Solar manufacturers asked for retroactive relief on Section 301 tariffs on manufacturing equipment, buyers and producers disagreed on medical product tariffs and many manufacturers supported the equipment listed, and asked for more equipment or parts for equipment that was not identified by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative as it recommended a new round of exclusions limited to manufacturing equipment.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the June 28 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 June 28 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 announced the opportunity to request administrative reviews by July 31 for producers and exporters subject to 51 antidumping duty orders and 19 countervailing duty orders with July anniversary dates.
The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that in automatic five-year sunset reviews scheduled to begin in August it will consider revoking the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on steel racks from China (A-570-088/C-570-089) and steel trailer wheels from China (A-570-090/C-570-091); as well as the antidumping duty orders on fresh tomatoes from Mexico (A-201-820). These orders will be revoked, or the investigation terminated, unless Commerce finds that revocation would lead to dumping and the International Trade Commission finds that revocation would result in injury to the U.S. industry, Commerce said.
The Commerce Department is amending the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on certain carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate from Italy (A-475-834) covering the period May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2023, that were published June 7, to correct a ministerial error in a calculation, which results in a lower AD cash deposit rate for a mandatory respondent to the review.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the following voluntary recalls June 20:
On June 27, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
A bipartisan letter from the Congressional Steel Caucus urged the Commerce Department to maintain Vietnam's non-market status as part of a review that is supposed to finish next month.
The House of Representatives approved its Homeland Security appropriations bill on a 212-203 vote, with five Democrats supporting it. It cannot pass the Senate because many of its provisions only appeal to Republicans.