Canada this week launched a 30-day consultation period as it decides whether to impose additional duties or take other measures against Chinese electronic vehicle imports. The consultations, which began July 2 and will run through Aug. 1, “seek views on potential policy responses,” Canada said, including new tariffs on a range of battery, plug-in hybrid and fuel cell electric vehicles.
The Commerce Department began administrative reviews for certain firms subject to antidumping and countervailing duty orders with May anniversary dates. Producers and exporters subject to any of these administrative reviews on China or Vietnam must submit their separate rate certifications or applications on or about Aug. 5 to avoid being assigned high China-wide or Vietnam-wide rates.
The Commerce Department issued its final determination in its countervailing duty investigation on pea protein from China (C-570-155). Suspension of liquidation is currently not in effect for entries on or after April 16, 2024, and Commerce will require cash deposits of estimated CV duties on future entries only if it issues a CV duty order.
The Commerce Department has released its final determination in the antidumping duty investigation on pea protein from China (A-570-154). Cash deposit rates set in this final determination take effect July 5.
The U.K. must reassess whether it should investigate cotton imports from China suspected of being made with forced labor after an appellate court ruled last month that the country’s National Crime Agency wrongly decided against opening the probe.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website July 2, 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.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register July 2 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 and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on hot-rolled carbon steel flat products from India (A-533-820/C-570-821), Indonesia (A-560-812/C-560-813) and Thailand (A-549-817/C-549-818); laminated woven sacks from China (A-570-916/C-570-917); sodium nitrite from China (A-570-925/C-570-926); and steel propane cylinders from China (A-570-086/C-570-087); as well as the antidumping duty orders on hot-rolled carbon steel flat products from China (A-570-865), Taiwan (A-583-835) and Ukraine (A-823-811); persulfates from China (A-570-847); sodium nitrite from Germany (A-428-851); steel propane cylinders from Thailand (A-549-839); steel wire garment hangers from China (A-570-918); and stilbenic optical brightening agents from China (A-570-972) and Taiwan (A-583-848), Commerce said in a notice July 1.
The Commerce Department issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on vanillin from China (A-570-172/C-570-173). The CVD investigation covers entries Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2023. The AD investigation covers entries Oct. 1, 2023 - March 31, 2024.