The Commerce Department issued antidumping and countervailing duty orders on melamine from China (A-570-020/C-570-021). The orders 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/CV duties on importers and make changes to cash deposit rates.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Dec. 24, 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 http://adcvd.cbp.dhs.gov/adcvdweb.
The Commerce Department will soon begin requiring countervailing duty cash deposits on imports of heavy walled rectangular carbon steel pipes and tubes from Turkey, it said in a fact sheet issued Dec. 21 (here). Cash deposit requirements will begin on date Commerce publishes its preliminary determination in the Federal Register, with rates ranging from 1.35% to 7.69%. The final determination in this investigation is currently due in May. International Trade Today will have more details when Commerce publishes its preliminary determination.
The Commerce Department will require cash deposits of estimated antidumping duties on corrosion-resistant steel products from China, India, Italy and South Korea, but will not at this time require cash deposits on corrosion-resistant steel products from Taiwan, it said in an Dec. 22 fact sheet announcing its preliminary AD duty determinations (here). Rates are 255.8% for all Chinese exporters, and range from 6.64% to 6.92% for India, zero to 3.11% for Italy, and 2.99% to 3.51% for South Korea. Commerce may adjust these rates for export subsidies found in its concurrent countervailing duty investigations.
CBP posted its fiscal year 2015 Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act (also known as the "Byrd Amendment") annual report. Among other things, CBP lists $74.8 million in antidumping or countervailing duties that are awaiting collection and then disbursement, which will occur in the year in which the monies are received.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Dec. 22 Federal Register 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 International Trade Commission published notices in the Dec. 22 Federal Register on the following AD/CV injury, Section 337 patent, and other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
Mexico's Diario Oficial of Dec. 21 lists trade-related notices as follows:
The Commerce Department made preliminary affirmative countervailing duty determinations that imports of cold-rolled steel flat products from Brazil (C-351-844) (here), India (C-533-866) (here), China (C-570-030) (here) and Russia (C-821-823) (here) are being illegally subsidized. The agency will impose CV duty cash requirements on entries of subject merchandise from Brazil, India and Russia beginning on Dec. 22, and from China beginning on Sept. 23 or Dec. 22, depending on whether Commerce found "critical circumstances" for the producer/exporter of the merchandise.
The FCC's new two-degree spacing rules for satellites are "a middle ground" between extremes that had been staked out by different parties in the satellite industry, said Jose Albuquerque, chief of the International Bureau's satellite division, Thursday. The Part 25 Report and Order passed 5-0 Thursday follows a similar set of Part 25 rules changes approved in 2013 and was aimed at relieving regulatory burdens on applicants and deterring spectrum warehousing, IB Chief Mindel De La Torre said. The FCC will undertake a rulemaking in the future specifically on the two-degree spacing changes to assess their impact, Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel said.