The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register May 15 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 is beginning an anti-circumvention inquiry on allegations that monosodium glutamate made in Malaysia using glutamic acid from China is circumventing the antidumping duty order on MSG from China (A-570-992), the agency said in a notice.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of an antidumping duty administrative review on common alloy aluminum sheet from South Africa (A-791-825). The final results of this review will be used to set importer assessments for one South African company for the period April 1, 2022, through March 31, 2023.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on truck and bus tires from China (C-570-041). The agency calculated new CVD cash deposit rates for the Chinese producers and exporters listed below. These final results will be used to set final assessments of CV duties on importers for entries Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department is beginning two new sets of antidumping and countervailing duty investigations, one on solar cells from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, and the other on alkyl phosphate esters from China, it said in a pair of fact sheets May 15 and 14, respectively. The International Trade Commission is scheduled to make its preliminary injury determinations by June 7 for alkyl phosphate esters, and June 10 for solar cells. These AD/CVD investigations will continue only if the ITC finds injury. International Trade Today will provide more details upon publication of the initiation notices in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department will soon suspend liquidation and impose antidumping duty cash deposit requirements on imports of truck and bus tires, it said in a fact sheet issued May 15. Commerce set AD rates ranging from zero to 2.35% for Thai exporters, the agency said as it announced its preliminary determination in its ongoing AD investigation. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after the date of publication of the preliminary determination in the Federal Register, which should occur in the coming days.
On May 14, 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:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on May 15:
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., criticized President Joe Biden's decision to hike tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles under Section 301. Once the change is implemented, a Polestar or Volvo EV would be taxed at 102.5% rather than 27.5%. Rubio, in a letter sent May 14, said the tariff on cars with internal combustion engines must be equally high, because China exported 3.7 million ICE vehicles last year, compared with 1.2 million EVs.
Full details about the Section 301 exclusion process will be revealed next week, but a White House memo said that importers of machinery in chapters 84 and 85 will need to submit requests for exclusions, even though the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative already has compiled a list of HTS codes it sees as appropriate targets for exclusions. The memo said there will be a way to register opposition to those requests, as well. The memo said the USTR "shall prioritize, in particular, exclusions for certain solar manufacturing equipment."