The Commerce Department made preliminary affirmative antidumping duty determinations that imports of mattresses from Bosnia and Herzegovina (A-893-002), Bulgaria (A-487-001), Myanmar (formerly Burma) (A-546-001), India (A-533-919), Italy (A-475-845), Kosovo (A-803-001), Mexico (A-201-859), the Philippines (A-565-804), Poland (A-455-807), Slovenia (A-856-002), Spain (A-469-826), and Taiwan (A-583-873). The agency will suspend liquidation and impose AD duty cash requirements on entries of subject merchandise from Bulgaria, India, Kosovo, Mexico, Poland, Slovenia and Spain beginning March 1, when these preliminary determinations were published. Suspension of liquidation and AD duty cash deposit requirements take retroactive effect for Bosnia, Myanmar, Italy, Taiwan and the Philippines beginning Dec. 2, 2023.

The State Department fined Boeing $51 million after the company allegedly violated a range of U.S. export controls, including license requirements for exports to China and Russia. The violations, which Boeing voluntarily disclosed, included illegal exports to foreign employees and contractors working in more than 15 countries; a trade compliance specialist fabricating an export license to illegally ship defense items abroad; and violations of the terms and conditions of other export licenses, among other things.

The Commerce Department announced the opportunity to request administrative reviews by April 1 for producers and exporters subject to 35 antidumping duty orders, 21 countervailing duty orders and two suspended AD/CVD investigations with March anniversary dates.

A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Feb. 28, 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.

Sen. Josh Hawley wants the baseline tariff on cars made by Chinese companies to be 100%, not 2.5%, and to apply whether those cars are assembled in China, Thailand, Brazil, Hungary or Mexico.

The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Feb. 19-25:

A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Feb. 26, 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 Feb. 26 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 EU announced its 13th sanctions package on Russia last week to mark two years since Russia invaded Ukraine, imposing designations against another 194 people and companies while expanding the list of advanced technology items that Russia is seeking for its defense and technology sectors.

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and members of the President’s Export Council will travel to Bangkok March 13-14 to “identify opportunities” to strengthen economic, trade and supply chain ties between the U.S. and Thailand, the Commerce Department announced last week. Raimondo will also use the trip to participate in a hybrid Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity ministerial with IPEF partners, the first such meeting since the negotiations ended on the proposed IPEF Clean Economy Agreement, Fair Economy Agreement and overarching Agreement on IPEF, and also the first since the signing ceremony for the IPEF Supply Chain Agreement in November (see 2402010026).