The Commerce Department is set to begin administrative reviews for certain firms subject to antidumping and countervailing duty orders with September anniversary dates. Producers and exporters subject to administrative reviews on products from China or Vietnam must submit their separate rate certifications or applications on or about Dec. 5 in order to avoid being assigned high China-wide or Vietnam-wide rates.
The Commerce Department on Nov. 2 released an antidumping duty order on sodium nitrite from Russia (A-821-836). The order sets permanent antidumping duties, which will remain in place unless revoked by Commerce in a sunset or changed circumstances review. Commerce will now begin conducting annual administrative reviews, if requested, to determine final assessments of AD duties on importers and make changes to cash deposit rates.
The Commerce Department made preliminary affirmative antidumping determinations that preserved mushrooms from Poland (A-455-806), Spain (A-469-825) and the Netherlands (A-821-815) are being sold at less than fair value. The agency will impose AD duty cash requirements on entries of subject merchandise beginning on Nov. 3, the scheduled publication date of these preliminary determinations in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department made a preliminary affirmative antidumping determination that white grape juice concentrate from Argentina (A-357-825) is being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The agency will impose antidumping duty cash requirements on entries of subject merchandise beginning Nov. 3, the date this preliminary determination is due to be published in the Federal Register.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Nov. 1 Federal Register on the following AD/CV 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 Nov. 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 on Nov. 1 released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on hot-rolled steel flat products from Japan (A-588-874). Rates calculated in this review will be used to set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise from two producers and exporters that was entered October 2020 through September 2021.
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices Oct. 31:
The Commerce Department will soon begin requiring antidumping duty cash deposits on imports of white grape juice concentrate from Argentina, it said in a fact sheet released Oct. 28. Cash deposit requirements will begin on the date Commerce publishes its preliminary determination in the Federal Register, with rates set at 8.5% to 23.77%, as adjusted for CV duties already in place (see 2209020035). International Trade Today will have more details when Commerce publishes its preliminary determination.
The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that in automatic five-year sunset reviews scheduled to begin in December it will consider revoking the antidumping duty orders on carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod from Belarus, South Korea, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates and the U.K. (A-822-806, A-580-891, A-821-824, A-791-823, A-469-816, A-823-816, A-520-808, A-412-826) and tool chests and cabinets from Vietnam (A-552-821), as well as the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on biodiesel from Argentina and Indonesia (A-357-820/C-357-821, A-560-830/C-560-831), carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod from Italy and Turkey (A-475-836/C-475-837, A-489-831/C-489-832), softwood lumber from Canada (A-122-857/C-122-858), hardwood plywood from China (A-570-051/C-570-052), multilayered wood flooring from China (A-570-970/C-570-971) and tool chests and cabinets from China (A-570-056/C-570-057). These orders will be revoked unless Commerce finds that revocation would lead to dumping and the International Trade Commission finds that revocation would result in injury to U.S. industry, Commerce said.