A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Dec. 7, 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 FTC's appeal of the district court’s July 11 denial of its motion for a preliminary injunction to block Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard buy (see 2307110031) “is every bit about the right process for merger review as it is about the denial of relief,” FTC attorney Imad Abyad told the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in oral argument Wednesday.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Dec. 7 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 a countervailing duty administrative review of steel concrete reinforcing bar from Turkey (C-489-819). Commerce will assess CV duties on importers at the rates determined in the final results of this review for subject merchandise entered during the period Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2021.
The Commerce Department on Dec. 7 published the preliminary results of its antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on aluminum foil from Turkey (A-489-844/C-489-845). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set AD assessment rates for subject merchandise for the companies under review entered Sept. 23, 2021, through Oct. 31, 2022, and CV duty assessment rates for entries March 5, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2021.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on welded stainless pressure pipe from India (A-533-867). Rates calculated in this review will be used to set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise from 21 producers and exporters that was entered Nov. 1, 2021, through Oct. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on fresh garlic from China (A-570-831). The agency preliminarily said the only company remaining under review, Jining Huahui International Co., Ltd., had no bona fide exports of subject merchandise to the U.S. during the period under review. If Commerce's “no shipments” finding for Jining Huahui is continued in the final results, subject merchandise from the company will continue to enter at AD rates previously in effect, and any entries filed with Jining Huahui's case number entered Nov. 1, 2021, through Oct. 31, 2022, will be liquidated at the China-wide rate. Commerce will make its final decision when it issues the final results of this review, currently due in April.
The Commerce Department published the preliminary results of a countervailing duty administrative review on chlorinated isocyanurates from China (C-570-991). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise from two of the three exporters under review that was entered Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2021.
More than 50 agriculture interests, led by the National Corn Growers Association, asked the International Trade Commission to reconsider the impact of weather in 2019 when examining the phosphate purchases and import patterns of farmers, as the Court of International Trade instructed it to (see 2309190060). Flooding along the Mississippi River led to shipment problems for fertilizer, as well as fields that couldn't be planted.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Dec. 7 on AD/CVD proceedings: