Comments to the International Trade Commission are due May 9 in a potential Section 337 case concerning imported tourniquets. Complainants Composite Resources Inc. (CRI), a South Carolina-based manufacturer, and North American Rescue (NAR), a medical supply distributor, have asked the ITC to consider a general exclusion order against all imported blood flow restriction devices with rotatable windlasses.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on stainless steel flanges from China (A-570-064/C-570-065) and India (A-533-877/C-533-878), as well as the antidumping duty order on silicon metal from China (A-570-806), Commerce said in a notice released April 28.
The Commerce Department will soon impose antidumping duty cash deposit requirements on imports of freight rail couplers from Mexico, it said in a fact sheet issued April 27 announcing its preliminary determination in the AD investigation. Commerce set an AD rate of 47.82% for all Mexican exporters, it said. AD suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after the date of publication of the preliminary determinations in the Federal Register, which should occur in the coming days. Commerce already suspended liquidation and began requiring cash deposits in concurrent antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on freight rail couplers from Mexico (see 2303020035 and 2303100057).
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website April 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.
A domestic producer filed petitions March 30 with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission requesting new antidumping duties on boltless steel shelving prepackaged for sale from India, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. Commerce will now decide whether to begin AD investigations. Edsal Manufacturing requested the investigations.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the April 26 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 published notices in the Federal Register April 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 Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register April 24 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 April 21 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 the final results of its antidumping duty administrative review on pure magnesium from China (A-570-832). The agency said it continues to find that the only companies under review, Tianjin Magnesium International, Co., Ltd., and Tianjin Magnesium Metal, Co., Ltd. (collectively TMI/TMM) had no shipments of subject merchandise to the U.S. during the period of review, May 1, 2021, through April 30, 2022. Therefore, subject merchandise from these two companies will continue to enter at AD rates set in the most recent previous review, and any entries filed with TMI's or TMM's case number entered May 1, 2021, through April 30, 2022, will be liquidated at the China-wide rate of 111.73%.