The International Trade Administration is publishing notices in the October 26, 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 preliminary results of its antidumping duty changed circumstances review of stainless steel plate in coils from Belgium (A-423-808). The ITA has preliminarily determined that Aperam Stainless Belgium N.V. is the successor-in-interest to ArcelorMittal Stainless Belgium N.V. and should receive the same AD treatment with respect to stainless steel plate in coils from Belgium as the former ArcelorMittal. (ArcelorMittal's AD duty rate is 6.57%.)
The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative and new shipper reviews of folding tables and chairs from China (A-570-868), which sets AD duty cash deposit rates for three exporters (Feili, Lifetime, and Xinjiamei). The rates for these three are officially effective October 25, 2011, and are expected to be implemented by U.S. Customs and Border Protection soon. The ITA is also revoking this AD order for New-Tec as producer and exporter1. This revocation is effective retroactive to June 1, 2010, and is also expected to be implemented by CBP soon.
The International Trade Administration has issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review of wooden bedroom furniture from China (A-570-890). The ITA preliminarily finds an AD margin of 41.75% for the exporter Tube-Smith Enterprises (ZhangZhou) Co. Ltd. and its affiliated companies Tube-Smith Enterprises (Haimen) Co., Ltd. and Billionworth Enterprises, Ltd.
The International Trade Commission is seeking comments on a preliminary version of a plan for the retrospective analysis of its existing regulations. Among other things, the ITC is considering reviewing its regulations for commercial availability requests under AGOA, injury determinations in antidumping and countervailing duty investigations, etc.
The International Trade Administration is publishing notices in the October 24, 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):
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued notice that it is programming ABI for the new .3464% Merchandise Processing Fee for formal entries that is effective as of October 1, 2011. The agency states that it will give the trade approximately one week’s notice before ABI starts requiring the higher MPF. Officials expect to generate bills for the period that began on October 1 through the day before the higher rate is implemented, to collect the difference between the old and new rates for that time period.
The International Trade Administration is publishing notices in the October 21, 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 preliminary results of the antidumping duty administrative review of fresh garlic from China (A-570-831) for the China-wide entity. The ITA preliminarily finds an AD margin of $4.71/kg for the seven companies preliminarily included the China-wide entity, which is the same China-wide rate as the previous review. These preliminary results are not in effect. They may change in the final results and become the estimated AD cash deposit rates for these firms.
Apple didn’t immediately comment after research company IHS iSuppli said Thursday that a preliminary teardown analysis of the new iPhone 4S showed that the entry-level, 16-GB model’s bill of materials (BOM) is $188. When an additional $8 manufacturing cost is added on, the total grows to $196, IHS said. The other two 4S SKUs “are identical to the baseline version,” with the exception of added NAND flash, it said. That gives the 32-GB SKU a BOM of $207 and the 64-GB SKU a BOM of $245. The teardown also showed that the 4S features a new wireless module with “a unique custom module” from Avago Technologies and the first use of Hynix Semiconductor NAND flash memory in an iPhone product after Samsung and Toshiba were the suppliers on prior models, IHS said. “Key among” changes in the 4S is a custom part from Avago that helps give the device its “unique capability to be used in multiple wireless systems globally, while still keeping costs down,” said Andrew Rassweiler, IHS senior director, teardown services. “Another key device enabling the global wireless capability” of the 4S is its MDM6610 baseband processor from Qualcomm, IHS said, calling it a big design win for that component supplier. Although Qualcomm’s MDM6600 was in the CDMA version of the iPhone 4, Intel’s PMB9801 was used in the HSPA model, IHS analyst Wayne Lam said. The memory subsystem of the 16-GB 4S costs $19.20, making it the second most expensive component after the display, IHS said. But the cost of the NAND rises to $38.40 in the 32-GB version and to $76.80 in the 64-GB model, making it the most expensive set of components in those devices, it said. IHS estimated that the 4S display costs $23 and the touch-screen $14 regardless of 4S SKU. Sony supplied the image sensor for the 8-megapixel camera in the model that was torn down by IHS, but the research company said Apple “likely is using a secondary source for this device,” OmniVision. IHS estimated that the camera costs $17.60 in each 4S SKU. Components that were “more or less unchanged” from the iPhone 4 included the Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/Frequency Modulation module from Murata Manufacturing and Broadcom, and an audio codec from Cirrus Logic, IHS said.