No countervailing duty order will be issued, and no CV duties will be imposed, on imports of non-oriented electrical steel from South Korea (C-580-873), said the Commerce Department in its final determination. The agency continued to find that South Korean companies did not receive illegal subsidies, calculating de minimis CV duty rates for all companies under review. No CV duty cash deposit requirement is currently in place for NOES from South Korea, because Commerce also found no illegal subsidization in the preliminary determination it issued in March.
The Commerce Department issued its final countervailing duty determination on non-oriented electrical steel from Taiwan (C-583-852). Commerce continued to find China Steel Corporation and its affiliates did not receive illegal subsidies, so the China Steel group will be exempt from any CV duty order. For all other Taiwanese companies, suspension of liquidation (and CV duty liability) is currently not in effect for entries on or after July 23, but Commerce will require cash deposits of estimated CV duties on future entries if it issues a CV duty order.
The Commerce Department issued its final determinations in the antidumping duty investigations on non-oriented electrical steel from Taiwan (A-583-841) and South Korea (A-580-872). The final determinations are effective Oct. 14.
The Commerce Department issued its final affirmative countervailing duty determination on non-oriented electrical steel from China (C-570-997). Although this final determination takes effect Oct. 14, suspension of liquidation has been lifted for all entries on or after July 23, and Commerce will only require CV duty cash deposits on future entries if it issues a CV duty order.
The Commerce Department issued its final determinations in the antidumping duty investigations on non-oriented electrical steel from China (A-570-996) and Sweden (A-401-809).
Growth in PC shipments in North America and Western Europe in Q3 was offset by a drop in emerging markets shipments, according to preliminary data from Gartner. Worldwide PC shipments reached 79.4 million units in Q3, slipping 0.5 percent from the year-ago quarter, it said. But positive results in mature markets -- including a 4.2 percent bump in the U.S. to 16.6 million units -- for the quarter could signal a “gradual recovery for the PC industry,” said Mikako Kitagawa, principal analyst at Gartner. Consumers’ attention is “slowly going back to PC purchases” following mainstream consumer adoption of tablets that has peaked at 40-50 percent, Kitagawa said. Weakness in emerging markets reflects “saturation in selected consumer segments where they can afford PCs,” she said. Hewlett-Packard continued as the No. 1 PC brand in the U.S. in Q3 on shipments of 4.6 million, representing 27.8 percent market share, Gartner said. Dell came in second at 3.8 million shipments for 24.1 percent share followed by Apple at 2.4 million shipments and 14.3 percent share. Lenovo’s share slipped from 10.6 percent in Q3 2013 to 10.5 percent in Q3 2014 while shipments rose 3.2 percent to 1.7 million units, Gartner said. Toshiba lost a percentage point of market share to 6.1 percent as shipments declined nearly 10 percent in the quarter, Gartner said. Back-to-school season in the U.S. “was not exceptional,” Kitagawa said, but holiday season sales should be buoyed by “affordable touch-based laptops, price drops of thin and light laptops, and 2-in-1 hybrid laptops.” In emerging markets, consumers who don’t have PCs will likely buy low-priced tablets, resulting in slower growth in PC shipments, Kitagawa said. For the first time, Gartner said, the total of the top five PC vendors’ market share reached two-thirds of worldwide PC shipments, with all five showing stronger growth than the industry average. At No. 1, Lenovo grew its worldwide share to 19.8 percent in Q3 from 17.7 percent in the year-ago quarter on shipments of 15.7 million units. HP followed with shipments of 14.2 million, representing 17.9 percent market share and Dell at 10.2 million units with share of 12.8 percent, Gartner said. Acer shipped 6.8 million PCs in Q3 representing 8.6 percent market share, while Asus came in with 7.3 percent share on shipments of 5.8 million units, it said. Companies making up the “other” category posted shipments of 27 million for 33.6 percent share, it said.
CBP is in the process of internally organizing a number of areas of the coming Trusted Trader pilot as the test nears its start, said Michael Denning, acting executive director, Cargo and Conveyance Security, during the Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations (COAC) meeting on Oct. 7. CBP has selected and started to notify accepted applicants for the Trusted Trader pilot, he said. The pilot, which will test a combined CBP’s Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) supply chain security program with the Importer Self Assessment (ISA) import compliance program, was announced in June (see 14061320).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Oct. 9 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 looks set to recognize an Indian company’s name change for the purposes of antidumping duties on frozen warmwater shrimp from India (A-533-840), finding Premier Marine Products Private Limited to be the successor-in-interest to Premier Marine Products in the preliminary results of a changed circumstances review. The agency found Premier changed its corporate structure, and its name accordingly, but made no other changes besides the addition of a few partners with a minority stake. If Commerce confirms its finding in the final results, Premier Marine Products Private Limited will inherit the 2.49% AD duty rate assigned to Premier Marine Products in the most recently completed administrative review on shrimp from India.
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on new pneumatic off-the-road tires from China (A-570-912). The final results of this review will be used to set importer assessments for entries between Sept. 1, 2012 and Aug. 31, 2013.