The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on large power transformers from South Korea (A-580-867) (here). Rates calculated in this review will be used to set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise from two exporters that was entered August 2013 through July 2014.
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on steel nails from China (A-570-909) (here). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for steel nails from China entered August 2013 through July 2014.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Sept. 2, 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 government of Canada recently issued the following trade-related notices for Sept. 2 (note that some may also be given separate headlines):
The Commerce Department is beginning antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on imports of hot-rolled steel flat products from Brazil, South Korea, Turkey, and antidumping duty investigations on hot-rolled steel from Australia, Japan, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, it said in a fact sheet released Sept. 1 (here). A group of U.S. manufacturers requested the investigations on Aug. 10 (see 1508120013). The International Trade Commission is scheduled to make its preliminary injury determination by Sept. 25. These AD/CV duty investigations will only continue if the ITC finds injury. ITT will provide more details upon publication of the initiation notice in the Federal Register.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Sept. 1 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):
The Commerce Department is beginning an antidumping duty new shipper review on pasta from Turkey (A-489-805) at the request of DURUM Gida Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S., said the agency (here). Commerce will instruct CBP to allow the posting of a bond instead of a cash deposit for entries of subject merchandise produced and exported by DURUM during the review. The preliminary results of the new shipper review are due in February, with the final results due 90 days after publication of the preliminary results.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on purified carboxymethylcellulose from the Netherlands (A-421-811) (here). Commerce determined the only company under review, Akzo Nobel Functional Chemicals, B.V./AkzoNobel Chemicals AG, did not undersell subject merchandise during the period of review, assigning the company a zero percent AD duty rate. Subject merchandise from Azko Nobel entered between July 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014 will be liquidated without any assessment of AD duties, and future entries of subject merchandise exported by Azko Nobel will not be subject to AD duty cash deposit requirements until further notice. These final results take effect Sept. 2.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on uncovered innerspring units from China (A-570-928) (here). Commerce found Creative Furniture & Bedding Manufacturing, a Malaysian company, was uncooperative, assigning the company an AD duty rate of 234.51%. Commerce will assess AD duties on all China-origin innersprings from Creative Furniture entered between Feb. 1, 2013 and Jan. 31, 2014. The new AD duty cash deposit rate takes effect Sept. 2.
Various rural LECs disputed preliminary FCC findings that they face 100 percent overlap from unsubsidized broadband/voice competitors, which if they do, will lead to their high-cost USF support being phased out under commission rules. Cable companies and other RLEC rivals said they were providing overlapping competition in a number of areas. NTCA, which represents many RLECs, urged the commission to require the competitors to provide specific evidence beyond assertions of previously reported deployment data submitted by broadband providers on Form 477.