The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on tapered roller bearings from China (A-570-601). Commerce preliminarily found that Shanghai Tainai Bearing Co., Ltd. (Tainai) had no shipments during the review period. But Tainai remains under review until final results. If it continues this finding in the final results of this review, Tainai's AD cash deposit rate won't change as a result of this review, and any entries under its case number during the period June 1, 2022, through May 31, 2023 will be liquidated at the all-others rate.
The Commerce Department will soon suspend liquidation and impose antidumping duty cash deposit requirements on imports of aluminum extrusions from Colombia, Ecuador, India, Italy, Malaysia, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam, and will also require AD cash deposits on aluminum extrusions from Indonesia, Mexico and Turkey, as well as on additional types of aluminum extrusions from China, it said in a fact sheet issued May 2 announcing its preliminary determinations in the AD investigations.
The “almost simultaneous” likely start of new antidumping and countervailing duty investigations and end of a grace period for AD/CVD on Southeast Asian solar cells and panels creates a “complicated situation for importers” with “intersecting risks,” law firm Covington said in a client alert May 1.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the following voluntary recalls May 2:
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is now allowing access for software developers to its consumer product registry for e-filing, even for those who aren’t participating in the ongoing “Beta” e-filing pilot, it said May 3. “This opportunity will provide developers additional time to test their API integration with the Product Registry prior to the voluntary test stage, beginning this summer, where any importer may begin eFiling,” CPSC said.
On May 2, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The FDA on May 2 released a final rule amending its produce safety regulations to revise requirements for agricultural water. “The final rule replaces certain pre-harvest agricultural water requirements for covered produce (other than sprouts) in the 2015 produce safety rule with requirements for systems-based agricultural water assessments to determine and guide appropriate measures to minimize potential risks associated with pre-harvest agricultural water,” the agency said in a constituent update. Effective dates range from 9 months to 33 months, depending on business size. “The rule does not alter existing requirements for agricultural water for sprouts, for which compliance dates have passed,” the FDA said.
USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation announced May 2 that Special Import Quota #3 for upland cotton will be established May 9, allowing importation of 7,680,747 kilograms (35,277 bales) of upland cotton, up from 6,902,347 kilograms (31,702 bales) in the previous quota period. The quota will apply to upland cotton purchased not later than Aug. 6, 2024, and entered into the U.S. by Nov. 4, 2024. The quota is equivalent to one week's consumption of cotton by domestic mills at the seasonally adjusted average rate for the January 2024 through March 2024 period, the most recent three months for which data is available.
The Agricultural Marketing Service set its 2024-2025 fees for voluntary grading, inspection, certification, auditing and laboratory services for meat and poultry, fruits and vegetables, dairy products, cotton and tobacco, in a notice released May 3. Covered programs include cotton classification under cotton futures legislation (7 CFR 27); cotton classing, testing and standards (7 CFR 28); grading and inspection for approved plants and standards for grades of dairy products (7 CFR 58); inspection, certification and standards for fresh fruits, vegetables and other products (7 CFR 51); processed fruits and vegetables (7 CFR 52); meats, prepared meats and meat products (7 CFR 54); livestock, meat and other agricultural commodities (7 CFR 62); agricultural and vegetable seeds (7 CFR 75); grading of shell eggs (7 CFR 56); grading of poultry and rabbit products (7 CFR 70); services and general information (7 CFR 91); and tobacco inspection (7 CFR 29). Effective dates of fee changes range from July 1 to Jan. 1, depending on the commodity.
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on May 3: