The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that in automatic five-year sunset reviews scheduled to begin in May it will consider revoking the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from China (A-570-910/C-570-911); glycine from India (A-533-833/C-533-834); and laminated woven sacks from Vietnam (A-552-823/C-552-824). It also will consider revoking the AD orders on glycine from Japan (A-588-878) and Thailand (A-549-837) and silicomanganese from India (A-533-823), Kazakhstan (A-834-807) and Venezuela (A-307-820), as well as the CVD order on glycine from China (C-570-081). These orders will be revoked, or the investigation terminated, unless Commerce finds that revocation would lead to dumping and the International Trade Commission finds that revocation would result in injury to the U.S. industry, Commerce said.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on cast iron soil pipe from China (A-570-079/C-570-080), steel wheels from China (A-570-082/C-570-083) and utility scale wind towers from China (A-570-981/C-570-982). The agencies also will review the AD orders on large residential washers from Mexico (A-201-842) and on utility scale wind towers from Vietnam (A-552-863), Commerce said in a notice April 1.
The Commerce Department announced April 1 the opportunity to request administrative reviews by April 30 for producers and exporters subject to 36 antidumping duty orders and 13 countervailing duty orders with April anniversary dates.
The Commerce Department is finalizing a new exemption for metal safes from its antidumping and countervailing duty orders on metal lockers from China (A-570-133/C-570-134), it said April 1 in the final results of a changed circumstances review. The partial revocation takes effect for entries on or after Dec. 1, 2021.
CBP announced a new Enforce and Protect Act investigation, saying it has reasonable suspicion that VY Industries, a Canada-based company and U.S. distributor, evaded the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on wire coated coil nails from China. The agency said this finding made the enactment of interim measures necessary.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register March 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 is republishing the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on utility scale wind towers from South Korea (A-580-902), after omitting several companies' rates from a final results notice it published March 7.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the following voluntary recalls March 28:
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register March 28 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 intends to end antidumping and countervailing duties on stainless steel flanges made to SAE J518 or ISO 6162 specification, the agency said in the initiation and preliminary results of a changed circumstances review of the AD/CVD orders on stainless steel flanges from China (A-570-064/C-570-065) and India (A-533-877/C-533-878).