While work toward the OakPass program at the Port of Oakland is still in the early stages, the Federal Maritime Commission already has some detailed information on the plan, said John Cushing, president of PierPass during an Aug. 20 interview. PierPass, which is commonly associated with the “OffPeak” program in the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, will serve as the underlying administration services, including the hardware and software used for the payments, said Cushing. “OakPass is the program and PierPass will do that administration,” he said.
The Commerce Department is beginning antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on imports of cold-rolled steel flat products from Brazil, China, India, South Korea, Russia, Japan, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, it said in a fact sheet released Aug. 18 (here). A group of U.S. manufacturers requested the investigations on July 28 (see 1508030017).). The International Trade Commission is scheduled to make its preliminary injury determination by Sept. 11. 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 Aug. 18 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 issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on potassium permanaganate from China (A-570-001) (here). Commerce again found the only respondent, Pacific Accelerator Limited, had no shipments of subject merchandise to the U.S. during the period of review. As such, this company's AD cash deposit rate will not change. Any suspended entries that entered under PAL’s antidumping duty case numbers will be assessed AD duties at the China-wide rate.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Aug. 17, 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 published notices in the Aug. 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):
A countervailing duty cash deposit requirement will take effect Aug. 14 for imports of polyethylene terephthalate resin from India (C-533-862), as the Commerce Department found illegal subsidization of Indian producers in its preliminary determination (here). Commerce is making the suspension of liquidation and CV duty cash deposits retroactive to May 16 for subject merchandise from all Indian companies except Dhunseri.
A countervailing duty cash deposit requirement will take effect Aug. 14 for imports of polyethylene terephthalate resin from China (C-570-025), after the Commerce Department found illegal subsidization in its preliminary determination (here).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Aug. 13 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 Commerce Department published notices in the Aug. 12 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):