The Commerce Department will require cash deposits of estimated countervailing duties on cold-rolled steel flat products from Brazil, China, India and Russia, but will not at this time require cash deposits on the same product from South Korea, it said in an Dec. 16 fact sheet announcing its preliminary CV duty determinations (here). Rates are 7.42% for all Brazilian exporters, 227.29% for all Chinese exporters, 4.45% for all Indian exporters, and range from zero to 6.33% for Russian exporters. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will be retroactive to 90 days before the publication date of Commerce's preliminary determination for some companies from China. Cash deposit requirements for Brazil, India and Russia take effect upon publication of the preliminary determination. ITT will provide more details on Commerce's preliminary CV duty determinations once they are published in the Federal Register.
The FCC found just one rural telco market is ineligible for continued USF support based on a rule requiring subsidies to be eliminated where there's 100 percent overlap with an unsubsidized competitor. Pineville Telephone Co. faces unsubsidized competition in all of its “study area” in North Carolina and will have its USF support phased out over the next three years, the Wireline Bureau said in an order Monday in docket 10-90.
Antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on iron mechanical transfer drive components from Canada and China will continue, after the International Trade Commission on Dec. 11 unanimously voted that there is a "reasonable indication" that U.S. industry is being injured by dumped and illegally subsidized imports, it said (here). The next step is the Commerce Department’s preliminary determination, at which point AD and CV duty cash deposits may be required on imports of pressure pipe from India. Commerce’s preliminary findings are due Jan. 21 in the CV duty investigation on China, and April 5 in the AD duty investigations on Canada and China.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Dec. 14 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):
Antidumping and countervailing duty investigations will continue on circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from Oman, Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam, after the International Trade Commission voted on Dec. 11 that there is a "reasonable indication" U.S. industry is injured by dumped and subsidized imports (here). However, the AD duty investigation on circular welded pipe from the Philippines will end because the commission found imports from the country were negligible. The Commerce Department will now consider whether to impose cash deposit requirements on circular welded pipe from Pakistan in its preliminary CV duty determination, currently due Jan. 21, and its preliminary AD determinations on Oman, Pakistan, the UAE and Vietnam, due April 5 (both deadlines may be postponed).
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the countervailing duty administrative review on citric acid from China (C-570-938) (here). Commerce assigned the only exporter under review, Laiwu Taihe Biochemistry Co., Ltd. a CV duty rate of 30.90%. The new cash deposit rate for the company takes effect Dec. 14. In these final results, Commerce will calculate assessments of CV duties on importers of subject merchandise from Laiwu Taihe entered between Jan. 1, 2013 and Dec. 31, 2013.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on citric acid and certain citrate salts from China (A-570-937) (here). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered May 1, 2013 through April 30, 2014.
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on wooden bedroom furniture from China (A-570-890) (here). The agency preliminarily found seven companies under review, including Shanghai Jian Pu Import & Export Co., Ltd, were uncooperative, and tentatively assigned them to the China-wide entity with an AD rate of 216.01%. Commerce also preliminarily found the 11 other reviewed companies had no exports of subject merchandise to the U.S. during the period under review, intending no changes to these companies' AD rates.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on aluminum extrusions from China (C-570-968) (here). The agency calculated new CV duty cash deposit rates for 46 Chinese producers and exporters. These final results will be used to set final assessments of CV duties on importers for entries between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2013.
The FCC likely will tweak its two-degree satellite spacing rules but not do away with them altogether when commissioners vote Thursday on Part 25 rule changes at their December meeting, one lawyer with a satellite client told us. Much of the industry's lobbying efforts in recent months have involved two-degree spacing, the most contested issue in the agency's array of proposed Part 25 changes (see 1508050034).