The Commerce Department has published the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on multilayered wood flooring from China (C-570-971). The agency set new CV duty cash deposit rates for 14 Chinese producers and exporters. These final results will be used to set final assessments of CV duties on importers for entries between Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2021.
The Commerce Department issued its final affirmative determinations in the antidumping duty investigations on mattresses from Bosnia and Herzegovina (A-893-002), Bulgaria (A-487-001), Myanmar (formerly Burma) (A-546-001), Italy (A-475-845), the Philippines (A-565-804), Poland (A-455-807), Slovenia (A-856-002) and Taiwan (A-583-873). Changes to cash deposit requirements set in these final determinations take effect May 15, the date they are scheduled for publication in the Federal Register.
On May 13, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative will hold a virtual listening session about negotiations in the U.S.-Kenya Strategic Trade and Investment Partnership on May 16 at 10 a.m. Stakeholders who would like to attend should email MBX.USTR.IAPE@USTR.eop.gov by 6 p.m. May 15.
House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Chairman Adrian Smith, R-Mo., along with 17 Republicans on the committee, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, and Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., have introduced a Miscellaneous Tariff Bill to remove $1.3 million a day in tariffs on items not available from domestic producers.
President Joe Biden signed into law on May 13 a ban on the import of Russian uranium; the ban takes effect Sept. 16. Roughly one-fifth of nuclear power plants run on Russian uranium; the bill does allow the Energy Department to grant waivers to the ban if there is no other viable source of the fuel. However, the allowed waiver amount would decline each year, and no waiver would be allowed after 2027.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of May 6-12:
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 May 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.
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