The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on heavy walled rectangular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from South Korea (A-580-880).
The Commerce Department issued the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on cut-to-length carbon-quality steel plate from South Korea (C-580-837). The agency calculated new CV duty cash deposit rates of zero percent for two South Korean companies, a change from the preliminary results that had one of the companies above de minimis. These final results will be used to set final assessments of CV duties on importers for entries in calendar year 2020.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on steel nails from China (A-570-909). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered Aug. 1, 2020, through July 31, 2021.
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on hydrofluorocarbon blends from China (A-570-028). The agency said the companies for which a review was requested but which did not respond to the request also did not demonstrate independence from Chinese government control, and they preliminarily were assigned to the China-wide entity with an AD rate of 216.37%. See the notice for the list of these companies.
The Commerce Department erred when it continued to rely on adverse facts available despite a remand order invalidating the agency’s original reasoning for the AFA rate, Cabinets To Go (CTG), a U.S. retail chain, said in its Aug. 29 comments filed to the Court of International Trade. CTG intervened in the challenge to a final determination from Commerce’s antidumping duty investigation on wooden cabinets and vanities from China (Dalian Meisen Woodworking v. U.S., CIT # 20-00109) because the calculated rates of its own suppliers were based on AFA rates for Meisen.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Aug. 30-31 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Consumer intentions on buying new TV sets increased in August from July, according to preliminary Conference Board data released Tuesday. Analytics company Toluna canvassed 5,000 U.S. homes online through Aug. 23, finding 11.2% plan to buy a new TV set in the next six months, said the board. That was up from 10.9% in July, 10.4% in June and 10.4% in August 2021, it said. Consumer confidence increased in August after three straight monthly declines, said the board. “Concerns about inflation continued their retreat but remained elevated” in August, it said. The improvement in confidence “may help support spending,” but inflation and additional Federal Reserve rate hikes “still pose risks to economic growth in the short term,” it said.
The FTC sued an Idaho data-marketing company Monday for allegedly buying and selling “geolocation data from hundreds of millions of mobile devices” that can be used to track individuals to and from “sensitive locations” like reproductive health clinics.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Aug. 30 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 FTC sued an Idaho data-marketing company Monday for allegedly buying and selling “geolocation data from hundreds of millions of mobile devices” that can be used to track individuals to and from “sensitive locations” like reproductive health clinics.