The Commerce Department made preliminary affirmative antidumping determinations that lemon juice from Brazil (A-351-858) and South Africa (A-791-827) are being sold at less than fair value. The agency imposed AD duty cash requirements on entries of subject merchandise beginning on Aug. 4, the publication date of these preliminary determinations in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on polyethylene terephthalate film, sheet, and strip (PET film) from India (A-533-824). Rates calculated in this review will be used to set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise from two producers and exporters that was entered July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021.
Importers of hardwood plywood from Vietnam must now either certify the merchandise was not assembled from certain Chinese inputs or else pay antidumping and countervailing duties under the orders on hardwood plywood from China (A-570-051/C-570-052), the Commerce Department said in preliminary scope and circumvention determinations issued July 29.
The Commerce Department published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on xanthan gum from China (A-570-985). In the final results of this review, Commerce may set assessment rates for subject merchandise from the companies under review that was entered July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021.
Wood flooring produced and exported by Yuhua but sold through the company’s sales agent A-Timber likely falls under Yuhua’s exemption from antidumping duties on multilayered wood flooring from China (A-570-970), the Commerce Department said in the preliminary 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 preliminarily found circumstances have not changed since.
The Commerce Department published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on hardwood plywood products from China (A-570-051). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered during calendar year 2020. New cash deposit rates set in these final results take effect Aug. 8.
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its countervailing duty administrative review on certain collated steel staples from China (C-570-113). The agency preliminarily calculated a new CV duty rate for the Tianjin Hweschun Fasteners Mfg. Co. Ltd., the only company that participated in the review. The final results of this review will be used to set CV duty assessments on importers for subject merchandise entered during the period Nov. 12, 2019, through Dec. 31, 2020.
The Commerce Department published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on certain collated steel staples from China (A-570-112). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise from six companies under review entered Jan. 8, 2020, through June 30, 2021.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Aug. 8 on AD/CVD proceedings:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website Aug. 5, 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.