The International Trade Commission published notices in the Feb. 3 Federal Register on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (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 announced the opportunity to request administrative reviews by Feb. 28 for producers and exporters subject to 45 antidumping duty orders and 17 countervailing duty orders with anniversary dates in February.
The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that in automatic five-year sunset reviews scheduled to begin in March it will consider revoking the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on sugar from Mexico (A-201-845/C-201-846) and wooden cabinets and vanities from China (A-570-106/C-570-107), as well as the AD order on small diameter graphite electrodes from China (A-570-929). These orders will be revoked, or investigation terminated, 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.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping duty orders on refined brown aluminum oxide from China (A-570-882) and steel threaded rod from China (A-570-932), Commerce said in a notice Feb. 3.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Panamanian officials Feb. 2 that President Donald Trump has made a preliminary determination that China’s influence and control over the Panama Canal area threatens the waterway and violates the 1977 agreement that transferred U.S. control of the canal to Panama, according to State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Jan. 31, 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.
After President Donald Trump announced his sweeping tariff action on China under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, as well as now-delayed IEEPA tariffs on Mexico and Canada, trade lawyers told us to expect the duties to be challenged in court. Matt Nicely, lead counsel in the ongoing case against tariffs imposed on China during Trump's first administration, said in an email that a legal challenge is coming, a sentiment echoed across the trade bar.
After pulling back for the moment on threatened 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports, China is the only country facing imminent tariffs over fentanyl smuggling. The 10% tariffs will be added to most favored nation duties or, for goods subject to Section 301 duties of either 25% or 7.5%, to those duties and the underlying MFN rates.
Tariffs will be delayed on Canada, President Donald Trump decided about eight hours before the deadline, and hours after he announced Mexico wouldn't face tariffs for the next month. He also granted Canada 30 days to convince him to keep duty-free trade flowing.
Goods exempted from new tariffs on Canada and China because they were in transit when the tariffs were announced must be entered before Feb. 7 for Canada, and before March 7 for China, to qualify for the exemption, CBP said in a pair of Federal Register notices released the afternoon of Feb. 3.