A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Oct. 30, 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.
CBP issued an Enforce and Protect Act determination, finding BMF Imports evaded antidumping duties by transshipping xanthan gum from China through India, according to a recent agency notice.
DHS has updated its Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List to include textile companies that allegedly use forced labor or source material from the Xinjiang autonomous region in China, and it removed one entity from one category of alleged violations and placed it in another category, according to a Federal Register notice.
DHS is adding more companies to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, according to a notice released Oct. 31. Esquel Group, also known as Esquel China Holdings Limited; Guangdong Esquel Textile; and Turpan Esquel Textile are being added for sourcing material from Xinjiang or from persons working with the government of Xinjiang or the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps for purposes of China's ‘‘poverty alleviation’’ program or ‘‘pairing-assistance’’ program, among other Chinese government labor schemes. The notice also appears to change the reason an already listed company, Changji Esquel Textile, is on the list, removing the company from one of the four lists that make up the broader UFLPA Entity List but adding it to another. The changes take effect Nov. 1.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Oct. 30 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 Oct. 30 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 is beginning new antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on thermoformed molded fiber products from China and Vietnam, it said in a fact sheet Oct. 29. The underlying petition was filed in early October (see 2410100021). The International Trade Commission is scheduled to make its preliminary injury determinations by Nov. 22. These AD/CVD investigations will continue only if the ITC finds injury. International Trade Today will provide more details upon publication of the initiation notices in the Federal Register.
Domestic producers recently filed petitions with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission requesting new antidumping and countervailing duties on overhead door counterbalance torsion springs from China and India. Commerce will now decide whether to begin AD/CVD investigations, which could result in the imposition of permanent AD/CVD orders and the assessment of AD and CVD on importers. IDC Group, Iowa Spring Manufacturing and Service Spring requested the investigations.
Antidumping and countervailing duty investigations launched a year ago on aluminum extrusions from 14 countries will all end without the imposition of AD/CVD, after the International Trade Commission on Oct. 30 announced it didn't find injury in its investigations on China, Colombia, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Vietnam.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Oct. 29, 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.