A bipartisan bill that directs the Energy Department to support development and adoption of digital identification systems for batteries and components was introduced in the House this week. The adoption would be voluntary.
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 May 2, 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.
Representatives from the domestic textiles industry testified at an Office of the U.S. Trade Representative hearing May 2 regarding ways to promote supply chain resilience, especially after many were disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic (see 2404290057).
Canadian Solar, which is ramping up a 5-gigawatt solar panel manufacturing factory in Texas, told the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative that tariff rate quotas on solar cells under the current safeguard action and Section 301 tariffs on machinery that helps make solar panels and cells are harming solar manufacturers. Canadian Solar also is working on opening a solar cell plant in Indiana, but it won't open until late 2025. It imports cells made in Thailand. The TRQ only allows five gigawatts' worth of tariff-free cells in annually.
In the first third of its first public hearing on promoting supply chain resilience, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and interagency officials heard from groups disputing the premise of the project -- that liberalizing trade was harmful to U.S. workers and manufacturing -- and from those who say the worker-centered trade approach of the Biden administration is not going far enough to restore American manufacturing.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register May 2 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 announced the opportunity to request administrative reviews by May 31 of producers and exporters subject to 66 antidumping duty orders and 21 countervailing duty orders with May anniversary dates, as well as one AD order on preserved mushrooms from France that was published in a previous notice with the wrong period of review.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on certain mobile access equipment and subassemblies thereof from China (A-570-139). Commerce preliminarily assigned the only company remaining under review, Zhejiang Dingli Machinery Co., Ltd., an AD rate of 9.33%. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from Dingli entered April 13, 2022, through March 31, 2023, will be assessed AD at importer-specific rates. An AD cash deposit rate of 9.33% would take effect for Dingli upon publication of the final results of this review in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of a countervailing duty administrative review of aluminum foil from China (C-570-054). This review covers subject merchandise from the exporters under review entered during the period Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022.