Canada is studying several policy and legislative options to strengthen its forced labor enforcement, including one that could establish new import traceability requirements for certain goods and another that could require importers to pay all fees associated with imports detained for forced labor.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Oct. 18 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 its countervailing duty administrative review on large diameter welded pipe from Turkey (C-489-834). These final results will be used to set final assessments of CV duties on importers for subject merchandise entered during calendar year 2022.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on carbon and alloy steel wire rod from South Korea (A-580-891). Commerce made some changes to the calculations it used in its preliminary results, and arrived at a 0.85% AD rate for POSCO and its affiliated company POSCO International Corp., the only company under review, lower than the preliminary 1.03% AD rate.
The Commerce Department will consider a potential new exemption from antidumping and countervailing duties for certain small, low-wattage, off-grid solar cells attached to an aluminum extrusion, it said in a trio of notices initiating changed circumstances reviews.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the following voluntary recalls Oct. 17:
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will allow importation of three species of dwarf maple -- Acer buergerianum, A. palmatum and A. pseudosieboldianum -- from South Korea into the U.S., subject to certain phytostanitary requirements, it said in a notice. Imports may be authorized beginning Oct. 21.
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on Oct. 18:
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is seeking applications for people who can serve on dispute panels reviewing final determinations in antidumping or countervailing duty proceedings when the exporter is from Mexico or Canada. The service period will begin April 1 and run through March 31, 2026. Applications are due by Nov. 29.
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., the lead sponsor of a bill to impose a 30% tariffs on Chinese drones, with a 5% escalation annually, as well as a bill banning Da-Jiang Innovations-made drones on U.S. communications infrastructure, reacted to the news that CBP is detaining DJI drones under suspicion they are made with Uyghur forced labor.