The Commerce Department is beginning an inquiry to determine whether various types of pipes and tubes made in Vietnam from hot-rolled steel produced in China, South Korea, India and Taiwan are circumventing antidumping and countervailing duty orders that would apply if the merchandise was produced and exported from those four countries, it said in a recent notice.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Aug. 8 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Department of Commerce erred in finding that critical circumstances existed in an antidumping and countervailing duty investigation concerning raw honey from Vietnam, argued the National Honey Packers and Dealers Association in an Aug. 5 complaint to the Court of International Trade (National Honey Packers & Dealers Association v. U.S., CIT #22-00194, -00195).
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website Aug. 8, 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.
About quarter of the comments on how to implement an executive order on possible anti-circumvention duties on solar panel and cell imports say that the executive order is illegal or, at best, legally strained, and that Commerce cannot waive duty collections because that is contrary to its mission to protect domestic manufacturing through trade remedies.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Aug. 8 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 preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on steel concrete reinforcing bar from Turkey (A-489-829). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise for the seven companies under review entered July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021.
The Commerce Department published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on prestressed concrete steel wire strand from Thailand (A-549-820). Commerce continued its preliminary assignment of a 0.98% AD rate for the only company under review, The Siam Industrial Wire Co., Ltd. (SIW). Subject merchandise from SIW entered Jan. 1, 2020, through Dec. 31, 2020, will be liquidated at importer-specific rates. The new 0.98% cash deposit rate for SIW takes effect Aug. 8.
The Commerce Department published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on corrosion-resistant steel products from Taiwan (A-583-856). Rates calculated in this review will be used to set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise from eight producers and exporters that was entered July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021
The Commerce Department made preliminary affirmative antidumping determinations that steel nails from India (A-533-904), Thailand (A-549-844) and Turkey (A-489-846) are being sold at less than fair value. The agency will impose AD duty cash requirements on entries of subject merchandise beginning on Aug. 4, the publication date of these preliminary determinations in the Federal Register.