The Commerce Department is beginning new antidumping duty and countervailing duty investigations on L-lysine from China, it said in a fact sheet released June 18. The underlying petition was filed in May (see 2505290046). The International Trade Commission is scheduled to make its preliminary injury determination by July 14. The investigation 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.
The Commerce Department is setting new countervailing duty cash deposit requirements for imports of temporary steel fencing from China (C-570-199), after finding subsidization of Chinese producers in the preliminary determination of a CVD investigation. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements generally take effect June 20, but Commerce is making the suspension of liquidation and CVD cash deposits retroactive to March 22 for nearly all Chinese companies.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on tapered roller bearings from China (A-570-601). Commerce preliminarily found that Shanghai Tainai Bearing Co., Ltd. (Tainai) had no shipments during the review period. But Tainai remains under review until final results. If it continues this finding in the final results of this review, Tainai's AD cash deposit rate won't change as a result of this review, and any entries under its case number during the period June 1, 2023, through May 31, 2024, will be liquidated at the all-others rate.
The Commerce Department is issuing antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders on high chrome cast iron grinding media from India (A-533-930/C-533-931). The orders, published June 18, set permanent antidumping and countervailing duties, which will remain in place unless revoked by Commerce in a sunset or changed circumstances review. Commerce will now begin conducting annual administrative reviews, if requested, to determine final assessments of AD/CVD on importers and make changes to cash deposit rates.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices June 18 on AD/CVD proceedings:
A district court preliminarily enjoined a Mississippi social media age-verification law for the second time Wednesday, ruling it's too broad to survive a First Amendment challenge. The U.S. District Court for Southern Mississippi previously enjoined the same law, HB-1126, in July 2024 (see 2407010062).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register June 17 on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CVD rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of a countervailing duty administrative review on organic soybean meal from India (C-533-902). Rates set in this review will be used to assess CVD on subject merchandise from the exporters under review entered during the period Jan. 1, 2023, through Dec. 31, 2023.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on frozen fish fillets from Vietnam (A-552-801). The calculations are unchanged from the preliminary results, Commerce said. These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered August 2022 through July 2023.
The Commerce Department issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on hardwood and decorative plywood from China (A-570-211/C-570-212), Indonesia (A-560-844/C-560-845) and Vietnam (A-552-851/C-552-852). The CVD investigations cover entries for the calendar year 2024. The AD investigation on Indonesia covers entries April 1, 2024, through March 31, 2025, and the AD investigations on China and Vietnam cover entries Oct. 1, 2024, through March 31, 2025.