The Commerce Department has issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on stilbenic optical brightening agents from Taiwan (A-583-848). Commerce set an AD rate of 1.04% for Teh Fong Min International Co., Ltd. (TFM), the only company under review. That rate is unchanged from the preliminary results. Subject merchandise from TFM entered between May 1, 2022, and Nov. 26, 2022, will be liquidated at importer-specific rates, Commerce said. The 1.04% AD cash deposit rate for TFM is effective May 28.
On May 24, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Treasury Department made a range of updates to its Cuba sanctions regulations this week, including one change that will allow U.S. banks to open accounts for certain Cuban nationals and authorize payments to those Cuban nationals for imports to the U.S. of certain goods and services.
The U.S. has asked Mexico to review whether workers at the Volkswagen de México, S.A. de C.V. facility in Cuautlancingo, Puebla, are being denied their rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced May 28.
The Government Accountability Office told Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, that Congress can't vote to overturn the Japan critical minerals agreement.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the weeks of May 13-19 and May 20-26:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website May 24, 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 issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
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The country of origin of a Whirlpool food waste disposer is Mexico and Section 301 duties don't apply, CBP said in a customs ruling dated May 15. The agency found that, despite the motor in the garbage disposal being of Chinese origin, the manufacturing process in Mexico substantially transformed the original components into subassemblies, which were then combined to make the final food disposer.