The Commerce Department intends to end antidumping duties on floor-standing, metal-top ironing tables from China (A-570-888), it said in the preliminary results of a changed circumstances review. Home Products International, the sole U.S. manufacturer of the ironing tables and the original requestor of the duties, recently requested the revocation of the AD duty order. If Commerce decides to revoke the order in the final results of its changed circumstances review, the effective date of revocation would be the publication of the final results in the Federal Register, it said.
The high price of fertilizers is a bigger emergency than the cost of solar panels, argued Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., and six other Republican senators and U.S. Representative Tracey Mann, R-Kan., and 23 other Republican House members in a letter asking President Joe Biden to intervene in antidumping and countervailing duty cases on phosphate fertilizer from Morocco and a preliminary decision on a trade remedy case on urea ammonium nitrate fertilizer from Trinidad and Tobago.
The Commerce Department on July 14 released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on uncoated paper from Portugal (A-471-807). Commerce calculated an AD rate of 5.81% for The Navigator Company, S.A., the only company under review. Commerce will assess AD duties at importer-specific rates for subject merchandise from The Navigator Company entered March 1, 2020, through Feb. 28, 2021, it said. The new 5.81% AD duty cash deposit rate for The Navigator Company takes effect July 15, the date that these final results are scheduled for publication in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices July 13 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register July 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 will consider imposing antidumping and countervailing duties on imports of aluminum foil from South Korea and Thailand, according to a pre-publication notice released by the agency announcing the beginning of anti-circumvention inquiries covering the two countries.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register July 12 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 looks set to recognize the corporate reorganization of a South Korean company for the purposes of antidumping duties on several steel products from South Korea: non-oriented electrical steel (A-580-872), certain corrosion-resistant steel products (A-580-878), certain cold-rolled steel flat products (A-580-881), certain hot-rolled steel flat products (A-580-883), certain carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate (A-580-887), and carbon and alloy steel wire rod (A-580-891). The agency preliminarily found the reorganized POSCO to be the successor-in-interest to the pre-reorganization entity, in the preliminary results of a changed circumstances review. The agency preliminarily found POSCO continues to operate as the same business entity despite the reorganization, which included the creation of a new parent entity POSCO Holdings. If Commerce confirms its finding in the final results, the reorganized POSCO may inherit the AD duty rates assigned to POSCO in the various AD reviews.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices July 12 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department on July 12 released the final results of the countervailing duty administrative review on fine denier polyester staple fiber from India (C-533-876). Commerce assigned the only company under review, Reliance Industries Ltd., a CV rate of 6.88%, slightly higher than the rate in the preliminary results of this review. Commerce will set final assessments of CV duties on importers for subject merchandise from Reliance entered Jan. 1, 2020, through Dec. 31, 2020. The new 6.88% CV duty cash deposit rate takes effect for entries from Reliance on or after July 13, the date these results are set to be published in the Federal Register.