The Commerce Department has published the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on phosphate fertilizers from Russia (C-821-825). The agency calculated a CVD rate of 18.21% for the only company under review, Joint Stock Company Apatit and its cross-owned affiliates, slightly lower than the rate calculated in the preliminary results, i.e., 18.83%. These final results will be used to set final assessments of CVD on importers for subject merchandise entered during the period of review Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022. A new 18.21% CVD cash deposit rate for JSC Apatit and affiliates takes effect Nov. 12, the date these final results were published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on phosphate fertilizers from Morocco (C-714-001). The agency calculated a CVD rate of 16.81% for the only company under review, OCP S.A., and six affiliate companies, slightly higher than the rate calculated in the preliminary results, i.e., 14.21%. These final results will be used to set final assessments of CVD on importers for subject merchandise entered during the period of review Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022. A new 16.81% CVD cash deposit rate for OCP is effective Nov. 12, the date these final results were published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Nov. 12 on AD/CVD proceedings:
In a science-heavy motion for judgment filed Oct. 24, an importer of enriched isotope compounds said that the Commerce Department had, in a scope ruling, misunderstood the essential chemistry behind its products (Cambridge Isotope Laboratories v. U.S., CIT # 23-00080).
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Oct. 11 issued its mandate in an appeal of a case on the countervailing duty investigation on Russian phosphate fertilizers brought by exporters Phosagro PJSC and JSC Apatit. The appeal was previously dismissed by CAFC for failure to prosecute (see 2408200028). A separate appeal of the case from exporter Industrial Group Phosphorite continues at the court, with the company claiming that the Commerce Department contradicted the CVD statute in finding that the Russian government's provision of natural gas was de facto specific (see 2408080058) (The Mosaic Co. v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 24-1595).
TD Bank has agreed to pay about $3.1 billion in penalties to resolve allegations that its lax adherence to anti-money laundering laws allowed perpetrators of drug and human trafficking and terrorist financing to access the U.S. financial system, the bank, along with DOJ and the Treasury Department, announced Oct. 10.
The Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force is adding two companies based in China to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List, bringing the total number of entities up to 75, the Department of Homeland Security said in a notice released Oct. 2.
Members of the European Parliament approved a resolution last week calling on the EU to expand sanctions against Russia, Belarus, and non-EU countries and entities providing Russia with military and dual-use technologies.
The Commerce Department made preliminary affirmative antidumping duty determinations that imports of melamine from Germany (A-428-852), India (A-533-924), Japan (A-588-882), the Netherlands (A-421-817) and Trinidad and Tobago (A-274-810) are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The agency will generally impose AD cash deposit requirements on entries of subject merchandise beginning on Sept. 24, 2024, though cash deposit requirements take effect retroactively for all some Indian, Japanese and Trinidadian companies, beginning on June 26, 2024.
The EU General Court on Sept. 18 rejected a trio of cases challenging sanctions designations, brought by potassium fertilizer maker Belaruskali AAT, its director-general Ivan Golovaty and its exporting wing Belarusian Potash Company AAT.