A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Nov. 12, 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 has defined two dates for when the agency expects to deploy ACE enhancements related to steel melt and pour country reporting and when CBP hopes to implement Phase 3 of the Section 232 trade remedy on aluminum smelt, according to CBP's ACE development schedule for November.
NEW YORK -- Tyler Beckelman, a Commerce deputy assistant secretary who also sits on the interagency Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force, told a garment industry audience that the Biden administration still intends to issue a notice of proposed rulemaking on de minimis "before we all turn into pumpkins on Jan. 20."
Livingston International, a Toronto-headquartered customs brokerage firm and freight forwarder, will work with Google Cloud to modernize Livingston's data infrastructure through the use of artificial intelligence, the company announced recently.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Nov. 12 Federal Register on the following AD/CVD injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Nov. 12 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 issued a final determination that imports of the hydrofluorocarbon blend R-410B from Mexico, made using the Chinese HFC components R-32 and R-125 and exported to the U.S. for processing into the HFC blend R-410A, aren't circumventing antidumping duties on HFC blends from China (A-570-028). As a result, the anti-circumvention inquiry will end without any suspension of liquidation or AD cash deposit requirements on Mexican R-410B, it said in a Nov. 12 notice.
A Vietnamese exporter is now eligible for certification processes to exempt Vietnamese solar cells from antidumping and countervailing duties on solar cells from China (A-570-979/C-570-980), the Commerce Department said in a Nov. 12 notice.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on phosphate fertilizers from Russia (C-821-825). The agency calculated a CVD rate of 18.21% for the only company under review, Joint Stock Company Apatit and its cross-owned affiliates, slightly lower than the rate calculated in the preliminary results, i.e., 18.83%. These final results will be used to set final assessments of CVD on importers for subject merchandise entered during the period of review Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022. A new 18.21% CVD cash deposit rate for JSC Apatit and affiliates takes effect Nov. 12, the date these final results were published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on phosphate fertilizers from Morocco (C-714-001). The agency calculated a CVD rate of 16.81% for the only company under review, OCP S.A., and six affiliate companies, slightly higher than the rate calculated in the preliminary results, i.e., 14.21%. These final results will be used to set final assessments of CVD on importers for subject merchandise entered during the period of review Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022. A new 16.81% CVD cash deposit rate for OCP is effective Nov. 12, the date these final results were published in the Federal Register.