A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Feb. 10, 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 International Trade Commission published notices in the Feb. 7 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 is postponing until April 14 the preliminary determination in its antidumping duty investigation on chlorinated isocyanurates from Japan (A-588-870). The preliminary determination was originally due Feb. 21, but the domestic companies that requested the investigation said they needed more time to analyze data submitted by Japanese companies. Cash deposits of estimated AD duties may be required beginning on the date of Commerce’s preliminary determination, and in certain circumstances cash deposit requirements may be made retroactive 90 days before the agency’s preliminary finding.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Feb. 6 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):
European Commission antitrust concerns about Google’s online search and search advertising practices will be resolved by accepting binding commitments from the company rather than via an antitrust case, said EU Competition Commissioner Joaquín Almunia at a Wednesday press briefing. Google’s third offer to settle the competition case, which began in 2010, is capable of addressing the problems, and binding commitments are a faster way to achieve consumer benefits than going through drawn-out litigation, he said. A final decision, applicable only in the European Economic Area, on the matter will come later, and there will be no further market-testing of Google’s proposal, he said. Reaction to Almunia’s announcement was uniformly negative.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Feb. 5 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 published notices in the Feb. 4 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 is postponing until May 1 its preliminary determinations in the antidumping duty investigations on monosodium glutamate from China and Indonesia (A-570-992, A-560-826). The agency’s preliminary findings were originally due March 12, but Commerce says it needs more time because the investigation is "extraordinarily complicated." Cash deposits of estimated AD duties may be required beginning on the date of Commerce’s preliminary determination, and in certain circumstances cash deposit requirements may be made retroactive 90 days before the agency’s preliminary finding.
The Court of International Trade on Jan. 31 rejected a Commerce Department ruling on the extent of antidumping duties on petroleum wax candles from China, casting yet more uncertainty onto the agency’s current interpretation of the scope of that order. The court held Commerce based its ruling, which found over 200 novelty holiday candles imported by Trade Associates Group to be subject to AD duties, on an overbroad reading of the scope. In Commerce’s view, which had been codified in a 2011 “scope clarification,” the scope applied to all candles regardless of shape, unless specifically excluded from duty liability. CIT found that reading too expansive, finding a list of shapes of candles in the scope language limited the coverage of AD duties only to candles of those shapes.
The government of Canada issued the following trade-related notices for Feb. 3 (Note that some may also be given separate headlines.)