The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that in automatic five-year sunset reviews scheduled to begin in November it will consider revoking the antidumping duty and countervailing orders on aluminum wire and cable from China (A-570-095/C-570-096); carbon and alloy steel threaded rod from China (A-570-104/C-570-105) and India (A-533-887/C-533-888); vertical metal file cabinets from China (A-570-110/C-570-111); and welded stainless steel pressure pipe from China (A-570-930/C-570-931). It also will consider revoking the antidumping duty orders on acetone from Belgium (A-423-814), South Korea (A-580-899), Singapore (A-559-808), South Africa (A-791-824) and Spain (A-469-819); carbon and alloy steel threaded rod from Taiwan (A-583-865) and Thailand (A-549-840); malleable iron pipe fittings from China (A-570-881); mattresses from China (A-570-092); steel nails from China (A-570-909); and welded stainless steel pressure pipe from Malaysia (A-557-815), Thailand (A-549-830) and Vietnam (A-552-816). These orders will be revoked unless Commerce finds that revocation would lead to dumping and the International Trade Commission finds that revocation would result in injury to U.S. industry, Commerce said.
The Commerce Department has released its final determinations in the antidumping duty investigations on aluminum lithographic printing plates from China (A-570-156) and Japan (A-588-881). Cash deposit rates set in this final determination took effect Sept. 27.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Sept. 27, 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.
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, in responses to Senate Finance Committee members, talked about changes needed in USMCA, declined to endorse a permanent e-commerce tariff moratorium and called for more money for CBP, to address Section 301 tariff circumvention.
With de minimis imports to the EU climbing to about $8.5 billion worth of goods from January to August this year, the European Commission is considering either changing its de minimis threshold or tackling the surge of Chinese exports in this channel in another way, the South China Morning Post reported from Brussels. That value of de minimis imports increased 61% compared with two years earlier, the newspaper said.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Sept. 27 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 said it's rescinding the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on stilbenic optical brightening agents from China (A-570-972) for the period of review May 1, 2023, though April 30, 2024, because there were no reviewable, suspended entries of subject merchandise for five companies for which the reviews had been requested -- 1) Beijing Odyssey Chemical Ind. Co. Ltd, 2) Hebei Dianchang Chemicals Co. Ltd., 3) Jinan Subang Fine Chemical Co., Ltd., 4) Zhejiang Hongda Chemicals Co., Ltd., and 5) Zhejiang Transfar Whyyon Chemical Co., Ltd. -- during the review period. Commerce will instruct CBP to assess AD on all appropriate entries, at rates equal to the cash deposit of estimated AD required at the time of entry, or withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption, it said.
The Commerce Department issued its final determination in its countervailing duty investigation on aluminum lithographic printing plates from China (C-570-157). Suspension of liquidation is currently not in effect for entries on or after June 29, 2024, and Commerce will require cash deposits of estimated CV duties on future entries only if it issues a CV duty order.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the following voluntary recalls Sept. 26:
A hearing about the Time to Choose Act, a bipartisan bill that would ban consultants and other service providers from working both with the U.S. government and Chinese-owned companies, Senate Homeland Security Committee ranking member Rand Paul, R-Ky., said he agreed with a witness who said it could create a slippery slope.