The Commerce Department is postponing until Jan. 26, 2022, the due date for its preliminary determination in the antidumping duty investigations of urea ammonium nitrate solutions (UAN) from Trinidad and Tobago (A-274-808) and Russia (A-821-831), it said in a notice released Nov. 22. The due date is currently Dec. 7 (see 2107230047). The petitioner that requested the investigation, CF Industries Nitrogen, LLC and its subsidiaries, Terra Nitrogen, Limited Partnership, and Terra International (Oklahoma) LLC, asked for the extension. Commerce may suspend liquidation and require cash deposits of estimated AD duties beginning on the date it publishes its preliminary determination, or 90 days prior if it finds “critical circumstances.”
The Commerce Department made preliminary affirmative antidumping duty determinations that imports of raw honey from Argentina (A-357-823), Brazil (A-351-857), India (A-533-903), Vietnam (A-552-833) and Ukraine (A-823-820) are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The agency will impose AD duty cash requirements on entries of subject merchandise beginning on Nov. 23, except for some Argentine companies for which cash deposit requirements retroactively begin on or about Aug. 25.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Nov. 19 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. 19 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):
A domestic producer filed a petition Nov. 15 with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission requesting new antidumping duties on emulsion styrene-butadiene rubber from the Czech Republic, Italy and Russia. Commerce will now decide whether to begin AD duty investigations. The investigation was requested by Lion Elastomers.
The Commerce Department issued antidumping duty orders on thermal paper from Germany (A-428-850), Japan (A-588-880), Spain (A-469-824) and South Korea (A-580-911). The orders detail a “gap period” of Nov. 8-18, 2021, of no AD duty liability.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Nov. 18 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. 18 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 looks set to recognize a Chinese company’s name change for the purposes of antidumping duties on steel propane cylinders from China (A-570-086). The agency preliminarily found Yi Jun Hong Kong Limited (Yi Jun) to be the successor-in-interest to Hong Kong GSBF Company Limited (GSBF), in the preliminary results of a changed circumstances review released Nov. 18. The agency preliminarily found Yi Jun continues to operate as the same business entity other than the change in name. If Commerce confirms its finding in the final results, Yi Jun may inherit the AD duty rate assigned to GSBF, currently 43.65%.
The Commerce Department on Nov. 18 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 24 producers and exporters that was entered October 2019 through September 2020.