The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Jan. 14 on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CVD rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on passenger vehicle and light truck tires from Thailand (A-549-842). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise from the 11 companies remaining under review entered July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on welded stainless steel pressure pipe from Vietnam (A-552-816). Rates calculated in this review will be used to set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise from producers and exporters that was entered July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on stainless steel sheet and strip in coils from Taiwan (A-583-831). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers for subject merchandise entered July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024.
The Commerce Department soon will suspend liquidation and impose antidumping duty cash deposit requirements on imports of lattice boom crawler cranes from Japan, it said in a fact sheet issued Jan. 14.
The Internal Revenue Service said it is considering the addition of five chemicals to its list of taxable substances subject to the Superfund tax on imports. The agency seeks comments by March 16 on petitions to add acrylate monomer synthetic rubber in a water emulsion imported under Harmonized Tariff Schedule subheading 4002.91.0000 at a tax rate of $5.73/ton; methyl methacrylate-ethyl methacrylate-methacrylic acid copolymer in a styrene solution under HTS subheading 3906.90.5000 at a tax rate of $11.55/ton; styrene-DVB-EVB with styrene content of greater than 50% under HTS subheading 3903.90.5000 at a tax rate of $9.93/ton; styrene-DVB-EVB with styrene content of less than 50% under HTS subheading 3903.90.5000 at a tax rate of $10.03/ton; and vinyl acetate-crotonic acid copolymer in a styrene solution under HTS subheading 3905.29.0000 at tax rate of $7.48/ton.
Witnesses at a House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee hearing about digital trade and international protections of intellectual property rights praised the Trump administration's work on maintaining a moratorium on customs duties on electronic transmissions, such as music downloads, streaming films and software.
The Court of International Trade on Jan. 14 confirmed that the government's stipulation regarding the availability of refunds from tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act "applies to all current and future similarly situated plaintiffs."
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. 13, 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.