Apex is moving to marshal retail support for a final hearing April 15 before the International Trade Commission (ITC), which will decide whether to impose duties on TVs imported from China and Malaysia, Apex Sales Vp Gary Bennett said. Among the retailers Apex contacted are Best Buy, Circuit City, Sears and Wal-Mart, he said. Wal-Mart testified against imposing duties during a preliminary ITC hearing. “We're not asking them [retailers] to defend us and the Chinese,” Bennett said: “We're asking them just to defend their own import situation.” Best Buy is among a growing number of retailers to have established a buying office in China. The Commerce Dept. is scheduled to release the proposed duties April 12 and the ITC will vote whether to impose them on May 14. TV set manufacturer Five Rivers Electronic Innovations and labor unions from Sanyo and Toshiba plants filed a complaint with ITC last May seeking duties of 84% and 64% on TVs shipped to the U.S. from China and Malaysia, respectively. Chinese manufacturers named in the complaint include Hisense, Konka, Sichaun Changhong and Skyworth. In 2002, imports from China rose to 1.2 million units with a value of $240.6 million, up from 56,295 ($23.9 million) a year earlier.
1 The China-wide rate applies to China exporters without separate rates (including
The International Trade Administration (ITA) frequently issues notices on antidumping (AD) and countervailing (CV) duty orders which Broker Power considers to be "minor" in importance as they concern actions that occur after an order is issued and neither announce nor cause any changes to an order's duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective period.
(a) For a company previously found to be entitled to a separate rate and for which no review was requested, the cash deposit rate will be the rate established in the most recent review of that company.
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has initiated antidumping (AD) duty investigations of certain tissue paper products and certain crepe paper products from China.
Pursuant to the initiation notice of an AD duty new shipper review, a bond or other security may continue to be posted in lieu of an AD cash deposit, until the final results are in effect.
According to the ITA, the petitioner, International Imaging Materials, Inc. (IIMAK), alleged that respondents in the three concurrent investigations of TTR (France, Japan, and South Korea) would attempt to circumvent the order by slitting jumbo rolls in third countries. Therefore, the ITA states that IIMAK requested that slitting does not change the country of origin of TTR for AD duty purposes.
(a) These companies as both exporter and producer have de minimis CV rates (Boccam: 0.41% and Sechoirs: 0.60%) and are excluded from the CV duty order.
(a) Companies other than the 14 listed above, will either be subject to an earlier final results of a CV duty review or the "all others" rate established in the original CV duty investigation. The ITA notes that the "all others" rate is expected to change in a future final results of a CV duty expedited reviews. (See ITT's Online Archives or 11/13/02, 05/14/03, 05/22/02 and 02/04/04 news, 02111345, 03051430, 02052217 and 04020435 for BP summaries of the final results of CV duty expedited and new shipper reviews for other companies, and the CV duty order for softwood lumber from Canada.)
The International Trade Administration (ITA) has issued a notice stating that it is postponing until May 13, 2004 (from March 23, 2004) its preliminary antidumping (AD) duty determination on certain aluminum plate from South Africa.