The International Trade Administration continued to find dumped imports in its final antidumping duty determination on circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from the United Arab Emirates (A-520-805). AD rates rose slightly from the preliminary determination for most companies. If the International Trade Commission finds injury to U.S. industry, the ITA will issue an AD duty order. The ITA’s final determination is effective Oct. 22.

The International Trade Administration found no countervailable subsidies for exporters of circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from Vietnam (C-533-853) in its final determination, and so will refund CV cash deposits and release CV duty bonds that were posted following the ITA’s March 30 preliminary determination. The preliminary determination had found CV rates of zero to 8.06 percent for exporters of subject merchandise. As a result of this negative final determination, the ITA is terminating this CV duty investigation.

The International Trade Administration continued to find dumped imports in its final antidumping duty determination on circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from Vietnam (A-552-811). AD rates rose slightly from the preliminary determination for most companies. If the International Trade Commission finds injury to U.S. industry, the ITA will issue an AD duty order. The ITA’s final determination is effective Oct. 22.

The International Trade Administration initiated investigations of antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of hardwood and decorative plywood from China, it said in a fact sheet issued Oct. 18. According to the fact sheet, the International Trade Commission is set to make its preliminary injury determination by Nov. 13. Only if the ITC finds injury will the investigations continue. ITT will provide more details upon publication of the initiation notice in the Federal Register.

The International Trade Commission is publishing notices in the Oct. 18 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 International Trade Commission voted to institute an investigation of certain integrated circuit chips and products containing them. The products at issue in this investigation are generally integrated circuit chips contained in hard disk drives, solid state drives, high-speed communications systems and interfaces, computer servers, data storage systems, controller boards and personal computers.

The International Trade Administration published notices in the Oct. 18 Federal Register on the following AD/CV 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 International Trade Commission voted to institute an investigation of certain devices with secure communication capabilities, components thereof, and products containing the same (337-TA-858). The products at issue in this investigation are devices with secure communication applications.

The International Trade Administration published notices in the Oct. 17 Federal Register on the following AD/CV 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 International Trade Administration issued the final results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on glycine from China (A-570-836) for Chinese exporter Baoding Mantong Fine Chemistry Co., Ltd. Despite calculating a zero AD rate for Baoding in the preliminary results of this review, the ITA assigned Mantong a final AD rate of 453.79 percent after correcting a currency error in data used to calculate surrogate values. The ITA had used Indonesian import data valued in Indian rupees instead of the Indonesian rupiah. This rate, which is effective Oct. 18, is expected to be implemented by CBP soon.