The Commerce Department is amending the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on phosphate fertilizers from Morocco (C-714-001), published Nov. 12, to correct a ministerial error that affected the duty rate calculations for the only company under review in those final results. The new rate will be used to set final assessments of CVD on importers for entries between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department issued countervailing duty orders on frozen warmwater shrimp from Ecuador (C-331-806), India (C-533-921) and Vietnam (C-552-838), and an antidumping duty order on frozen warmwater shrimp from Indonesia (A-560-842). The orders set permanent antidumping and countervailing duties that will remain in place unless revoked by Commerce, which may take place only under certain conditions, such as a sunset or changed circumstances review. Commerce will now begin conducting annual administrative reviews, if requested, to determine final assessments of AD/CV duties on importers and make changes to cash deposit rates.
The Commerce Department soon will suspend liquidation and impose antidumping duty cash deposit requirements on imports of disposable aluminum containers, pans, trays, and lids from China, it said in a fact sheet issued Dec. 20. Commerce set AD rates ranging from 193.9% to 287.8% for Chinese exporters, the agency said as it announced its preliminary determinations in its ongoing AD investigations. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after the date of publication of the preliminary determinations in the Federal Register, which should occur in the coming days.
The Commerce Department stuck with its determination in the 2021-22 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on mechanical tubing of carbon and alloy steel from Italy that exporter Dalmine and its Romanian input provider Silcotub shouldn't be collapsed (ArcelorMittal Tubular Products v. United States, CIT # 24-00039).
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Dec. 20, 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 CBP's ADCVD Search page.
The Court of International Trade on Dec. 19 denied importer Lionshead Specialty Tire and Wheel's bid to amend a preliminary injunction in an antidumping duty and countervailing duty evasion case to not enjoin the liquidation of steel trailer wheels that the Commerce Department has found to fall outside the scope of the relevant AD/CVD orders. Judge Gary Katzmann held that Lionshead failed to "demonstrate changed circumstances that warrant the modification of the preliminary injunction."
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Dec. 20 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 European Commission on Dec. 19 opened a safeguard investigation on alloy imports to look into whether global overcapacity and trade-restrictive measures in other major markets have injured the EU alloy industry, the Directorate-General for Trade announced. If the investigation finds injury to the EU industry, the commission can propose safeguards, which would need approval from a majority of EU member states, the commission said. The investigation shall run a maximum of nine months. The EU can impose provisional duties for up to 200 days if the preliminary determination in the investigation lays out "clear evidence that increased imports have caused or are threatening to cause serious injury," the commission said.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on stainless steel sheet and strip in coils from Taiwan (A-583-831). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers for subject merchandise entered July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Dec. 20 on AD/CVD proceedings: