The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices March 21 on AD/CVD proceedings:

A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website March 20, 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 Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register March 20 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 is beginning an antidumping investigation on chassis and subassemblies thereof from Mexico, Thailand and Vietnam, and a countervailing duty investigation of the same goods from Mexico and Thailand, it said in a fact sheet March 19. The underlying petition was filed earlier this month (see 2503030055). The International Trade Commission is scheduled to make its preliminary injury determinations by April 14. 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.

The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on forged steel fittings from South Korea (A-580-904). The agency preliminarily calculated a 18.72% AD rate for the only company under review, Samyoung Fitting Co., Ltd. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from Samyoung entered Dec. 1, 2022, through Nov. 30, 2023, will be assessed AD at importer-specific rates. Any changes to the cash deposit rate for Samyoung would take effect on the date of publication in the Federal Register of the final results of this review, currently due in July.

The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of a countervailing duty administrative review of multilayered wood flooring from China (C-570-971). This review covers subject merchandise from the exporters under review entered during the period Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022.

The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on polyethylene retail carrier bags from Malaysia (A-557-813). Commerce calculated a zero percent AD rate for the only company under review, Euro SME Sdn. Bhd. and its affiliate Euro Nature Green Sdn. Bhd., unchanged from the preliminary results. Subject merchandise from Euro SME entered Aug. 1, 2022, through July 31, 2023, won't be assessed AD. The new zero percent AD cash deposit rate takes effect for Euro SME and its affiliate March 21, the date these final results are to be published in the Federal Register.

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The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices March 20 on AD/CVD proceedings:

In another missed deadline case (see 2501070084, 2409100065) and 2501270069), Chinese steel rack exporter Nanjing Dongsheng Shelf Manufacturing said again March 17 that the Commerce Department shouldn’t have hit it with adverse facts available for assuming a deadline extension offered to most separate rate review respondents had also been granted to it (Nanjing Dongsheng Shelf Manufacturing Co. v. United States, CIT # 24-00085).