The Commerce Department has released the final results of its antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on quartz surface products from China (A-570-084/C-570-085). Commerce said it continued its preliminary determination that certain Malaysian exporters of certain quartz surface products continue to be ineligible to participate in the scope certification process established for the AD and CVD orders on quartz surface products from China for all imports of quartz surface products from Malaysia. Specifically, it said it still finds "that these Malaysian exporters did not demonstrate that the quartz slab used to produce their exports" to the U.S. was sourced from "a country other than China."
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
Although some trade attorneys have been worrying that a Trump administration will discourage a Republican Congress from bringing back Generalized System of Preferences program tariff breaks for developing countries, members of the House Ways and Means Committee did not endorse that point of view.
Todd Owen, who served as executive assistant commissioner for field operations at CBP for about five years before retiring in 2020, argued that hundreds of millions of dollars for technology upgrades, and staffing expansions, would be more helpful to catch contraband in the small package environment than removing Chinese goods or other restrictions.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Nov. 20 Federal Register on the following 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 published notices in the Federal Register Nov. 20 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 issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on hard empty capsules from Brazil, China, India and Vietnam (A-351-864/C-351-865, A-570-184/C-570-185, A-533-934/C-533-935, A-552-847/C-552-848). The CVD investigations cover entries for the calendar year 2023. The AD investigations on Brazil and India cover entries Oct. 1, 2023, through Sept. 30, 2024, and the AD investigations on China and Vietnam cover entries April 1, 2024, through Sept. 30, 2024.
The Commerce Department is revoking the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on refillable stainless steel kegs from China (A-570-093/C-570-094), as well as the AD order on refillable stainless steel kegs from Mexico (A-201-849), after no domestic producers sought to participate in five-year sunset reviews conducted by the agency, it said in a notice. Effective for entries from Mexico on or after Oct. 10, 2024, and for entries from China on or after Dec. 16, 2024, Commerce will direct CBP to end suspension of liquidation and collection of AD/CVD cash deposits in connection with the now defunct AD/CVD orders, which had been in place since 2019. Entries before those effective dates will remain subject to suspension of liquidation and AD/CVD cash deposit requirements and assessments, Commerce said.
Trump transition team members may have already drafted an executive order hiking tariffs on Chinese imports, said Peterson Institute for International Economics fellow Mary Lovely, during a webinar moderated by former European commissioner and now PIIE fellow Cecilia Malmstrom.
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):