A domestic producer recently filed a petition with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission requesting antidumping and countervailing duties be imposed on chromic acid imported from Turkey and India. Commerce now will decide whether to begin AD/CVD investigations, which could result in the imposition of permanent AD/CVD orders and the assessment of AD and CVD on importers. American Chrome & Chemicals, Inc. requested the investigation.

The Commerce Department said it's rescinding the administrative review of the countervailing duty order on steel concrete reinforcing bar from Turkey (C-489-830) for the period of review Jan. 1, 2024, through Dec. 31, 2024, because there were no reviewable, suspended entries of subject merchandise during the review period for Habas Sinai ve Tibbi Gazlar Istihsal Endustrisi A.S, the only company for which the review was requested. The cash deposit rates won't change, and the current cash deposit requirements will remain in effect until further notice. Because the review has been rescinded in its entirety, the entries to which this administrative review pertained will be assessed CVD at rates equal to the cash deposit of estimated CVD required at the time of entry, or withdrawal from warehouse, for consumption, Commerce said.

The Commerce Department intends to create another new exemption for off-grid panels from antidumping and countervailing duties on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into modules, from China (A-570-979/C-570-980), it said in the preliminary results of a changed circumstances review Sept. 30. Commerce said “substantially all” U.S. producers of solar cells don't oppose Nextracker's request to create the exemption. Should Commerce finalize this determination in its final results, it will exempt the following products from the scope of AD/CVD on solar cells:

The Commerce Department made preliminary affirmative antidumping duty determinations that imports of silicon metal from Angola (A-762-001) and Laos (A-553-001) are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The agency has imposed AD cash deposit requirements on entries of subject merchandise beginning Sept. 30.

The Commerce Department issued its final determinations in its countervailing duty investigations on thermoformed molded fiber products from China (C-570-183) and Vietnam (C-552-846), after finding countervailable subsidization of producers and exporters in the two countries in the preliminary determinations of its CVD investigations.

The Commerce Department made final affirmative antidumping duty determinations that imports of thermoformed molded fiber products from China (A-570-182) and Vietnam (A-552-845) are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will continue for entries on or after May 12, the date that the preliminary determinations were published in the Federal Register. Cash deposit rates set in these final determinations take effect Sept. 30.

The International Trade Commission began a Section 337 investigation on allegations that Sony, TCL Industries Holdings and their subsidiaries are importing and selling smart television sets that infringe patents held by Cerence Operating Company (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1461), it said in a notice to be published Sept. 30.

The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Sept. 26-29 on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CVD rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):

The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on raw honey from Brazil (A-351-857). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise from the 14 companies remaining under review entered June 1, 2023, through May 31, 2024.

The Commerce Department is amending the final results of an antidumping duty administrative review on multilayered wood flooring from China (A-570-970) based on the final decision in a Court of International Trade case challenging those final results.