Suspension of liquidation and countervailing duty cash deposit requirements take effect June 7 for imports of steel nails from India, Oman, Sri Lanka and Turkey (C-533-905, C-523-817, C-542-805, C-489-847), after the Commerce Department found illegal subsidization in preliminary determinations in its ongoing CV duty investigations.
Senate Commerce Committee ranking member Roger Wicker, R-Miss.; House Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, D-N.J.; and panel ranking member Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., floated a discussion draft Friday of the American Data Privacy and Protection Act in a bid to advance compromise tech-focused privacy legislation before the end of this Congress. The proposal’s chances of advancing before the end of the year could be hampered by a rapidly closing legislative window and a lack of buy-in from Senate Commerce Chair Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., lobbyists and officials told us.
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on welded carbon steel standard pipe and tube products from Turkey (A-489-501). In the final results of this review, Commerce may set assessment rates for subject merchandise from the companies under review entered May 2020 through April 2021.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on diffusion-annealed, nickel-plated flat-rolled steel products from Japan (A-588-869). Rates calculated in this review will be used to set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise from the only producer/exporter under review, Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd., that was entered May 1, 2020, through April 30, 2021.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate from Italy (A-475-834). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise for the 11 companies under review entered May 1, 2020, through April 30, 2021.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register June 6 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 released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on certain carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate from Belgium (A-423-812). Rates calculated in this review will be used to set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise from one remaining exporter, Industeel Belgiujm, that was entered May 1, 2020, through April 30, 2021.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices June 6 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Antidumping duty petitioner Nucor Corp.'s standards for quantitative data over a level of trade (LOT) adjustment misrepresent the Commerce Department's requirements for quantitative data, AD respondent Productos Laminados de Monterrey (Prolamsa) argued in a reply brief at the Court of International Trade. Nothing on the record suggests that Prolamsa's evidence was "incapable of being verified," the brief said (Productos Laminados de Monterrey S.A. de C.V. v. U.S., CIT #20-00166).
Senate Commerce Committee ranking member Roger Wicker, R-Miss.; House Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, D-N.J.; and panel ranking member Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., floated a discussion draft Friday of the American Data Privacy and Protection Act in a bid to advance compromise tech-focused privacy legislation before the end of this Congress. The proposal’s chances of advancing before the end of the year could be hampered by a rapidly closing legislative window and a lack of buy-in from Senate Commerce Chair Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., lobbyists and officials told us.