A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website June 10-13, 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 ADD CVD Search page.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register June 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 and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices June 13 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on steel nails from Taiwan (A-583-854). Rates calculated in this review will be used to set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise from 69 exporters remaining in the review that was entered July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021.
The Commerce Department looks set to recognize a name change for a Belgian company for the purposes of antidumping duties on citric acid and certain citrate salts from Belgium (A-423-813). The agency preliminarily found Citribel nv to be the successor-in-interest to S.A. Citrique Belge N.V., in the preliminary results of a changed circumstances review. The agency preliminarily found Citribel continues to operate as the same business entity other than the change in name. If Commerce confirms its finding in the final results, Citribel may inherit the AD duty rate assigned to Citrique Belge, currently zero percent.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of its antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on forged steel fittings from China (A-570-067/C-570-068). The agency calculated a zero percent AD duty rate, and a CV duty rate of 13.48% for Both-Well (Taizhou) Steel Fittings Co., Ltd., the only company remaining under review in both proceedings. Commerce will not assess AD duties on subject merchandise from Both-Well entered Nov. 1, 2019, through Oct. 31, 2020, and will use the rate set in this review to assess CV duties on importers of subject merchandise from Both-Well during calendar year 2019. A zero percent AD duty cash deposit rate and a 13.48% CV duty cash deposit rate for Both-Well take effect June 10, the date these final results were published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department issued antidumping duty orders on raw honey from Argentina (A-357-823), Brazil (A-351-857), India (A-533-903) and Vietnam (A-552-833). The orders detail a “gap period” of May 22 - June 2, 2022, of no AD duty liability.
The Court of International Trade in a June 9 opinion denied Indian exporter Gujarat Fluorochemicals Limited's (GFL's) bid for injunctive relief against liquidation and paying cash deposits from a countervailing duty investigation. Judge Timothy Stanceu ruled that the plaintiff failed to show that it would likely face harm without the preliminary injunction since the company failed to show that future refunds of excess cash deposits would be an "inadequate remedy." As for the injunction on liquidation, the court said that there's no draft order in "satisfactory form" that could allow the court to issue the standard injunction against liquidation. However, Stanceu gave the plaintiff 30 days to renew the injunction bid.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register June 9 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 a name change for a Chinese company for the purposes of antidumping duties on certain vertical shaft engines between 225cc and 999cc, and parts thereof, from China (A-570-119). The agency preliminarily found Honda Power Products (China) Co., Ltd. to be the successor-in-interest to Jialing-Honda Motors Co., Ltd., in the preliminary results of a changed circumstances review. The agency preliminarily found Honda continues to operate as the same business entity other than the change in name. If Commerce confirms its finding in the final results, Honda may inherit the AD duty rate assigned to Jialing, currently 261.93%. (See 2202180063 for information about the initiation of this changed circumstances review.)