The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from Oman (A-523-812). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers for subject merchandise entered Dec. 1, 2021, through Nov. 30, 2022.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Sept. 24 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 amending the final results published Aug. 19 of the antidumping administrative review on softwood lumber products from Canada (A-122-857/C-122-858). The agency agreed with West Fraser Mills Ltd., which pointed out a ministerial, or unintentional, error in a calculation Commerce used in arriving at the AD rates, after the final results for setting assessments of AD/CVD on importers for subject merchandise entered Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022, were published.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Sept. 24 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The U.S. on Sept. 20 defended its decision on remand to not apply partial adverse facts available against exporter Garg Tube, claiming that the exporter was "fully cooperative," having made multiple attempts to get cost information from an unaffiliated supplier. The government said Commerce couldn't find enough evidence to show that the potential leverage Garg Tube could exert over the supplier supports the use of AFA (Garg Tube Export v. U.S., CIT # 21-00169).
Based on preliminary findings, the telecom equipment market declined 16% year over year in Q2, “recording a fourth consecutive quarter of double-digit contractions,” Dell’Oro Group said in a new report. “Helping to explain the abysmal results are excess inventory, weaker demand in China, challenging 5G comparisons, and elevated uncertainty,” the report said. China saw a 17% market downturn, but Chinese gear makers Huawei and ZTE are gaining market share, Dell’Oro said. The top seven suppliers in the first half of the year were Huawei, Nokia, Ericsson, ZTE, Cisco, Ciena and Samsung, the report said: “Huawei and ZTE combined gained nearly 3 percentage points of share between 2023 and 1H24.”
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Sept. 23 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 recognizing a Canadian company's name change for the purposes of antidumping duties on softwood lumber products from Canada (A-122-857), it said in a notice of the final results of a changed circumstances review. The agency confirmed its preliminary finding that TRAPA Forest Products Ltd. is the successor-in-interest to Trans-Pacific Trading Ltd., saying that Trans-Pacific changed its name to TRAPA but otherwise continues to operate as the same business entity as before. Commerce said that effective Sept. 23, TRAPA now inherits the AD rate assigned to Trans-Pacific Trading, i.e., 7.8%, the review average rate set in the final results of the AD administrative review published Aug. 19 (see 2408160017). (For a summary of the preliminary results of this changed circumstances review, see 2407120030).
The Commerce Department made preliminary affirmative antidumping duty determinations that imports of melamine from Germany (A-428-852), India (A-533-924), Japan (A-588-882), the Netherlands (A-421-817) and Trinidad and Tobago (A-274-810) are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The agency will generally impose AD cash deposit requirements on entries of subject merchandise beginning on Sept. 24, 2024, though cash deposit requirements take effect retroactively for all some Indian, Japanese and Trinidadian companies, beginning on June 26, 2024.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Sept. 23 on AD/CVD proceedings: