The Commerce Department issued its final determinations in the antidumping duty investigations on aluminum extrusions from China (A-570-158), Colombia (A-301-806), Ecuador (A-331-804), India (A-533-920), Indonesia (A-560-840), Italy (A-475-846), Malaysia (A-557-826), Mexico (A-201-860), South Korea (A-580-918), Taiwan (A-583-874), Thailand (A-549-847), Turkey (A-489-850), the United Arab Emirates (A-520-810) and Vietnam (A-552-837). Cash deposit rates set in this final determination are set to take effect Oct. 3, the scheduled publication date for these final determinations in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department will soon suspend liquidation and impose countervailing duty cash deposit requirements on imports of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, it said in a fact sheet issued Oct. 1. Commerce set CVD rates ranging from 8.25% to 68.45% for Cambodian exporters, 3.47% to 123.94% for Malaysian exporters, zero to 34.52% for Thai exporters and zero to 292.61% for all Vietnamese exporters, the agency said as it announced its preliminary determinations in its ongoing CVD 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. Trina Solar in Thailand and Boviet Solar Technology in Vietnam received the zero rates, and will not be subject to suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements until further notice for merchandise they both produce and export.
Eight Republicans, led by Rep. Carol Miller, R-W.Va., asked the Commerce Department to reconsider how importers of hardwood plywood can participate in a certification regime, so that CBP knows those imports are not within the scope of an anti-circumvention case on Vietnamese hardwood plywood with Chinese inputs.
The Court of International Trade on Oct. 1 ordered that an evidentiary hearing be held on Oct. 16 in a suit from importer Retractable Technologies on the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative's 100% Section 301 tariff hike on needles and syringes. The importer filed the suit to seek a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction on the duties, claiming the tariffs could send it out of business (see 2409270025) (Retractable Technologies v. United States, CIT # 24-00185).
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Oct. 1, 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 Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Oct. 1 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 issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping duty investigations on corrosion-resistant steel products from Australia (A-602-812), Brazil (A-351-862), Canada (A-122-871), Mexico (A-201-863), the Netherlands (A-421-818), South Africa (A-791-829), Taiwan (A-583-878), Turkey (A-489-855), the United Arab Emirates (A-520-811) and Vietnam (A-552-843), as well as its countervailing duty investigations on corrosion-resistant steel products from Brazil (C-351-863), Canada (C-122-872), Mexico (C-201-864) and Vietnam (C-552-844). The CVD investigations cover entries for the calendar year 2023. The AD investigations on Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Africa, Taiwan, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates cover entries July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024, and the AD investigation on Vietnam covers entries Jan. 1, 2024, through June 30, 2024.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Oct. 1 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on low-melt polyester staple fiber from South Korea (A-580-895). The agency set an AD rate of 2.46% for Toray Advanced Materials Korea, Inc. Any changes to Toray's cash deposit rate would take effect on the publication date of the final results of this review, currently due in early February. If Commerce finalizes these preliminary results, the agency will assess AD at importer-specific rates for entries from Toray entered Aug. 1, 2022, through July 31, 2023.
The Commerce Department has released its final determinations in the antidumping duty investigations on aluminum lithographic printing plates from China (A-570-156) and Japan (A-588-881). Cash deposit rates set in this final determination took effect Sept. 27.