A "snapshot" report just released by the Government Accountability Office reminded Congress that the GAO has studied -- and made recommendations -- on many aspects of how to manage economic competition with China, including providing more resources to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, improving information sharing with companies to keep more counterfeits out of U.S. commerce, and improving the tariff exclusions process for steel and aluminum imports.
The Commerce Department will soon impose antidumping duty cash deposit requirements on imports of aluminum lithographic printing plates from China and Japan, according to a fact sheet issued April 26. The agency said it has made its preliminary determination in its ongoing AD investigations, and will set AD on China ranging from 38.57% to 107.62% (38.56% to 107.61% as adjusted for cash deposit purposes), and on Japan ranging from 87.81% to 157.16%, when it publishes that preliminary determination in the Federal Register. Lithographic printing plates from China already are subject to suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements for countervailing duty purposes (see 2404050037).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register April 29 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 issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) from China and India (A-570-160/C-570-161, A-533-922/C-533-923). The CVD investigations and the AD investigation on India cover entries for the calendar year 2023. The AD investigation China covers entries July 1, 2023, through Dec. 31, 2023.
Kitchenware retailer Williams-Sonoma agreed to pay $3.2 million in civil penalties and "stop making false and misleading claims about the origins of its products," settling a lawsuit brought in a California court, DOJ announced. The agency alleged that Williams-Sonoma violated a Federal Trade Commission administrative order barring the company from advertising wholly imported goods and goods containing "significant imported content" as being "Made in the USA" (U.S. v. Williams-Sonoma, N.D. Cal. # 24-02396).
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
The Aluminum Association cheered the Mexican decision to apply tariffs to 544 tariff lines in aluminum and aluminum products. The tariffs are as low as 5% or 10% on some products, but are 25% and 35% on most.
The Commerce Department issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping duty investigations on epoxy resins from China, India, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand (A-570-166, A-533-926, A-580-919, A-583-876, A-549-850), as well as its countervailing duty investigations on epoxy resins from China, India, South Korea and Taiwan (C-570-167, C-533-927, C-580-920, C-583-877). The CVD investigations cover entries for the calendar year 2023. The AD investigations on India, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand cover entries April 1, 2023, through March 31, 2024, and the AD investigation on China covers entries Oct. 1, 2023, through March 31, 2024.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on passenger vehicle and light truck tires from China (A-570-016). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers for subject merchandise entered Aug. 1, 2018, through July 31, 2019.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the following voluntary recalls April 24-25: