The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on large residential washers from Mexico (A-201-842). Commerce calculated an AD rate of 1.89% for the only company under review, Electrolux Home Products, Inc., and its affiliates Electrolux Home Products Corp. NV and Electrolux Home Products de Mexico, S.A. de C.V. In these final results, Commerce will set importer-specific rates for subject merchandise from Electrlux and its affiliates entered during the period Feb. 1, 2021, through Jan. 31, 2022. The new 1.89% AD cash deposit rate for Electrolux and its affiliates takes effect May 18, the date these final results are to be published in the Federal Register.
T-Mobile wants the U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco to stay or hold in abeyance its review of the California Public Utilities Commission’s USF contribution overhaul until the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals resolves the carrier’s appeal of the district court’s March 31 preliminary injunction denial, said T-Mobile’s motion Monday (docket 3:23-cv-00483). T-Mobile telegraphed its intentions to seek the stay, over the CPUC’s objections, in a joint case management statement May 4 (see 2305040077).
The Commerce Department is beginning new antidumping duty investigations on beltless steel shelving units prepackaged for sale from India, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam, it said in a fact sheet May 16. The underlying petition was filed April 24 (see 2304250077). The International Trade Commission is scheduled to make its preliminary injury determinations by June 9. 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 made preliminary affirmative antidumping determinations that paper file folders from China (A-570-147), India (A-533-910) and Vietnam (A-552-834) are being sold at less than fair value. The agency will impose antidumping duty cash requirements on entries of subject merchandise beginning on May 17, the scheduled publication date of these preliminary determinations in the Federal Register.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website May 15, 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 Commerce Department has released amended final results of the countervailing duty administrative review on steel racks from China (C-570-089). Commerce said the changes are "to correct the ministerial errors raised" in response to the final results published April 10. As a result of the change in calculation of the CVD rate for Nanjing Dongsheng Shelf Manufacturing Co., Ltd., the rate for non-selected companies also changes. The new rates are now 5.9%, down slightly from 6.09%.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website May 12, 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 Commerce Department released the amended final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from Mexico (A-201-836), to reflect a ministerial correction of its calculations for rates for entries of subject merchandise during the period Aug. 1, 2020, through July 31, 2021.
The Commerce Department will soon impose antidumping duty cash deposit requirements on imports of paper file folders from China, India and Vietnam, it said in a fact sheet issued May 11 announcing its preliminary determinations in the AD investigations. Commerce set an AD rate of 192.7% for all Chinese exporters, 324.7% for all Vietnamese exporters, and rates ranging from 15.07% to 86.01% for Indian exporters, it said. AD suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after the date of publication of the preliminary determinations in the Federal Register, which should occur in the coming days. Liquidation for India is already suspended and countervailing duty cash deposit requirements are in effect under a preliminary CVD determination issued in March (see 2303170013).
Commerce should not have excluded sales of certain cylinders sold by Sahamitr Pressure Container in its home market or used the average-to-transaction (A-T) price comparison method in its calculations, the Thai exporter said in a May 8 complaint to the Court of International Trade. SMPC asked the trade court to declare that Commerce's exclusion of certain cylinders from the calculation as out of scope, as well as and its use of the A-T price comparison method, was in error and to remand the results to Commerce (Sahamitr Pressure Container v. United States, CIT # 23-00077).