The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Aug. 12 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate from Germany (A-428-844). The agency calculated a zero percent AD rate for AG der Dillinger Huttenwerke. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from Dillinger entered May 1, 2023, through April 30, 2024, won't be assessed AD, and future entries from Dillinger wouldn't be subject to an AD cash deposit requirement until further notice. Any changes to rates for Dillinger would take effect on the date of publication in the Federal Register of the final results of this review.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday overturned a district court decision to block the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) access to sensitive data at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Education Department. A consumer advocate panned the decision.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on wooden cabinets and vanities from China (A-570-106). The administrative review now covers 21 companies, including two mandatory respondents, that remain out of 70 after Commerce rescinded the review for 49 companies with no reviewable, suspended entries or for which a review request was timely withdrawn (see Appendix IV of the notice).
The U.S. "myopically" focused on a "single piece of evidence" regarding the proper date of sale of exporter Toyo Kohan's U.S. sales in the 2022-23 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on diffusion-annealed nickel-plate flat-rolled steel from Japan, Toyo Kohan argued in an Aug. 8 reply brief at the Court of International Trade. The government's brief centered on a statement in the exporter's questionnaire responses and the "price of a single example sales transaction" and says this focus is "reasonable," yet it's unreasonable to "ignore the second example in the same exhibit" that shows a price change, the brief said (Toyo Kohan Co. v. United States, CIT # 24-00261).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Aug. 11 on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CVD rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping duty and countervailing duty investigations on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into modules, from India, Indonesia and Laos (A-533-942/C-533-943, A-560-846/C-560-847, A-553-003/C-553-004). The AD investigations cover entries July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025. The CVD investigations cover entries in calendar year 2024.
The Commerce Department is beginning an anti-circumvention inquiry to determine whether all imports of steel wire garment hangers from Cambodia made from Chinese or Vietnamese steel wire are circumventing antidumping duties and countervailing duties on steel wire garment hangers from Vietnam (A-552-812/C-552-813) and an AD order on steel wire garment hangers from China (A-570-918), it said in a notice to be published Aug. 12.
The Commerce Department issued its final determination in the antidumping duty investigation on paper file folders from Sri Lanka (A-542-806). The agency made no changes from its preliminary determination, and suspension of liquidation and AD cash deposit requirements remain in effect for entries on or after May 29.
The Commerce Department said it neglected to mention in the June 16 published final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from Mexico (A-201-836) for subject merchandise entered Aug. 1, 2022, through July 31, 2023, that it did, indeed rescind the review for 11 companies, as it said in the preliminary results that it intended to do (see 2409170032). Commerce said that is the only change reflected in its amended final results notice to be published Aug. 12 in the Federal Register.