, 2021, through Nov. 30, 2022, it said. The new AD duty cash deposit rate for CS Wind takes effect July 10, the date of publication of these final results in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on frozen warmwater shrimp from India (A-533-840). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers of subject merchandise entered Feb. 1, 2022, through Jan. 31, 2023.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on certain steel staples from China (A-570-112). Commerce said it continued to find that the one company remaining under review, Zhejiang Best Nail Industrial Co., Ltd. and its affiliated exporter Shaoxing Bohui Import & Export Co., Ltd. (Best Nail/Shaoxing Bohui), had no shipments of subject merchandise during the period of review. As a result, Commerce won't assess AD duties on entries from Best Nail/Shaoxing Bohui during the period July 1, 2022, though June 30, 2023. A zero percent cash deposit rate takes effect for Best Nail/Shaoxing Bohui July 9, the date these final results were published in the Federal Register.
On July 9, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on July 10:
The Bureau of Industry and Security is preparing to launch a survey of the pharmaceutical industry to gain a better understanding of the “supply chain network that underpins U.S. pharmaceutical manufacturing capabilities,” the agency said in a July 9 news release. BIS will survey hundreds of U.S. manufacturers, distributors, suppliers and customers involved in the U.S. “active pharmaceutical ingredient industrial base” in part to identify supply chain vulnerabilities and better plan for potential supply shortages. The Department of Health and Human Services requested the survey.
The House Ways and Means Committee passed a resolution to undo Treasury Department guidelines on foreign entity of concern involvement in electric vehicle supply chains. The committee passed the bill July 9 on a 25-14 vote.
CBP ignored the metadata of certain photographs and videos in an evasion investigation in order to claim they were unreliable, a wooden cabinet importer argued July 8 at the Court of International Trade (Skyview Cabinet USA v. U.S., CIT # 22-00080).
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 9, 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.