The Commerce Department preliminarily found that imports of the hydrofluorocarbon blend R-410B from Mexico, made using the Chinese HFC components R-32 and R-125 and exported to the U.S. for processing into the HFC blend R-410A, aren't circumventing antidumping duties on HFC blends from China (A-570-028). As a result, Commerce won't suspend liquidation or require AD cash deposits on such imports at this time, it said in a July 2 notice. Commerce may still find circumvention in the final results of its anti-circumvention inquiry.
The Commerce Department is setting new countervailing duty cash deposit requirements for imports of paper plates from China (C-570-165) and Vietnam (C-552-840), after finding countervailable subsidization of producers and exporters in the two countries in the preliminary determinations of its CV duty investigations. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements would generally take effect for entries on or after July 1, the date that the preliminary determinations were published in the Federal Register, but Commerce is making the suspension of liquidation and CV duty cash deposits retroactive to approximately April 2 for most Chinese and Vietnamese companies.
On July 1, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the weeks of June 10-16, 17-23 and 24-30:
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website July 1, 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.
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Changes to the USMCA rules of origin (ROOs) have "had a positive economic impact on the U.S. and North American auto industry, although with some challenges in implementation and new challenges emerging," according to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. The USTR report to Congress, mandated by Congress when NAFTA was rewritten, noted that carmakers "are still adjusting to the full scope of USMCA’s autos rules," with 13 entities given extended time to meet the stricter rules, at least for some models.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the July 1 Federal Register on the following AD/CVD injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register July 1 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):