House Republican conservatives want to end Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China and have introduced a bill that urges the U.S. trade representative to negotiate free trade agreements with Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, New Zealand, and the U.K. so that importers can have alternatives to Chinese suppliers at a lower cost.
The Court of International Trade on March 1 rejected importer Diamond Tools Technology's request for attorney fees in its suit challenging CBP's finding that the company evaded the antidumping duty order on diamond sawblades from China. Judge Timothy Reif said that since the case presented two issues of "first impression," the government's position was "substantially justified."
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):