The Commerce Department soon will suspend liquidation and impose countervailing duty cash deposit requirements on imports of vanillin from China, it said in a fact sheet Nov. 13. Commerce set CVD rates at 27.33% for all Chinese exporters, the agency said as it announced its preliminary determinations in its ongoing CVD investigations. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after the date of publication of the preliminary determinations in the Federal Register, which should occur in the coming days.
On Nov. 13, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts (after not having posted new ones for a number of days) on the detention without physical examination of:
House Select Committee on China Chairman Rep. John Moolenaar, R-Mich., proposes increasing tariffs on nearly all Chinese goods to at least 35% and raising tariffs on "strategic goods" to 100%, with exceptions only for goods that are currently sourced only from China.
Restrictive trade measures from 20 of the world's leading economies "significantly increased" over the past year, the World Trade Organization found in its 31st Trade Monitoring Report. While the Group of 20 countries also imposed 141 trade facilitating measures, the report said that from October 2023 to October 2024, G20 nations imposed 91 new trade-restrictive measures covering around $828.9 billion worth of goods, up from about $246 billion worth of goods in the last report, which covered restrictions imposed from mid-May to mid-October 2023.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Nov. 13 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 begin administrative reviews for certain firms subject to antidumping and countervailing duty orders with October anniversary dates, it said in a notice. Producers and exporters subject to administrative reviews on products from China or Vietnam must submit their separate rate certifications or applications on or about Dec. 16 in order to avoid being assigned high China-wide or Vietnam-wide rates.
The Commerce Department made preliminary affirmative antidumping duty determinations that imports of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, also known as 2,4-D, from China (A-570-160) and India (A-533-922) are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. AD suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements take effect Nov. 14.
The Bureau of Industry and Security is drafting an advance notice of proposed rulemaking that could lead to new import restrictions on certain drones and drone parts from China and other countries of concern.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Nov. 12, 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.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Nov. 12 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):