The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Sept. 19 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 has issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on diffusion-annealed, nickel-plated flat-rolled steel products from Japan (A-588-869). Commerce set an AD rate of 1.92% for Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd., the only company under review, unchanged from the preliminary results. Commerce will assess AD duties on importers at importer-specific rates for subject merchandise from Toyo Kohan entered May 1, 2020, through April 30, 2021, it said. The new AD duty cash deposit rate for Toyo Kohan takes effect Sept. 20, the scheduled publication date of these final results in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Sept. 19 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The FCC International Bureau asked for comment by Sept. 26 on various positions adopted Sept. 12 by the World Radiocommunication Conference Advisory Committee, NTIA draft preliminary proposals and a proposal by Lockheed Martin for a future agenda item on lunar and cislunar communications (see 2209120047). “Based upon an initial review of the draft recommendations forwarded to the Commission, the International Bureau, in coordination with other Commission Bureaus and Offices, tentatively concludes that we can generally support most of the content found in attachment in the WRC-23 Advisory Committee draft recommendation,” said a Friday notice. The bureau noted the lunar proposal isn’t a WAC recommendation, though the group asked the FCC to seek comment.
The Commerce Department is finalizing a two-year waiver from antidumping and countervailing duties for solar cells and modules from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam that are subject to ongoing anticircumvention inquiries. The agency’s Sept. 16 final rule mandates that no suspension of liquidation, cash deposit requirements or AD/CV duty assessments will apply until June 6, 2024, in the event that Commerce finds circumvention of Chinese solar cells duties, though the grace period could be terminated earlier, and the solar cells must now be used within a certain period to qualify.
The EU's parliament is considering a proposal to ban goods made with forced labor from entering into commerce, as was reported before it was officially announced (see 2209120063). EU customs authorities will aim to stop products made with forced labor at EU borders. A FAQ about the proposal, which would have to pass both the parliament and the European Council, says the customs agents would take a "robust, risk-based enforcement approach. In a preliminary phase, they will assess forced labour risks based on many different sources of information that together should facilitate the identification of risks and help focus their efforts. These may include submissions from civil society, a database of forced labour risks focusing on specific products and geographic areas, and the due diligence that companies carry out."
The Commerce Department released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on oil country tubular goods from Ukraine (A-823-815). The agency preliminarily calculated a 1.59% AD duty rate for the related companies Interpipe Europe S.A./Interpipe Ukraine LLC, PJSC Interpipe Niznedneprovsky Tube Rolling Plant and Interpipe Niko Tube LLC. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from Interpipe entered July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021, will be assessed AD duties at importer-specific rates. Any changes to rates for Interpipe would take effect on the date of publication in the Federal Register of the final results of this review, due in January 2023.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website Sept. 14-15, 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 is finalizing a two-year waiver from antidumping and countervailing duties for solar cells and modules from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam that are subject to ongoing anticircumvention inquiries. The agency’s Sept. 16 final rule mandates that no suspension of liquidation, cash deposit requirements or AD/CV duty assessments will apply until June 6, 2024, in the event that Commerce finds circumvention of Chinese solar cells duties, though the grace period could be terminated earlier, and the solar cells must now be used within a certain period to qualify.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Sept. 15 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):