The World Trade Organization's published agenda for the Dispute Settlement Body's May 24 meeting includes U.S. status reports on the implementation of DSB recommendations on: antidumping measures on certain hot-rolled steel products from Japan; antidumping and countervailing measures on large residential washers from South Korea; certain methodologies and their application to antidumping proceedings involving China; and Section 110(5) of the U.S. Copyright Act. Status reports also are expected from Indonesia on measures related to the import of horticultural products, animals and animal products; from the EU on measures affecting the approval and marketing of biotech products; and from China on AD measures on stainless steel products from Japan.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 17 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Aluminum composite panels with thermoplastic cores imported by K-Tex are subject to antidumping and countervailing duty orders on common alloy aluminum sheet from China, the Commerce Department said in an April 29 scope ruling.
Aluminum capacitor foil imported by Instrument Transformers is covered by antidumping and countervailing duty orders on aluminum foil from China, the Commerce Department said in an April 29 scope ruling.
The following lawsuit was recently filed at the Court of International Trade:
A Chinese exporter of passenger vehicle and light truck tires said in a May 14 complaint that the Commerce Department repeatedly made a mathematical error in an antidumping duty review by constructing input freight shipment cost without considering distance (Giti Tire Global Trading PTE. LTD. v. U.S., CIT # 24-00083).
The Court of International Trade on May 16 said that the Commerce Department lawfully excluded imports from non-market economy and export-subsidizing countries from the datasets it used when calculating input cost of production and market price under the major input and transactions disregarded rules.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 16 on AD/CVD proceedings:
An Indian frozen shrimp exporter responded May 14 to opposition (see 2404160042) against its motion for judgment (see 2402080060) in a case regarding the results of an antidumping duty review, saying that the Commerce Department and petitioners had focused on the wrong arguments and failed to address key evidence (Ad Hoc Shrimp Trade Action Committee v U.S., CIT Consol. # 23-00202).
A pair of exporters shouldn't be allowed to pluck "a few words out of context without examining the full language of that scope" in their challenge to a Commerce Department ruling that steel truck wheels made in Thailand with either Chinese-origin rims or discs are subject to the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on steel wheels from China (Asia Wheel Co. v. United States, CIT Consol. # 23-00143).