New antidumping and countervailing duty cash deposit requirements are set to take effect on imports of non-oriented electrical steel from six countries, as the Commerce Department on Oct. 7 announced its affirmative preliminary determinations in the investigations. Commerce will set AD duties on NOES from China, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Sweden and Taiwan, and CV duties on NOES from China and Taiwan. It found no countervailable subsidization of NOES from South Korea.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Oct. 7, 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 Oct. 7 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):
CEA disagrees with the Department of Energy’s tentative decision that “computer and backup battery systems” qualify as covered products under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA), CEA said in comments posted Friday in the DOE’s rulemaking in docket EERE-2014-BT-STD-0025 (http://1.usa.gov/1pHW5Ca). Under the EPCA, if DOE issues a final determination that computer systems are a covered product, the rulemaking notice says, it may establish a test procedure and energy conservation standard for those products, assuming they meet several EPCA criteria, including a finding that it takes the average home more than 100 kilowatt-hours per year to run them.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Oct. 6 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 issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on narrow woven ribbons with woven selvedge from Taiwan (A-583-844). The agency preliminarily calculated new AD rates for two companies, King Young and Hen Hao. In this review, Commerce will set assessments of AD duties on subject merchandise entered between September 2012 and August 2013.
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its countervailing duty administrative review on lined paper products from India (C-533-844). The agency preliminarily calculated a new CV duty rate for AR Printing. The final results of this review will be used to set CV duty assessments on importers for subject merchandise entered during calendar year 2012.
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on lined paper products from India (A-533-843). The agency preliminarily calculated a new AD rate for one company, Super Impex. In this review, Commerce will set assessments of AD duties on subject merchandise entered between September 2012 and August 2013.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Oct. 3 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 preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review and a new shipper review on freshwater crawfish tail meat from China (A-570-848). In the administrative review, which will set assessment rates on importers for entries between September 2012 and August 2013, Commerce preliminarily found a zero percent AD duty rate for Xiping Opeck. In the new shipper review, Commerce preliminarily assigned Hubei Nature a zero percent cash deposit rate.