CBP has imposed interim measures on 10 companies cited for allegedly evading antidumping and countervailing duties when importing oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from China.
Sen. Marco Rubio, co-author of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, along with the leaders of the House Homeland Security Committee and the House Select Committee on China, have provided detailed supply chain maps for lithium-ion battery makers CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co.) and Gotion High Tech, linking them to companies that transfer Uyghur workers and companies that mine minerals or make aluminum in Xinjiang.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register June 5 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 preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on pure magnesium from China (A-570-832). The agency said that the only companies under review, Tianjin Magnesium International Co., Ltd., and its affiliate Tianjin Magnesium Metal, Co., Ltd., had a dumping margin of 93.97% for subject merchandise to the U.S. during the period under review, May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2023. If Commerce's finding for TMI and TMM is continued in the final results, subject merchandise from the companies during that period will be assessed AD at importer-specific rates. A 93.97% AD cash deposit rate for TMI and TMM would take effect when Commerce issues the final results, currently due in October.
A half-dozen Democratic senators, led by Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, along with Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, and a half-dozen Democrats in the House told the International Trade Commission that they support the antidumping and countervailing duty petitions filed in April (see 2404240071) targeting solar panel manufacturers in Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website June 4, 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.
Although Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, happily described a trade preferences hearing as a "pro-trade love fest," comments from the panel's top Republican and its chair revealed why the Generalized System of Preferences benefits program, which has broad support, has spent years stalled in Congress.
The Commerce Department on June 4 published its quarterly list of (i) completed antidumping and countervailing duty scope rulings and (ii) anti-circumvention determinations. The following list covers completed scope rulings for the period Oct. 1, 2023, through Dec. 31, 2023:
U.S. importer Water Pik will avoid Section 301 duties on its electromechanical oral hygiene devices from China after arguing that CBP should have classified them under a different Harmonized Tariff Schedule subheading (Water Pik v. United States, CIT # 23-00083).
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website June 3, 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.