The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Sept. 15 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department is amending a list of companies for which the review was rescinded in the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on certain pasta from Italy (A-475-818) covering the period July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021 (see 2208010055).
The Commerce Department issued the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on narrow woven ribbons with woven selvedge from China (C-570-953). Commerce will use the rates set in this review to set importer assessments on entries from the three companies under review for calendar year 2020. Effective Sept. 14, Commerce will require CV duty cash deposits from the companies under review as follows:
The Commerce Department will suspend liquidation and require antidumping and countervailing duty cash deposits on entries of certain stainless steel sheet and strip from China (A-570-042/C-570-043) that has undergone further processing in the Vietnam, it said in the preliminary results of an anti-circumvention inquiry. The agency made preliminary affirmative findings that stainless steel sheet and strip of Chinese-origin that has undergone further processing in Vietnam is merchandise covered by the scope of the AD/CVD orders and that stainless steel sheet and strip completed in Vietnam using certain non-subject stainless steel flat-rolled inputs of Chinese-origin is merchandise circumventing the orders.
Importer and exporter certifications to avoid antidumping and countervailing duties on plywood imports from Vietnam are now due Dec. 1, CBP said in a CSMS message released Sept. 13. The Commerce Department had one day earlier extended the original Sept. 12 deadline, which applies to plywood imported from Vietnam and entered June 17, 2020, through Aug. 28, 2022. The certifications are required under a preliminary determination of circumvention Commerce issued at the end of July (see 2208080012), in which it found plywood made from Chinese inputs under five production scenarios are either covered by the scope of the AD/CVD orders on Chinese hardwood plywood or circumventing them. Certifications are required for plywood not produced from Chinese inputs or under one of those production scenarios to claim Vietnamese origin.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Sept. 13 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 published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on frozen fish fillets from Vietnam (A-552-801). The agency continued to find, as in its preliminary results, that Hoa Phat Seafood Import-Export and Processing didn't establish its independence from Vietnamese government control, and assigned it to the Vietnam-wide entity with an AD rate of $2.39/kg. Importers of subject merchandise from Hoa Phat entered Aug. 1, 2020, through July 31, 2021, will be assessed AD duties at that $2.39/kg rate. The new $2.39/kg AD duty cash deposit rate takes effect for Hoa Phat Sept. 13.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Sept. 13 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Office of Foreign Assets Control issued preliminary guidance on the price cap for seaborne Russian oil and related maritime services policy. The G7 confirmed its joint intention for the cap at the Sept. 2 meeting of finance ministers (see 2209020034).
The Commerce Department on Sept. 12 released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on large power transformers from South Korea (A-580-867). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise for the five companies under review entered August 2020 through July 2021.