The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of its antidumping duty administrative review of solid urea from the Russian Federation (A-821-801) which sets an AD cash deposit rate of 1.17% for solid urea produced and exported by MCC EuroChem. This rate, which is effective October 27, 2011, is expected to be implemented by U.S. Customs and Border Protection soon.
The International Trade Administration has issued an affirmative final determination that certain steel wire garment hangers exported by two Vietnamese companies, Angang Clothes Rack Manufacture Co., Ltd., and Quyky Yanglei International Co., Ltd. are circumventing the antidumping duty order on steel wire garment hangers from China (A-570-918).
The International Trade Administration is revoking the antidumping duty order on diamond sawblades and parts from Korea (A-580-855) effective October 24, 2011, due to its determination under Section 129 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act regarding “zeroing”. However, due to legal action, the ITA will continue to suspend liquidation for all entries, but at a zero rate.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's Web site as of October 26, 2011, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. These messages are available by searching on the listed CBP message number at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.
The Maritime Administration (MARAD) has recently released a transcript of its October 3, 2011 public meeting on how it should implement its cargo preference regulations going forward (46 CFR 381-382), in accordance with the President's Executive Order on independent agency regulatory review1. Statements provided by participants in the marine cargo industry urged MARAD to, among other things, improve enforcement of the cargo preference laws and promulgate a regulation to implement a 2008 amendment that granted MARAD greater authority over the program.
The International Trade Commission is publishing notices in the October 27, 2011 Federal Register on the following AD/CV injury, Section 337 patent, and other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will appear in another ITT article):
The International Trade Administration is publishing notices in the October 27, 2011 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):
The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of its antidumping duty administrative review of purified carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) from the Netherlands (A-421-811), which sets an AD cash deposit rate of 3.57% for the exporter Akzo Nobel Functional Chemicals B.V. This rate, which is effective October 27, 2011, is expected to be implemented by U.S. Customs and Border Protection soon.
At the October 4, 2011 COAC meeting, COAC’s “One U.S. Government at the Border” Subcommittee gave an update on its work on identifying redundancies with CBP and PGA requests for documents/data and considering the use of a single document imaging system between trade, CBP, and PGAs involved in the import process. In addition, CBP has posted a document on its “One U.S. Government at the Border” initiative.
The federal judge hearing a challenge to a San Francisco ordinance requiring cellphone retailers to make city-written disclosures about handset radiation questioned the basis for the requirement. In a notice filed Monday in a CTIA lawsuit, U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco asked the sides whether “disclosures compelled by any government in the United States” have ever been based on a listing by the World Health Organization (WHO) of a “possible” carcinogen “and the ‘precautionary principle'” of acting before danger is proved. “If so, was it tested in the case law, and if so, provide the cite,” he said in a follow-up to a hearing on a CTIA request for a preliminary injunction against enforcement of the landmark ordinance, due to start this month (CD Oct 21 p9). “What specific studies or evidence led … WHO to list” radiofrequency energy “as a ‘possible'” carcinogen? Alsup required responses by noon Oct. 25. A city filing Tuesday said an arm of WHO had classified cellphone radiation as a possible carcinogen based mainly on the Interphone study and research by a Swedish working group. The federal government and several states, including California and New Jersey, impose disclosure requirements regarding chemicals labeled the same as the radiation, as “Group 2B Carcinogens,” the city said. It said no known party to a lawsuit has contended that the classification can’t trigger a disclosure requirement. No filing by CTIA had been posted online late Tuesday. At the hearing, Alsup had sharply questioned a CTIA argument that the ordinance violates the U.S. Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, but he also questioned the city’s defense of the law against First Amendment attack. Alsup said he would rule by next week.