Wood flooring produced and exported by Yuhua but sold through the company’s sales agent A-Timber falls under Yuhua’s exemption from antidumping duties on multilayered wood flooring from China (A-570-970), the Commerce Department said in the final results of a changed circumstances review. Though CBP began suspending liquidation and collecting cash deposits on wood flooring Yuhua sold through A-Timber beginning in 2020, Commerce said it already considered A-Timber’s role when it granted Yuhua a zero percent AD duty rate in its 2011 AD investigation, and found that circumstances have not changed since.
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from China (A-570-914). The agency assigned the only company under review, Hangzhou Ailong Metal Products Co., Ltd., an AD rate of 45.02%. If these preliminary results are adopted unchanged, Commerce will in its final results assess AD duties at importer-specific rates for importers of subject merchandise from Ailong entered Aug. 1, 2020, through July 31, 2021. A cash deposit rate of 45.02% would take effect for Ailong upon publication of the final results in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Sept. 8 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department properly stuck by its decision to issue questionnaires in lieu of on-site verification due to the COVID-19-related travel restrictions on remand at the Court of International, the agency argued in a Sept. 6 brief filed to the Court of International Trade. During the remand, Commerce took a new agency action by finding that the questionnaire responses constituted verification -- a move it says was not only legal but justified since the antidumping duty respondent, Shakti Forge Industries, gave an amount of information that typically exceeds that found in other investigations, and the information corroborated and verified information that Shakti previously submitted (Bonney Forge Corporation v. United States, CIT #20-03837).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Sept. 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 released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from Mexico (A-201-836). Rates calculated in this review will be used to set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise fromfour producers and exporters that was entered Aug. 1, 2020, through July 31, 2021.
The Commerce Department released the preliminary results of its antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews of finished carbon steel flanges from India (A-533-871/C-533-872). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set AD assessment rates for subject merchandise for the companies under review entered Aug. 1, 2020, through July 31, 2021, and CVD assessment rates for entries Jan. 1, 2020, through Dec. 31, 2020.
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on passenger vehicle and light truck tires from China (A-570-016/C-570-017). In the final results of these reviews, Commerce will set AD duty assessment rates for subject merchandise for the companies under review entered Aug. 1, 2020, through July 31, 2021, and CV duty assessment rates for entries Jan. 1, 2020, through Dec. 31, 2020.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on stainless steel bar from India (A-533-810). Set for publication in the Sept. 8 Federal Register, these final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise from companies under review entered Feb. 1, 2020, through Jan. 31, 2021.
The Commerce Department released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on cased pencils from China (A-570-827). Commerce said it continued to find that Tianjin Tonghe Stationery Co., Ltd. and Ningbo Homey Union Co., Ltd., did not demonstrate independence from state control, assigning them to the China-wide AD duty rate of 114.9%. Commerce will assess AD duties at this rate on subject merchandise from Tianjin Tonghe and Ningbo Homey entered Dec. 1, 2020, through Nov. 30, 2021. A 114.9% AD duty cash deposit rate for Tianjin Tonghe and Ningbo Homey takes effect for each company on Sept. 8.