The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on frozen fish fillets from Vietnam (A-552-801). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise from the companies remaining under review entered August 2022 through July 2023.
Three grape grower trade groups filed a complaint on Sept. 13 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, challenging the Agriculture Department's notice allowing table grapes from Chile to be imported under a "systems approach" as opposed to using the standard fumigation requirements (California Table Grape Commission v. United States Department of Agriculture, D.D.C. # 24-02645).
The Commerce Department published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on wood mouldings and millworks products from China (A-570-117). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered Feb. 1, 2022, through Jan. 31, 2023.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on steel nails from China (A-570-909). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise from 11 companies under review entered August 2022 through July 2023.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on passenger vehicle and light truck tires from China (A-570-016). In the final results of this review, Commerce may set assessment rates for subject merchandise from the companies under review that was entered August 2022 through July 2023.
Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce's Health Subcommittee criticized the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products for giving its blessing to so few vaping delivery systems and liquids put in electronic cigarettes, saying that the vast black market of vaping products is benefiting China, and that having so few legitimate products available makes it more dangerous for smokers who are wanting to switch from cigarettes to vaping, which is less harmful to their health.
An effort by CBP and the Transportation Security Administration to improve the monitoring of imported air cargo through modifications in data collection is creating confusion among airforwarders and reportedly causing airlines to think twice about delivering cargo to the U.S. and Canada.
Ferrosilicon: Prelim CVD Rates Take Effect for Brazil, Kazakhstan and Malaysia; Retroactive for Some
The Commerce Department is setting new countervailing duty cash deposit requirements for imports of ferrosilicon from Brazil (C-351-861), Kazakhstan (C-834-813) and Malaysia (C-557-829), after finding countervailable subsidization of producers and exporters in the three countries in the preliminary determinations of its CVD investigations. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will generally take effect for entries on or after Sept. 10, the date that the preliminary determinations were published in the Federal Register, but Commerce is making the suspension of liquidation and CVD cash deposits retroactive to approximately June 12 for some Brazilian and Malaysian companies.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
On Sept. 6, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of: