The government of Canada issued the following trade-related notices for July 23 (note that some may also be given separate headlines)
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website as of July 20, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching on the listed CBP message number at http://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.)
China's Ministry of Commerce said it will launch an anti-dumping investigation of imports of solar grade polysilicon products originating in the U.S. and South Korea, as a result of a complaint it received July 2. In the July 20 announcement, MofCom said the complaint was from Jiangsu Silicon Technology Development, LDK Solar LDK PV Silicon Technology, Luoyang Sino-silicon high-tech and New Energy Co.
The Australia Group and Nuclear Suppliers Group are both performing comprehensive reviews of aspects of their export control lists, and the Wassenaar Arrangement is in the preliminary phases of such a review, said Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation Vann Van Diepen in remarks at the Update 2012 Conference on Export Controls and Policy. In his remarks, Van Diepen highlighted key developments in multilateral regime export controls over the past year. Highlights include:
Qualcomm is shifting the focus of its bistable MEMS-based Mirasol display technology to licensing, while commercializing “only certain” products, Chief Financial Officer William Keitel said on an earnings call. The company, which has been building the display business since acquiring the MEMS technology in 2004 and is constructing a plant in Taiwan that’s expected start production this fall, is “pruning” the products it will offer, a source familiar with Qualcomm’s plans told us.
The Court of International Trade remanded the final determination in the antidumping duty investigation of certain steel grating from China (A-570-947), and ordered the International Trade Administration to (1) redetermine the AD margin for non-individually investigated separate rate recipients Yantai Xinke Steel Structure and Ningbo Haitian International; and (2) determine a separate rate for mandatory respondent Ningbo Jiulong Machinery, which the ITA had determined to be part of the China-wide entity when it applied adverse facts available (AFA). CIT also sustained the ITA’s decision to apply AFA to Jiulong.
World exports of commercial services rose 3 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2012, following the same pattern in fourth quarter 2011, according to preliminary estimates of United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the World Trade Organization. World trade estimates are aggregated from individual reporters' quarterly balance-of-payments statistics taken from the IMF and Eurostat, supplemented with estimates for missing data, as well as national sources, UNCTAD said.
The International Trade Administration issued the preliminary results of its administrative review of the antidumping duty order on solid urea from the Russian Federation (A-821-801) for one company, MCC EuroChem. These preliminary results are not in effect. The ITA may modify them in the final results of this review and change the estimated AD cash deposit rate for this company.
The International Trade Administration issued the initiation and preliminary results of its antidumping duty changed circumstances review of certain cased pencils from the People's Republic of China (A-570-827), in response to a request by U.S. importer of subject merchandise ThinkGeek, Inc. that the ITA revoke, in part, the AD order with respect to novelty drumstick pencils. The ITA said the domestic industry has affirmatively expressed a lack of interest in the continuation of the order with respect to this product. Therefore, The ITA intends to revoke, in part, the AD order as it relates to imports of these novelty drumstick pencils.
The International Trade Administration published notices in the July 16 Federal Register on the following AD/CV proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, the scope, affected firms, or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):