A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website March 18, 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 addcvd.cbp.gov. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)
The Commerce Department published notices in the March 18 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 final results of its reconducted antidumping duty administrative review on frozen warmwater shrimp from Vietnam (A-552-802). The agency made no changes from its preliminary findings, continuing to assign Grobest & I-Mei Industrial a punitive AD duty rate because the company allegedly refused to answer an agency questionnaire. Commerce had originally declined to individually review Grobest, but the Court of International Trade in July 2012 ordered Commerce to conduct the review of Grobest (see 12080205). The new rate is effective March 19.
CBP resolved a problem with the distribution of the March Preliminary Monthly Statements, the agency said in a CSMS message. CBP said March 17 it received "many calls from filers indicating they have not received" their statement, said CBP (here).
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website March 14, 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 addcvd.cbp.gov. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)
The PS4 remained the top-selling videogame system in the U.S. last month despite continued supply weakness on Sony’s console, according to NPD’s latest sales data. Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) wouldn’t say Friday how many PS4s were sold in the U.S. last month and NPD stopped providing hardware sales data to reporters a while ago. But Xbox One unit sales were less than 10 percent weaker than the PS4 in February (actually Feb. 2-March 1), and about 258,000 Xbox Ones were sold last month, said NPD spokesman David Reilly, confirming a statement released by Microsoft.
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on uncovered innerspring units from China (A-570-928). Commerce preliminarily set punitive AD duty rates for two non-Chinese companies -- Ta Cheng from Taiwan and Goldon from Malaysia -- that it says manufactured uncovered innerspring units in their respective countries from Chinese-origin components. Commerce said both companies stopped responding to its questionnaires, so the agency assigned them a rate equal to the China-wide entity rate for all exports of China-origin merchandise. These preliminary results are not in effect. Commerce may modify them in the final results of this review and change the estimated AD cash deposit rates for these companies.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the countervailing duty administrative review on kitchen appliance shelving and racks from China (C-570-942). The agency made no changes to its preliminary results, continuing to calculate the same CV duty rate for New King Shan. The new rate is effective March 17.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website March 13, 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 addcvd.cbp.gov. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)
The Commerce Department issued its final determination in the antidumping duty investigation on steel threaded rod from Thailand (A-549-831). The agency made no changes to the preliminary rates, continuing to assign a punitive rate to Tycoons Worldwide for its alleged lack of cooperation. Commerce took the rate it applied to all other companies from an average of AD rates claimed by domestic industry in its original petition for AD duties. The final determination is effective March 14.