The Commerce Department made preliminary affirmative antidumping duty determinations that imports of tin mill products from Canada (A-122-869), Germany (A-428-851) and China (A-570-150) are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The agency will impose AD cash requirements retroactively on entries of subject merchandise from China beginning May 24, 2023. For Canadian and German exporters, suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements take effect Aug. 22, 2023.
Antidumping and countervailing duties on solar cells and modules from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam are now set to take effect in June 2024, after the Commerce Department continued to find in final determinations announced Aug. 18 that imports from the four Southeast Asian countries are circumventing AD/CVD on solar cells from China (A-570-979/C-570-980).
The Commerce Department has continued its preliminary determination that a Canadian company is the successor-in-interest to another for the purposes of antidumping duties on certain softwood lumber products from Canada (A-122-857). Commerce said it continues to find that GreenFirst Forest Products (QC) Inc. (GreenFirst QC) is the successor-in-interest to Rayonier A.M. Canada G.P. (RYAM), in the final results of a changed circumstances review to be published in the Aug. 21 Federal Register. Subject merchandise produced and/or exported by GreenFirst QC -- the company that requested the review-- will be assigned the same AD cash deposit rate as the AD cash deposit rate established for subject merchandise exported by RYAM in the most recently completed administrative review of the AD order, which is 6.2%. The new cash deposit rate will be effective Aug. 21 and remain in effect until further notice.
“Partial input foreclosure,” such as if Microsoft were to curtail the flow of Activision Blizzard video game titles to competing console platforms if its Activision buy closes, but without cutting off supply completely, “is harmful to competition,” said 18 antitrust law professors in an amicus brief Wednesday (docket 23-15992) supporting the FTC’s appeal to block the transaction (see 2307110031).
The Commerce Department on Aug. 18 announced its final determination that imports of solar cells and modules from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam are circumventing antidumping and countervailing duties on solar cells from China. The agency made minor changes from its preliminary determination, finding Cambodia’s New East Solar circumvented duties and excluding it from the certification process for duty exemptions, as well as excluding Vietnam’s Vina from the certification process but making VSUN eligible.
Antidumping and countervailing duties on solar cells and modules from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam are now set to take effect in June 2024, after the Commerce Department continued to find in final determinations announced Aug. 18 that imports from the four Southeast Asian countries are circumventing AD/CVD on solar cells from China (A-570-979/C-570-980).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Aug. 17 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 will soon impose antidumping duty cash deposit requirements on imports of tin mill products from Canada, China and Germany, but will not at this time suspend liquidation or set duties on tin mill products from another five countries under investigation. The agency found no dumping of tin mill products from South Korea, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Turkey and the U.K. in preliminary determinations announced Aug. 17, it said in a fact sheet. If it continues to find no dumping in its final determinations, the agency will not issue AD orders for those countries.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Aug. 17 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Court of International Trade on Aug. 16 denied a motion by importer Wanxiang America to dismiss a penalty case related to its alleged misclassification and failure to pay associated antidumping duties on tapered roller bearings.