The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices April 27 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told a senator who is opposed to the tariffs on imported solar panels that she cannot do much to speed up the anti-circumvention investigation on panels from Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia (see 2204050052).
Consumer intentions to buy new TV sets jumped slightly in April compared with March, according to preliminary Conference Board data released Tuesday. Analytics firm Toluna canvassed 5,000 U.S. homes for the board through April 19, finding 11.3% plan to buy new TV sets in the next six months, up from 11% in March and 11% in February but down slightly from 11.6% in April 2021. Consumer confidence dipped slightly in April after rising in March, said the board: “Concerns about inflation retreated from an all-time high in March but remained elevated. ... Inflation and the war in Ukraine will continue to pose downside risks to confidence and may further curb consumer spending this year.”
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of the antidumping duty administrative review on stilbenic optical brightening agents from Taiwan (A-583-848). Commerce preliminarily calculated an AD rate of 12.02% for Teh Fong Ming International Co., Ltd. (TFM). Any changes to TFM's cash deposit rate would take effect on the publication date of the final results of this review. Once Commerce issues its final results, the agency will assess AD duties at importer-specific rates for entries of subject merchandise from TFM entered between May 1, 2020, and April 30, 2021, it said.
The Commerce Department issued a Federal Register notice on its recently initiated antidumping duty investigations on preserved mushrooms from France (A-427-833), the Netherlands (A-421-815), Poland (A-455-806) and Spain (A-469-825). The agency will determine whether imports of preserved mushrooms are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The investigations cover entries during the period Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2021.
The Commerce Department issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on white grape juice concentrate from Argentina (A-357-825/C-357-826). Both the AD and CV duty investigations cover entries Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2021.
An eleventh-hour amendment won’t help Florida overcome constitutional problems with its law making it illegal for social media sites to deplatform political candidates and requiring them to be transparent about policing, and could even help tech industry challengers' case, opponents of the law said Monday.
An eleventh-hour amendment won’t help Florida overcome constitutional problems with its law making it illegal for social media sites to deplatform political candidates and requiring them to be transparent about policing, and could even help tech industry challengers' case, opponents of the law said Monday.
The Commerce Department properly modified the scope of its antidumping duty and countervailing duty investigations on quartz surface products from China in response to evidence of evasion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said in an April 25 opinion. Building materials company Bruskin International argued against Commerce's decision to accept the petitioner's scope request, telling the court the agency should have treated it as a request to amend the petition. But Judges Todd Hughes, Haldane Mayer and Kara Stoll ruled that Commerce was not bound to the preliminary scope and that it properly found the scope to be defective due to evidence of evasion.
The Commerce Department is beginning new antidumping duty investigations on preserved mushrooms from France, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain, as well as new antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on white grape juice concentrate from Argentina, it said in recently released fact sheets. Petitions for both sets of investigations were filed in late March (see 2204050031 and 2204050029). The International Trade Commission is scheduled to make its preliminary injury determinations by May 16. These AD/CV duty investigations will only continue if the ITC finds injury. International Trade Today will provide more details upon publication of the initiation notices in the Federal Register.