The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Aug. 9 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 published the preliminary results of its countervailing duty administrative review on certain collated steel staples from China (C-570-113). The agency preliminarily calculated a new CV duty rate for the Tianjin Hweschun Fasteners Manufacturing Co. Ltd., the company selected for individual examination. The final results of this review will be used to set CV duty assessments on importers for subject merchandise entered during the calendar year of 2022.
CBP has released its Aug. 7 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 31), which includes the following ruling actions:
The U.S. Navy is trying to help commercial cargo ships maintain the alternative trade routes companies have found as the U.S. works to end Houthi attacks on ships transiting the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, Vice Admiral George Wikoff said. And although the U.S. has used sanctions to target several Iran-backed networks helping to supply the Houthis, he said the U.S.-designated terror group is increasingly diversifying its suppliers and is becoming a legitimate technology exporter.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Aug. 8 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 has published the preliminary results of its antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on quartz surface products from China (A-570-084/C-570-085). Commerce said it preliminarily determined that certain Malaysian exporters of certain quartz surface products continue to be ineligible to participate in the scope certification process established for the AD and CVD orders on quartz surface products from China for all imports of quartz surface products from Malaysia. Specifically, it said it finds "that these Malaysian exporters did not demonstrate that the quartz slab used to produce their exports" to the U.S. was sourced from "a country other than China."
The Commerce Department is beginning new antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on tungsten shot from China, it said in a fact sheet Aug. 7. The underlying petition was filed in July (see 2407160029). The International Trade Commission is scheduled to make its preliminary injury determinations by Aug. 26. 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.
The Commerce Department made preliminary affirmative antidumping duty determinations that imports of glass wine bottles from Chile (A-337-808), China (A-570-162) and Mexico (A-588-862) are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The agency will impose AD cash deposit requirements retroactively on some entries of subject merchandise from China beginning May 11, 2024. For the other Chinese exporters, as well as all exporters in Chile and Mexico, AD suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements take effect Aug. 9, 2024.
DHS has added five more entries to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List, bringing the total up to 73 entities flagged by U.S. officials for allegedly using forced labor by Uyghurs and other religious and ethnic minority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Aug. 7 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):