The Commerce Department made preliminary affirmative antidumping duty determinations that imports of aluminum lithographic printing plates from China (A-570-156) and Japan (A-588-881) are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The agency will impose AD cash deposit requirements retroactively on entries of subject merchandise from China beginning Feb. 1, 2024. For Japanese exporters, suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements take effect May 1, 2024.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from China (A-570-910/C-570-911); glycine from India (A-533-833/C-533-834); and laminated woven sacks from Vietnam (A-552-823/C-552-824). It also will consider revoking the AD orders on glycine from Japan (A-588-878) and Thailand (A-549-837) and silicomanganese from India (A-533-823) and Kazakhstan (A-834-807), as well as the CVD orders on glycine from China (C-570-081) and Venezuela (C-307-820), Commerce said in a notice May 1.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register May 1 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 has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on multilayered wood flooring from China (A-570-970). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered Dec. 1, 2021, through Nov. 30, 2022.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on alloy and certain carbon steel threaded rod from China (A-570-104). The agency assigned Ningbo Dongxin High-Strength Nut Co., Ltd., the only company remaining under review, an AD rate of 35.1%. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from Ningbo Donxin entered April 1, 2022, through March 31, 2023, will be assessed AD at that 35.1% rate. An AD cash deposit rate of 35.1% would take effect for Ningbo Dongxin upon publication of the final results of this review in the Federal Register, currently set for September.
On April 30, 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 May 1:
A bill that would ban the import of Russian uranium 90 days from enactment passed the Senate by unanimous consent on April 30. The Prohibiting Russian Uranium Act had passed the House in December (see 2312120008).
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 April 30, 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.