The Commerce Department is ending an anti-circumvention inquiry it began in December on whether boltless steel shelving made in Malaysia from Chinese components should be subject to antidumping and countervailing duties on boltless steel shelving from China (A-570-018/C-570-019) (see 2212090034), the agency said in a notice released May 9. Edsal Manufacturing, the domestic producer that had requested the inquiry, has withdrawn its petition, Commerce said.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the May 8 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 has released the final results of the countervailing duty administrative review on hot-rolled steel flat products from South Korea (C-580-884). Commerce assigned the two companies under review, Hyundai Steel Company and POSCO, a CVD rate of zero percent, unchanged from the preliminary results. Commerce will not assess CV duties on Hyundai Steel and POSCO entered Jan. 1, 2020, through Dec. 31, 2020, and future entries from those companies will not be subject to CV cash deposit requirements until further notice. The new zero percent CVD cash deposit rate takes effect for entries from Hyundai Steel and POSCO on or after May 9, the date these final results are to be published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register May 8 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 began administrative reviews for certain firms subject to antidumping and countervailing duty orders with March anniversary dates, it said in a notice released May 8. Producers and exporters subject to any of these administrative reviews on China or Vietnam must submit their separate rate certifications or applications by June 8 in order to avoid being assigned high China-wide or Vietnam-wide rates.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the May 5 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 International Trade Commission on May 2 began a formal Section 337 investigation on certain Wi-Fi routers and devices (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1361), it said in a Federal Register notice. The investigation is in response to an April 3 complaint by Netgear, which sought a limited exclusion order barring entry of wireless routers, networking devices, mesh network devices, and components manufactured or imported by Chinese company TP-Link Technologies and its U.S. subsidiaries. The complaint alleged that TP-Link infringes on six of Netgear's patents covering multiband spectrum allocation and dedicated backhaul systems for home wireless internet coverage (see 2304060006).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register May 5 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 has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on activated carbon from China (A-570-904). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise from the companies under review entered April 2021 through March 2022.
The Commerce Department has released amended final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on hot-rolled steel flat products from South Korea (A-580-883), to make ministerial changes to the margin calculation for Hyundai Steel used in the final results published April 20. The original margin calculation of 0.88% is amended to 0.84%. This change means the AD rate for non-individually examined companies also changes to 0.84%.