The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Jan. 24 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):
Antidumping duty and countervailing duty investigations on erythritol from China will continue, after the International Trade Commission voted Jan. 24 that there is a “reasonable indication” that imports of the product are injuring U.S. industry, the ITC said in a news release. The Commerce Department will now consider whether to impose AD/CVD cash deposit requirements on erythritol in preliminary determinations, which are due March 10 for CVD and on or about May 22 for AD.
The Commerce Department soon will impose antidumping duty cash deposit requirements on imports of low-speed personal transportation vehicles from China, it said in a fact sheet issued Jan. 24. Commerce set AD rates ranging from 127.35% to 478.09% for Chinese exporters, it announced in its preliminary determinations in its ongoing AD investigation. Commerce already has suspended liquidation and imposed countervailing duty cash deposit requirements in its ongoing CVD investigation of the vehicles (See 2411270054). AD cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after the date of publication of the preliminary determinations of the AD investigation in the Federal Register, which should occur in the coming days.
The Commerce Department soon will impose antidumping duty cash deposit requirements on imports of brake drums from China and Turkey, it said in a fact sheet issued Jan. 24. Commerce set AD rates ranging from 109.64% to 160.79% for Chinese exporters and 12.73% to 142.29% for Turkish exporters, it announced in its preliminary determinations in its ongoing AD investigation. Commerce already has suspended liquidation and imposed countervailing duty cash deposit requirements on imports of brake drums from China and Turkey (see 2412030045). AD cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after the date of publication of the AD investigation preliminary determinations in the Federal Register, which should occur in the coming days.
The Commerce Department is ending antidumping duties on a Vietnamese fish exporter after reaching an agreement with the government of Vietnam to end a related World Trade Organization dispute. Effective Aug. 1, 2021, Commerce is partially revoking Vinh Hoan Corporation from the AD order on frozen fish fillets from Vietnam (A-552-801). The agency will order liquidation of any unliquidated entries produced and exported by Vinh Hoan on or after that effective date, and will direct CBP to refund any AD cash deposits on those entries and stop collecting AD cash deposits on future entries.
The Commerce Department began administrative reviews for certain firms subject to antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders with December anniversary dates, it said in a notice. Producers and exporters subject to any of these administrative reviews on China must submit their separate rate certifications or applications by Feb. 10 to avoid being assigned high China-wide rates.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the following voluntary recalls Jan. 23:
San Francisco-based Fitbit will pay a $12.25 million civil penalty as part of a settlement with the Consumer Product Safety Commission for delays in alerting CPSC of a defect that allegedly caused second- and third-degree burns for some users, according to a Federal Register notice scheduled to be published Jan. 27.
On Jan. 23, 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:
A bipartisan bill has been introduced in the House that would require that the minimum tariff charged on Chinese goods be 35%, that tariffs higher than 35% in Column 2 of HTS be applied to some Chinese imports, 100% tariffs on hundreds of items on the Section 301 target list, and that the bound rates for U.S. tariffs, as declared at the World Trade Organization, should be changed to Column 2 for all countries.