The Commerce Department published notices in the May 22 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 listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website May 21, 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 issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on activated carbon from China (A-570-904). The agency calculated preliminary AD rates for two companies, Jacobi Carbons and Cherishmet, and preliminarily assigned an average of those rates to eight others..
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on solid fertilizer grade ammonium nitrate from Russia (A-821-811). The agency preliminarily calculated zero percent AD duty rates for JSC Acron and MCC EuroChem. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, ammonium nitrate from these companies entered between April 2012 and March 2013 will not be assessed AD duties, and future entries from these companies will not be subject to an AD duty cash deposit requirements until further notice.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on pure magnesium from China (A-570-832). Commerce continued to find the only respondent, affiliated companies Tianjin Magnesium International, Co., Ltd. and Tianjin Magnesium Metal Co., Ltd. (TMI/TMM), 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 remain at the zero percent rate set for TMI/TMM in the most recent prior administrative review in December (see 13123126).
The Commerce Department will require countervailing duty cash deposits on imports of calcium hypochlorite from China, it said in a May 20 fact sheet. The agency found a CV duty rate of 71.72% for all Chinese companies in its preliminary determination. The final determination in this investigation is currently due in September. ITT will have more details on the preliminary rates when Commerce publishes its preliminary determination in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department made a preliminary affirmative antidumping determination that non-oriented electrical steel (GOES) from South Korea (A-580-872) and Taiwan (A-583-851) is being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The agency will impose AD duty cash requirements on entries of NOES from South Korea ad Taiwan effective May 22.
The Commerce Department made a preliminary affirmative antidumping determination that non-oriented electrical steel (NOES) from Germany (A-428-843) is being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The agency found "critical circumstances" for CD Walzholz and Thyssenkrupp, and will impose retroactive AD duty cash requirements on entries from those companies effective Feb. 21. For all other Germany companies, AD duty cash deposit requirements will take effect May 22.
The Commerce Department made a preliminary affirmative antidumping determination that non-oriented electrical steel (NOES) from China (A-570-996), Japan (A-588-872) and Sweden (A-401-809) is being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. Due to a finding of "critical circumstances," the agency will impose retroactive AD duty cash requirements on entries of NOES from China, Japan and Sweden effective Feb. 21.
The Commerce Department published notices in the May 20 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):