The Commerce Department began administrative reviews for certain firms subject to antidumping and countervailing duty orders with April anniversary dates. Producers and exporters subject to any of these administrative reviews on China or Vietnam must submit their separate rate certifications or applications by June 3 to avoid being assigned high China-wide or Vietnam-wide rates.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register May 16 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 said it's partially rescinding the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain frozen warmwater shrimp (shrimp) from India (A-533-840) for the period of review Feb. 1, 2023, through Jan. 31, 2024, because a large number of companies had no reviewable, suspended entries of subject merchandise during the review period. Those companies are listed in Appendix II of the notice. Three other companies will not be reviewed because their requests for review were withdrawn. They are named in Appendix I of the notice.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 16 on AD/CVD proceedings:
On May 15, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
A bill that would require the FDA to "significantly increase testing of imported shrimp and publicly report inspection results" was introduced this week by Reps. Mike Ezell, R-Miss., Julia Letlow, R-La., and Troy Carter, D-La.
A coalition of food producers, including the American Honey Producers Association, the Catfish Farmers of America, the Crawfish Processors Alliance, the Louisiana Farm Bureau Crawfish Committee, and the Southern Shrimp Alliance, sent a letter May 9 asking President Donald Trump to impose tariffs on "unfairly traded imports" of products similar to theirs.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website May 7, 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 Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Apr. 9-25 with the following headquarters rulings (ruling revocations and modifications will be detailed elsewhere in a separate article as they are announced in the Customs Bulletin):
A May 8 cargo systems message says that for shipments of wild-caught shrimp, Peru will no longer be a valid country code when submitting a PGA Message Set with data for the Office of Marine Conservation. This change pertains to situations where conformance declaration code "7B" is used.