Pipes and tubes made in Vietnam from hot-rolled steel produced in China, India, South Korea and Taiwan are circumventing antidumping and countervailing duty orders on a variety of pipe and tube products from the four countries, the Commerce Department said in final determinations in six anti-circumvention inquiries.
Antidumping duty respondent Assan Aluminyum Sanayi ve Ticaret filed a second notice of supplemental authorities in its AD case at the Court of International Trade to point to a separate AD review involving a duty drawback adjustment and Commerce's requirement that only closed inward processing certificates be included in the numerator of Commerce's per unit calculation (Assan Aluminyum Sanayi ve Ticaret v. U.S., CIT Consol. # 21-00616).
The Commerce Department failed to adjust the export price for Chinese exporter Trina Solar and continued to use the "unreliable" price of Romanian glass over Trina's objections, the exporter argued in a Nov. 6 complaint to the Court of International Trade (Trina Solar v. U.S., CIT # 23-00213).
The Republican attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, plus their four individual social media user co-plaintiff-respondents in Missouri v. Biden, oppose Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his two co-plaintiffs' Oct. 26 motion in Kennedy v. Biden to intervene in the U.S. Supreme Court’s review of the social media injunction against the White House and four federal agencies, said their responding brief Monday (docket 23-411).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Nov. 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 its antidumping duty administrative review on stainless steel flanges from India (A-533-877). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise for the companies under review entered Oct. 1, 2021, through Sept. 30, 2022.
The Commerce Department is beginning a new antidumping duty investigation on truck and bus tires from Thailand, it said in a fact sheet Nov. 7. The underlying petition was filed in October (see 2310180049). The International Trade Commission is scheduled to make its preliminary injury determinations by Dec. 1. These AD/CVD investigations will continue only if the ITC finds injury. International Trade Today will provide more details upon publication of the initiation notices in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on phosphate fertilizers from Morocco (C-714-001). The agency calculated a CVD rate of 2.12% for the only company under review, OCP S.A., substantially lower than the rate calculated in the preliminary results, i.e., 14.49%. These final results will be used to set final assessments of CVD on importers for subject merchandise entered during the period of review Nov. 30, 2020, through Dec. 31, 2021. A new 2.12% CVD cash deposit rate for OCP is effective Nov. 7, the date these final results were published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Nov. 7 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department has released the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on common alloy aluminum sheet from India (C-533-896). It said it made no changes to its preliminary results of this review, in which it calculated a rate of 32.43% for Hindalco Industries Limited and its affiliate Utkal Alumina International Limited. The new CVD cash deposit rate for Hindalco and its affiliate takes effect Nov. 6, the date the results were published in the Federal Register. The rate will also be used to set final assessments of CVD on importers for subject merchandise entered during the period Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2021. For assessments for entries from Hindalco and its affiliate during the period Aug. 14, 2020, through Dec. 31, 2020, Commerce calculated a CVD rate of 37.9%.