The Commerce Department published notices in the Sept. 23 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 large power transformers from South Korea (A-580-867). The agency calculated preliminary AD rates for five companies. In this review, Commerce will set assessments of AD duties on subject merchandise entered between Feb. 16, 2012 and July 31, 2013.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on frozen warmwater shrimp from Vietnam (A-552-802). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for entries between Feb. 1, 2012 and Jan. 31, 2013. New AD duty cash deposit rates set in this review will take effect Sept. 24.
The government of Canada issued the following trade-related notices for Sept. 22 (note that some may also be given separate headlines).
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative reviews on ball bearings and parts thereof from Japan (A-588-804) and the United Kingdom (A-412-801). Commerce recently revoked this AD duty order (see 14032524), so the agency will in the final results only set final assessments of AD duties on ball bearings for entries in 2010-11, and will not set cash deposit rates for future entries.
The Commerce Department issued its final affirmative countervailing duty determination on chlorinated isocyanurates from China (C-570-991). Although this final determination takes effect Sept. 22, Commerce will only require CV cash deposits of estimated CV duties on future entries if it issues a CV duty order.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Sept. 12-17, 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 Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations (COAC) for CBP will next meet Oct. 7 at 1 p.m. in Washington, CBP said in a notice.
The Commerce Department issued its final determination in the antidumping duty investigation on chlorinated isocyanurates from Japan (A-588-870). The agency increased AD duty cash deposit rates for Shikoku and Nankai, and lowered them for other Japanese exporters. Changes to AD duty cash deposit requirements take effect Sept. 18.
The Commerce Department’s decision to launch antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on Chinese passenger vehicles and light truck tires is a step in the right direction toward mitigating U.S. industry damage, said 31 Democratic senators, led by Kay Hagan, D-N.C., in a Sept. 15 letter. Commerce is set to make preliminary determinations on countervailing duties for the Chinese imports in late November (see 14081313). The United Steelworkers have petitioned Commerce multiple times in recent years to try to put CV duties into effect. “The Steelworkers’ petitions identified dumping margins as high as 87.99 percent and provided sufficient information for the department to initiate an investigation on 39 separate subsidies available to tire producers in China,” said the letter, sent to Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker. The union also rallied behind the letter. "China has methodically targeted industry after industry to fuel their export-led growth model and to keep their people employed,” said USW President Leo Gerard in a statement (here). “Too often, America is on the receiving side of their unfair trade practices that have contributed to the loss of more than 5 million manufacturing jobs and the shuttering of more than 60,000 facilities.”