The Commerce Department soon will suspend liquidation and impose countervailing duty cash deposit requirements on imports of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) from China and India, it said in a fact sheet issued Sept. 10. Commerce set CVD rates ranging from 3.1% to 27.68% for Chinese exporters, and 3.28% to 5.29% for Indian 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.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Sept. 11 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Importer Amsted Rail Co. argued at the Court of International Trade that the International Trade Commission failed to reconcile its "contradictory conclusions" on the same evidence in finding that the domestic industry was harmed by imports of freight rail couplers. Filing a motion for judgment on Sept. 6, ARC said that didn't account for a key finding in a previous investigation on the freight rail couplers, which said that the domestic industry's health is "disproportionately" tied to demand for the couplers in the original equipment manufacturer market segment (Amsted Rail Co. v. United States, CIT # 23-00268).
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Sept. 10, 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 Sept. 10 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 antidumping duty orders on mattresses from India (A-533-919), Kosovo (A-803-001), Mexico (A-201-859) and Spain (A-469-826). The orders detail a “gap period” of Aug. 28 - Sept. 3, 2024, of no AD duty liability.
Ferrosilicon: Prelim CVD Rates Take Effect for Brazil, Kazakhstan and Malaysia; Retroactive for Some
The Commerce Department is setting new countervailing duty cash deposit requirements for imports of ferrosilicon from Brazil (C-351-861), Kazakhstan (C-834-813) and Malaysia (C-557-829), after finding countervailable subsidization of producers and exporters in the three countries in the preliminary determinations of its CVD investigations. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will generally take effect for entries on or after Sept. 10, the date that the preliminary determinations were published in the Federal Register, but Commerce is making the suspension of liquidation and CVD cash deposits retroactive to approximately June 12 for some Brazilian and Malaysian companies.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on stainless steel bar from India (A-533-810). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise from companies under review entered Feb. 1, 2022, through Jan. 31, 2023.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Sept. 10 on AD/CVD proceedings:
In a Sept. 4 motion for judgment, an Italian pasta exporter whose countervailing duty rate jumped from under 2% to 88.67% due to the application of adverse facts available again argued that, based on the Eighth Amendment, AFA must still be assessed accurately and not be calculated to destroy a company entirely (see 2402290018) (Pastificio Gentile S.r.l. v. U.S., CIT # 24-00037).