A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Sept. 17, 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.
In the Sept. 11 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 36), CBP published a proposal to revoke ruling letters concerning sauces, and certain laminated fabrics and polyurethane-coated weft knit fabric materials from China.
As the House Ways and Means Committee discusses moving toward a proposal closer to the Senate Finance Committee chairman's bill to restrict de minimis, the top Republican on the Finance Committee is not publicly opposing the core ideas of that bill -- removing apparel and footwear from eligibility from all countries, and not allowing goods subject to Section 301 tariffs to enter duty-free.
Economists at the Peterson Institute for International Economics said that if the U.S. were to move all Chinese imports into Column 2 of the tariff schedule, removing permanent normal trade relations status, it would increase inflation by four-tenths of a percent if China were to retaliate, and it would hurt manufacturing the most -- the area politicians most want to protect.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Sept. 17 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 cased pencils from China (A-570-827) for the period of review Dec. 1, 2022, though Nov. 30, 2023, because there were no reviewable, suspended entries of subject merchandise for three companies for which the reviews had been requested -- (1) Shandong Wah Yuen Stationery Co. Ltd.; Wah Yuen Stationery Co. Ltd.; (2) Tianjin Tonghe Stationery Co., Ltd.; and (3) Ningbo Homey Union Co., Ltd. -- during the review period. Also, a request for review of itself and a request for review of 14 other companies by Aloha Pencil Co. were voided by Commerce because the agency determined Aloha was not a bona fide producer, manufacturer, or wholesaler of a domestic like product during the review period, therefore was not a domestic interested party and unqualified to make a request. 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 has published the preliminary results of its antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from China (A-570-914/C-570-915). The agency preliminarily found that the Vietnamese company Hoa Phat Steel Pipe Company Limited had no shipments of subject merchandise during the AD and CVD review periods, which are Aug. 1, 2022, through July 31, 2023, and Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022, respectively.
The Commerce Department published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on wood mouldings and millworks products from China (A-570-117). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered Feb. 1, 2022, through Jan. 31, 2023.
Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., recently introduced The Market Economy Sourcing Act, which would impose restrictions on goods covered by free trade agreement benefits, so that nonqualifying content also would be scrutinized.
China-dependent supply chains developed because of the demands of retailers to sell products at low price points, a panelist explained at the Commerce Department's first supply chain summit, but the company is working to change that.