The Commerce Department rescinded an antidumping new shipper review on frozen fish fillets from Vietnam (A-552-801) for Ngoc Ha Co. Ltd. Food Processing and Trading. Ngoc Ha withdrew its request for the new shipper review, the agency said. As a result, their temporary AD duty bonding option is being discontinued. Commerce will direct CBP to continue to suspend liquidation and collect cash deposits at $2.11/kg for merchandise produced and exported by Ngoc Ha until CBP receives instructions on ongoing administrative review of frozen fish fillets from Vietnam for the period Aug. 1, 2012 through July 31, 2013.

The antidumping duty investigation on welded stainless steel pressure pipe from Malaysia (A-557-815), Thailand (A-549-830) and Vietnam (A-552-816) will continue, after the International Trade Commission unanimously voted June 28 that subject imports are likely injuring U.S. industry. The investigations, initiated in June (see 13061124, would have ended if not for the ITC’s preliminary affirmative injury determination. The Commerce Department’s preliminary antidumping duty determinations are now due in October.

The Commerce Department issued the final results of four antidumping duty new shipper reviews on frozen fish fillets from Vietnam (A-552-801). Changes to the preliminary results of each review brought all four respondents' AD rates above zero. The new rates are effective July 2, and will be implemented by CBP soon.

Aquapharm Chemicals Pvt., Ltd. will no longer be subject to the antidumping duty order on 1-hydroxyethylidene-1, 1-diphosphonic acid from India (A-533-846), after the Commerce Department partially revoked for the company in the final results of an administrative review. The agency made no changes from the preliminary results, continuing to assign Aquapharm, the only company under review, its third consecutive zero AD rate. Revocation for the company is effective April 1, 2012. Commerce will instruct CBP to liquidate entries during the period of review without regard to AD duties. Entries made after April 1, 2012 will no longer be subject to a cash deposit requirement and AD duty liability in connection with the HEDP AD duty order. Cash deposits for entries made after April 1, 2012 will be refunded, Commerce said.

Three domestic steel threaded rod producers filed petitions June 27 requesting the imposition of antidumping duties on imports of steel threaded rod from Thailand (A-533-855), and both antidumping and countervailing duties on steel threaded rod from India (A-549-831 / C-533-856). All-America Threaded Products, Bay Standard Manufacturing, and Vulcan Threaded Products allege that rapidly growing imports of steel threaded rod from Thailand and India are underselling U.S. industry, and pushing out domestic producers.

The International Trade Commission is publishing notices in the July 1 Federal Register on the following AD/CV injury, Section 337 patent, and other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will appear in another ITT article):

The Commerce Department published notices in the July 1 Federal Register 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 notices in the June 28 Federal Register 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 Court of International Trade sustained the rescission of a new shipper review on fresh garlic from China for Zhengzhou Huachao Industrial, agreeing with Commerce’s determination that the company’s sale under review wasn’t commercial in nature. The high price, low quantity, and unusual circumstances of the sale meant it wasn’t bona fide, and couldn’t form the basis for a separate antidumping duty rate, Commerce had said. In the face of Zhengzhou Huachao’s challenge, the court found each of Commerce’s findings reasonable.

The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that it and the International Trade Commission will consider revoking the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on new pneumatic off-the-road tires from China (A-570-912 / C-570-913), and raw flexible magnets form China and Taiwan (A-570-922 / C-570-923, A-583-842), in their automatic five-year sunset reviews scheduled to begin in August. Advance notice is given because automatic sunset reviews have short deadlines. An order will be revoked unless Commerce finds that revocation would lead to a continuation or recurrence of dumping and the ITC finds that revocation would result in continuation or recurrence of material injury to a U.S. industry. As a result, a negative determination by either Commerce or the ITC would result in the revocation of these orders.