The Commerce Department is extending until Sept. 23 the deadline for its preliminary determinations in the countervailing duty investigations on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into modules, from Cambodia (C-555-004), Malaysia (C-557/831), Thailand (C-549-852) and Vietnam (C-552-842), it said in a notice July 3. The preliminary determination had been due by July 18 (see 2405170026). The agency decided to postpone after the petitioner that requested the investigation, the American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing Trade Committee, asked for an extension. Cash deposits of estimated CV duties can be collected only after the preliminary determination, although cash deposits can be made retroactive 90 days from the preliminary determination if Commerce finds “critical circumstances.”

Exporter Sahamitr Pressure Container will appeal a May Court of International Trade decision sustaining the Commerce Department's recalculation of exporter Sahamitr's sales expenses in the 2019-20 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on steel propane cylinders from Thailand (see 2405020029). The court said that Sahamitr failed to undermine Commerce's finding that the company's monthly-based calculation of its sales costs were distortive. The exporter said on July 1 that it will take the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Sahamitr Pressure Container v. U.S., CIT # 22-00107).

Tire importer ZC Rubber America told the Court of International Trade on July 2 that the government and petitioner Accuride Corp. failed to defend the Commerce Department's "substantial transformation" analysis regarding steel truck wheels made in Thailand with either Chinese-origin rims or discs (Asia Wheel Co. v. United States, CIT # 23-00143).

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on hot-rolled carbon steel flat products from India (A-533-820/C-570-821), Indonesia (A-560-812/C-560-813) and Thailand (A-549-817/C-549-818); laminated woven sacks from China (A-570-916/C-570-917); sodium nitrite from China (A-570-925/C-570-926); and steel propane cylinders from China (A-570-086/C-570-087); as well as the antidumping duty orders on hot-rolled carbon steel flat products from China (A-570-865), Taiwan (A-583-835) and Ukraine (A-823-811); persulfates from China (A-570-847); sodium nitrite from Germany (A-428-851); steel propane cylinders from Thailand (A-549-839); steel wire garment hangers from China (A-570-918); and stilbenic optical brightening agents from China (A-570-972) and Taiwan (A-583-848), Commerce said in a notice July 1.

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.

The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the weeks of June 10-16, 17-23 and 24-30:

Refraining from joining exporters’ June 13 submission to the Court of International Trade (see 2406140059), a plaintiff-intervenor importer filed its own motion for judgment making similar arguments against Commerce’s finding that Thai solar panel exporters had circumvented an antidumping duty order on solar panels from China (Canadian Solar International Limited v. U.S., CIT # 23-00222).

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 and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices July 1 on AD/CVD proceedings:

The International Trade Commission published notices in the June 28 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):