A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website July 12, 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 has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from the United Arab Emirates (A-520-807). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered Dec. 1, 2021, through Nov. 30, 2022.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on carbon and alloy steel threaded rod from China (C-570-105). The agency calculated a new CVD cash deposit rate for the Chinese producer and exporter and its affiliate listed below, at a rate lower than that calculated in the preliminary results of this review. These final results will be used to set final assessments of CVD on importers for entries during the period January 2022 through December 2022.
The Commerce Department looks set to recognize a Canadian company's name change for the purposes of antidumping duties on softwood lumber products from Canada (A-122-857). The agency preliminarily found TRAPA Forest Products Ltd. is the successor-in-interest to Trans-Pacific Trading Ltd., in the preliminary results of a changed circumstances review released July 12. The agency preliminarily found that Trans-Pacific changed its name to TRAPA but otherwise continues to operate as the same business entity as before. If Commerce confirms its findings in the final results, TRAPA will inherit the AD rate assigned to Trans-Pacific Trading, which was 1.79% (the review average rate) in the final results of an AD administrative review published in August 2023 (see 2307310058).
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
Customs broker Seko Customs Brokerage continued its bid for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against CBP's move to temporarily suspend Seko from the Entry Type 86 pilot and the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism program, filing a brief in support of the motions at the Court of International Trade on July 10 (Seko Customs Brokerage v. United States, CIT # 24-00097).
Customs broker Seko Customs Brokerage continued its bid for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against CBP's move to temporarily suspend Seko from the Entry Type 86 pilot and the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism program, filing a brief in support of the motions at the Court of International Trade on July 10 (Seko Customs Brokerage v. United States, CIT # 24-00097).
The Court of International Trade will hold oral argument July 12 at 10 a.m. EDT in customs broker Seko Customs Brokerage's case against CBP's suspension of the company from participation in the Entry Type 86 pilot and Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism program. Judge Claire Kelly will hear argument on Seko's application for a temporary restraining order and motion for preliminary injunction (Seko Customs Brokerage v. U.S., CIT # 24-00097).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register July 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 has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on prestressed concrete steel wire strand from Malaysia (A-557-819). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set an assessment rate for subject merchandise for the single company under review entered June 1, 2022, through May 31, 2023.