Commerce Begins Scope, Anti-Circumvention Inquiries on Malaysian Quartz Surface Products
The Commerce Department will consider whether imports of quartz surface products from Malaysia made from Chinese-origin inputs are covered by antidumping and countervailing duties on quartz surface products from China (A-570-084/C-570-085), it said in a notice released Feb. 4 launching a scope inquiry and an anti-circumvention inquiry.
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Commerce said it will first conduct the scope inquiry to determine whether the Malaysian quartz surface products, or some subset of them, should be subject to AD/CV duties. If it does not find that some of all Malaysian quartz surface products made from Chinese inputs are covered by the scope of the AD/CVD orders, it will then conduct an anti-circumvention inquiry to address the same question for the non-scope merchandise, Commerce said.
Commerce will direct CBP to continue to suspend liquidation for Malaysian quartz surface products made from Chinese-origin inputs for any inputs already suspended. If it issues a preliminary or final scope ruling that the merchandise is subject to the AD/CVD orders, Commerce will direct CBP to suspend liquidation for all entries on or after Feb. 7, as well as for any unliquidated entries “not yet suspended, entered or withdrawn from warehouse” on or after Nov. 4, the effective date of a recent Commerce final rule allowing retroactive suspension of liquidation (see 2109160058).
Likewise, should Commerce proceed after the scope inquiry, it will tell CBP to continue to suspend liquidation for any entries already suspended. If it issues a preliminary or final circumvention determination it will direct CBP to suspend liquidation for unliquidated entries retroactively to Nov. 4, 2021, the effective date of the final rule.