The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate from South Korea (A-580-887). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise from the companies under review entered May 1, 2020, through April 30, 2021. Commerce said it made several changes to the calculation used in the preliminary results for the lone mandatory respondent POSCO (as a single entity, including affiliates), which reduced the AD rate slightly from 2.8%.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Oct. 11 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):
A Chicago entity, Rongstar Digital, sells counterfeit Bose goods to consumers through the DH Electronics online store on the eBay marketplace, alleged a Sept. 30 complaint (docket 2:22-cv-07110) in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. The goods it sells on eBay are neither made by Bose nor by a Bose-authorized manufacturer and use “reproductions, counterfeits, copies and/or colorable imitations,” it said. Customs and Border Protection in December 2021 intercepted and seized 264 units of counterfeit Bose earbuds and earphones imported from Hong Kong to Rongstar at an address in Chicago, it said. Rongstar responded to the seizure by giving CBP a fake manufacturer authorization form. Bose seeks a preliminary injunction to shut down Rongstar’s wrongful practices, plus statutory damages and restitution for lost profits. Rongstar didn’t comment.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Oct. 11 on AD/CVD proceedings:
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday initiating finalization of a new cross-border data agreement with the EU. Industry applauded the EO, but advocates say the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) doesn’t resolve outstanding data privacy issues that led the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to invalidate the previous two agreements.
The Commerce Department released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on circular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Thailand (A-549-502). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered March 1, 2020, through Feb. 28, 2021.
The Commerce Department released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on cold-rolled steel flat products from South Korea (A-580-881). The agency preliminarily calculated a zero percent AD duty rate for all three companies under review -- Hyundai Steel Company; POSCO/POSCO International Corporation; and KG Dongbu Steel Co., Ltd. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from Hyundai, POSCO and KG Dongbu entered Sept. 1, 2020, through Aug. 31, 2021, will not be assessed AD duties, and future entries from these three companies will not be subject to an AD cash deposit requirement until further notice. Any changes to their cash deposit rates would take effect on the date of publication in the Federal Register of the final results of this review, which are due in February.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on polyethylene terephthalate film, sheet and strip from Oman (A-523-813), calculating a 4.16% AD rate for lone respondent OCTAL SAOC-FZC. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from OCTAL entered between March 3, 2020, and Aug. 31, 2021, will be assessed AD duties at importer-specific rates. Any changes to cash deposit rates for OCTAL would take effect upon publication of the final results of this review in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Oct. 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 and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Oct. 7 on AD/CVD proceedings: