A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website April 25, 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.
Perkins Coie partner Michael House told an audience of automotive supply chain professionals that this fiscal year has seen not only a sharp increase in the number of detentions, "but even more important, in our view, is the scope of products being detained has diversified, and there's been a steady increase in detentions of merchandise that were outside those original so-called priority sectors."
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register April 25 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 International Trade Commission is beginning a Section 337 investigation on allegations from US Conec that Senko and its affiliates are importing fiber-optic connectors, adapters, jump cables, patch cords and related products that infringe on its patents, the ITC said in a notice released April 25. In the investigation, the ITC will consider whether to issue a general exclusion order banning imports of infringing merchandise from all sources, as well as cease and desist orders against the following companies:
Correction: A group of U.S. solar module producers is seeking new antidumping and countervailing duty orders on solar cells and modules from the same four Southeast Asian countries that Commerce recently found were circumventing AD/CVD on solar cells from China (see 2404240071). The petitions said there is currently no active production in the U.S. of solar cells.
The Commerce Department is beginning new antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) from China and India, it said in a fact sheet April 24. The underlying petition was filed in March (see 2403190048). The International Trade Commission is scheduled to make its preliminary injury determinations by May 20. These AD/CVD investigations will continue only if the ITC finds injury. International Trade Today will provide more details upon publication of the initiation notices in the Federal Register.
On April 24, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
In its annual report on how foreign countries honor intellectual property protections, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said Argentina, China, India, Indonesia, Chile, Russia and Venezuela still belong on the list of the worst offenders. Ukraine, which had once been in that group, is not being evaluated because of its invasion by Russia.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website April 24, 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.
If the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative decides that China's subsidies to its shipbuilding industry burden U.S. commerce through a range of unreasonable or discriminatory acts, a coalition of unions suggests it impose a fee on Chinese ships arriving at U.S. ports (see 2404170029). During a Washington International Trade Association webinar on the new Section 301 investigation, former USTR associate general counsel David Ross said China's subsidies are evident but the remedy is not.