The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on low-melt polyester staple fiber from South Korea (A-580-895). Commerce set an AD rate of 1.97% for Toray Advanced Materials Korea, Inc., the only company under review. Subject merchandise from Toray entered Aug. 1, 2020, through July 31, 2021, will be liquidated at importer-specific rates. The 1.97% AD duty cash deposit rate for Toray, slightly increased from the preliminary rate, takes effect March 8, the date the final results will be published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on strontium chromate from France (A-427-830). Commerce set an AD rate of 2.04% for Société Nouvelle des Couleurs Zinciques, the only company under review. Commerce will calculate importer-specific rates for subject merchandise from SNCZ entered Nov. 1, 2020, through Oct. 31, 2021, it said. The new AD duty cash deposit rate for SNCZ takes effect March 8, the date of publication of these final results in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices March 7 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Though “cloaked in the garb" of protecting children’s privacy, California’s age-appropriate social media design law (AB-2273) “is in reality a broad and unconstitutional attempt to restrict speech and control the information that can be provided to minors.” So said CCIA’s amicus brief Friday (docket 5:22-cv-08861) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose in support of NetChoice’s motion for a preliminary injunction to block the law from taking effect in July 2024 (see 2212140063).
Level the Playing Field Act 2.0, a bill that would rewrite antidumping and countervailing duty laws, has found a Republican co-sponsor after the retirement of the Republican co-sponsor on the bipartisan bill introduced in 2021 (see 2104160037).
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on frozen warmwater shrimp from Thailand (A-549-822). The agency preliminarily calculated an AD duty rate of zero percent for the only company under review, Thai Union. Any changes to Thai Union's cash deposit rate would take effect on the date of Federal Register publication of the final results of this review. Once Commerce issues its final results, the agency will assess AD duties at importer-specific rates for entries of subject merchandise from Thai Union entered Feb. 1, 2021, through Jan. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on wood mouldings and millwork from China (A-570-117/C-570-118). In the final results of these reviews, Commerce will set AD assessment rates for subject merchandise for the companies under review entered Aug. 12, 2020, through Jan. 31, 2022, and CVD assessment rates for entries June 12, 2020, through Dec. 31, 2021.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on small diameter graphite electrodes from China (A-570-929), calculating a 24.95% AD rate for Fushan Jinly Petrochemical Co., Ltd., the only company remaining under review. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from Foshan Jinly entered between Feb. 1, 2021, and Jan. 31, 2022, will be assessed AD duties at importer-specific rates. A new 24.95% AD cash deposit rate would take effect upon publication of the final results in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on stainless steel bar from India (A-533-810). In the final results of this review, Commerce may set assessment rates for subject merchandise from four companies entered Feb. 1, 2021, through Jan. 31, 2022. It has preliminarily determined that there is no dumping by the companies under review.
The Commerce Department intends to create new exemptions from antidumping and countervailing duties on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into modules, from China (A-570-979/C-570-980) and crystalline silicon photovoltaic products from China (A-570-010/C-570-011), it said in the preliminary results of two changed circumstances reviews released March 6. Commerce said "substantially all" U.S. producers of solar cells, including the American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing, a domestic industry coalition, do not oppose Hello Tech's requests to create the exemptions.