All plaintiffs filed a joint reply to the U.S. May 31 in a case regarding the number of Chinese-origin parts required for an entire wheel to be considered of Chinese origin -- rims, discs, or both -- under an antidumping duty order on steel trailer wheels (Asia Wheel v. U.S., CIT Consol. # 23-00096).
The Commerce Department on June 4 published its quarterly list of (i) completed antidumping and countervailing duty scope rulings and (ii) anti-circumvention determinations. The following list covers completed scope rulings for the period Oct. 1, 2023, through Dec. 31, 2023:
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
The U.S. on May 31 opposed U.S. manufacturer Deer Park Glycine's bid to complete the record in a scope ruling case on calcium glycinate by including a scope ruling application from a separate proceeding. The government said a scope ruling application wasn't submitted during "this segment of the administrative proceeding" being challenged at the Court of International Trade, and the Commerce Department didn't "rely on it in reaching its determination not to initiate another scope inquiry regarding a product that had just been the subject of a final scope ruling" (Deer Park Glycine v. United States, CIT # 24-00016).
World Trade Organization members last week agreed on chairpersons for 13 of the body's subsidiary committees for 2024, the WTO announced:
World Trade Organization members last week agreed on chairpersons for 13 of the body's subsidiary committees for 2024, the WTO announced:
The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that in automatic five-year sunset reviews scheduled to begin in July it will consider revoking 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); and steel wire garment hangers from China (A-570-918). These orders will be revoked, or the investigation terminated, unless Commerce finds that revocation would lead to dumping and the International Trade Commission finds that revocation would result in injury to the U.S. industry, Commerce said.
An antidumping duty order on carbon steel butt-weld pipe didn’t cover an exporter’s “rough” pipe fittings, the U.S. and the exporter said, which are distinguished from “unfinished” pipe fittings that would be subject to the order (NORCA Industrial Company, LLC v. U.S., CIT Consol. # 23-00231).
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website May 29, 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 May 29 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):