The Commerce Department is setting new countervailing duty cash deposit requirements for imports of gas powered pressure washers from China (C-570-149), after finding illegal subsidization of Chinese producers in the preliminary determination of its CV duty investigation. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements generally take effect June 5, but Commerce is making the suspension of liquidation and CV duty cash deposits retroactive to approximately March 7 for some Chinese companies.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the June 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):
A domestic producer and a labor union seek the imposition of new antidumping duties on paper shopping bags from Cambodia, China, Colombia, India, Malaysia, Portugal, Taiwan, Turkey and Vietnam, as well as new countervailing duties on paper shopping bags from China and India, they said in petitions filed with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission May 31. Commerce will now decide whether to begin AD/CVD investigations, which could result in the imposition of permanent AD/CVD orders and the assessment of AD and CVD on importers. The Coalition for Fair Trade in Shopping Bags, consisting of Novolex and the United Steelworkers labor union, filed the petition.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register June 1 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 Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register May 31 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 International Trade Commission published notices in the May 31 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 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 cast iron soil pipe from China (A-570-062/C-570-063), drawn stainless steel sinks from China (A-570-983/C-570-984) and ripe olives from Spain (A-469-817/C-469-818), as well as the antidumping duty orders on low melt polyester staple fiber from South Korea (A-580-895) and Taiwan (A-583-861). These orders will be revoked unless Commerce finds revocation would lead to dumping or a countervailable subsidy and the International Trade Commission finds that revocation would result in injury to U.S. industry, Commerce said.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping duty orders on activated carbon from China (A-570-904); folding gift boxes from China (A-570-866); tin mill products from Japan (A-588-854); and citric acid from Belgium (A-423-813), Colombia (A-301-803) and Thailand (A-549-833), Commerce said in a notice released May 31.
The Commerce Department is beginning an anti-circumvention inquiry into allegations that imports of nonrefillable steel cylinders with a water capacity between 100 and 299 cubic inches are circumventing the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on nonrefillable steel cylinders from China, the agency said in a notice released May 31.
The Commerce Department announced the opportunity to request administrative reviews by June 30 for producers and exporters subject to 38 antidumping duty orders and eight countervailing duty orders with June anniversary dates.