The Commerce Department is amending the final results of a countervailing duty administrative review on certain hot-rolled steel flat products from South Korea (C-580-884) to correct a duty calculation for Hyundai Steel Company. In the final results of that review, covering calendar year 2017, Commerce assigned to Hyundai Steel Company, the mandatory respondent, a CV duty cash deposit rate of 0.51%.
The Commerce Department announced the opportunity to request administrative reviews by Oct. 31 for producers and exporters subject to 23 antidumping duty orders, six countervailing duty orders and two suspension agreements with October anniversary dates, in a Federal Register notice.
A U.S. producer coalition seeks the imposition of new antidumping duties on freight rail couplers from China and Mexico and countervailing duties on the same product from China, it said in petitions filed Sept. 28 with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission. 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/CVD on importers. The investigations were requested by the Coalition of Freight Coupler Producers.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping duty orders on stilbenic optical brightening agents from China (A-570-972) and Taiwan (A-583-848); fresh garlic from China (A-570-831); large diameter carbon and alloy seamless standard, line and pressure pipe from Japan (A-588-850); and small diameter carbon and alloy seamless standard, line and pressure pipe from Japan (A-588-851) and Romania (A-485-805), Commerce said in a notice released Sept. 30.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Sept. 29 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 will order suspension of liquidation and antidumping and countervailing duty cash deposit requirements for imports dual-piston engines from China, after preliminarily finding that the dual-piston engines are circumventing AD/CVD orders on vertical shaft engines between 99cc and up to 225cc from China (A-570-124/C-570-125).
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Sept. 28 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 is postponing until Dec. 19 the due date for its final determination in the antidumping duty investigation on steel nails from Turkey (A-489-846), it said in a notice. Currently, the preliminary determination is due no later than Dec. 4. Aslanbas Civi Tel Ve Celik Hasir San. A.S. (Aslanbas) and Sertel Vida Metals, A.S. (Sertel Vida), mandatory respondents in this investigation, requested that Commerce postpone. (See 2208080018 for the preliminary results of the investigation, 2201260027 for the initiation and scope of the investigation and 2201040030 for the underlying petition.)
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on emulsion styrene-butadiene rubber from Mexico (A-201-848). The agency calculated a zero percent AD rate for Industrias Negromex S.A. de C.V., the only company under review. Any changes to Negromex's cash deposit rate would take effect on the publication date of the final results of this review, currently due in January. If Negromex continues to get a zero rate in the final results once Commerce issues them, the agency will not assess AD duties for subject merchandise from Negromex entered Sept. 1, 2020, through Aug. 31, 2021, it said.
The Commerce Department will consider potential new exemptions for certain off-grid solar panels from the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on crystaline silicon photovoltaic cells from China (A-570-979/C-570-980) and crystalline silicon photovoltaic products from China (A-570-010/C-570-011), it said in two notices initiating a pair of changed circumstances reviews. The proposed exemptions were requested by Shenzhen Hello Tech Energy Co., Ltd., and are not opposed by several U.S. producers of solar products.