A domestic producer of boltless steel shelving units brought a complaint to the Court of International Trade on July 11 arguing that the Commerce Department had wrongly refused to use the surrogate it suggested in an antidumping duty investigation (Edsal Manufacturing Co. v. U.S., CIT # 24-00108).
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The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of July 1-7:
No lawsuits were recently filed at the Court of International Trade.
The president of a quartz surface products (QSP) distributor named in CBP’s investigation into whether four U.S. importers evaded antidumping and countervailing duties defended his company from any alleged wrongdoing.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells from China (A-570-979). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered Dec. 1, 2021, through Nov. 30, 2022.
The EU on July 1 launched an antidumping investigation on imports of epoxy resins from China, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand after receiving a complaint from a group of epoxy resin producers. The European Commission said it will investigate certain products “containing more than 35% by weight of epoxy resins, with certain exclusions, and it expects to conclude the investigation within one year. The epoxy resin producers, comprised of Olin Corp., Westlake Corp. and Spolchemie, said exporters from the four countries are “selling their products on the EU market at unfairly low prices that significantly undercut the prices of European producers.”
CBP is taking action against US Atlanta International, Global Source & Supply, Cosmos Granite (East) Marble and Cosmos Granite (West) over allegedly evading antidumping and countervailing duties on quartz surface products (QSP) from China.
Even though two jacket styles produced by manufacturer and supplier Youngone El Salvador met the tariff shift requirement of the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR), the jackets still aren't eligible for preferential tariff treatment because the visible lining was formed and finished in a country outside of member countries with the CAFTA-DR, CBP ruled recently.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website July 3, 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.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register July 3 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):