The Commerce Department said it's rescinding the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain chassis and subassemblies thereof from China (A-570-135) for the period of review July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024, because there were no reviewable, suspended entries of subject merchandise during the review period for any of the companies for which the review had been requested. The Coalition of American Chassis Manufacturers had requested the administrative review cover four exporters -- CIMC Vehicles (Group) Co., Ltd.; Dongguan CIMC Vehicles Co., Ltd.; Qingdao CIMC Special Vehicles Co., Ltd; and SinoTrailers. Commerce will instruct CBP to assess AD on all appropriate entries, at rates equal to the cash deposit of estimated AD required at the time of entry, or withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption, it said.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has named Commissioner Peter A. Feldman acting chairman of the agency, effective immediately. Past CPSC chair and President Joe Biden appointee Alex Hoehn-Saric stepped down as chair on Jan. 21.
On Jan. 21, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service last week updated requirements pertaining to the import of fresh bell peppers (Capsicum annuum) from Spain as part of a broader effort to prevent the introduction of the Mediterranean fruit flies (Ceratitis capitata or Medfly).
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on Jan. 22:
The chairman of the House Select Committee on China said Jan. 22 that the U.S. should take a harder line against China's aggressive policies on trade, investment and other matters.
President Donald Trump posted that if Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn't "make a 'deal,' and soon, I have no other choice but to put high levels of Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States, and various other participating countries."
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 Jan. 21, 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.
CBP created Harmonized System Update 2502 on Jan. 21, containing 193 Automated Broker Interface (ABI) records and 30 Harmonized Tariff Schedule records. HSU 2502 includes HTS updates for the National Watermelon Promotion Board rate assessment, which will increase to 9 cents per hundredweight as of Jan. 22.