The Commerce Department is amending the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on large diameter welded pipe from Canada (A-122-863) it issued Feb. 4, to correct an error it said it made in calculating the rate for Evraz. These amended final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered Aug. 27, 2018, through April 30, 2020. The new rates are applicable as of March 11.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website March 9, 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 House was set to vote late Wednesday on an FY 2022 omnibus appropriations package that includes funding increases for the FCC, FTC, NTIA and other tech-related federal agencies. Preliminary votes on the measure, filed as an amendment to shell bill HR-2471, hadn't happened by our deadline as chamber leaders worked out a deal to cut COVID-19 aid language from the measure after some members objected earlier in the day. The chamber was also expected to vote on a short-term continuing resolution (House Joint Resolution 75) to extend federal funding through Tuesday in a bid to give the Senate extra time to also consider HR-2471. The current CR would otherwise expire Friday night.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on crystalline silicon photovoltaic products from Taiwan (A-583-853). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers of subject merchandise entered Feb. 1, 2020, through Jan. 31, 2021.
The Commerce Department released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod from Mexico (A-201-830). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise from companies under review entered Oct. 1, 2019, through Sept. 30, 2020.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on finished carbon steel flanges from India (A-533-871). Commerce found 41 companies under review did not undersell subject merchandise during the period of review, assigning each of them a zero percent AD duty rate. Subject merchandise from these 41 companies entered Aug. 1, 2019, through July 31, 2020, will be liquidated without any assessment of AD duties, and future entries of subject merchandise from the 41 companies will not be subject to AD duty cash deposit requirements until further notice. Changes to cash deposit rates from these final results take effect March 10, the date these final results are scheduled to be published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on uncovered innerspring units from China (A-570-928). The agency upheld its preliminary finding that the only company under review, Comfort Coil Technology Sdn. Bhd., had no exports of subject merchandise to the U.S. during the period under review. As such, subject merchandise from the company will continue to enter at AD rates set in the most recent previous review, and any entries filed with Comfort Coil's case number entered Feb. 1, 2020, through Jan. 31, 2021, will be liquidated at the China-wide rate.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website March 8, 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 West Virginia legislature passed an emergency communications bill to set up a commission to study implementing next-generation 911 for the state. The Senate voted 33-0 Monday for the House-passed HB-4282. The commission would have to complete a preliminary report by Dec. 31 and a final report by June 1, 2023. "The growing use of cellphones and VoIP devices has made traditional 911 services less reliable because they do not show the location of or information about the caller,” said sponsor Sen. Mark Maynard (R) at the livestreamed floor session. HB-4282 will become law if Gov. Jim Justice (R) signs. Friday in Illinois, the House voted 103-0 for HB-5502 to require that multi-line telephone systems and other services route 911 calls to the correct jurisdiction. It goes to the Senate. Also that day, the Hawaii House unanimously sent the Senate HB-1980 to permit but not require Medicaid, health insurers and others to cover telephonic behavioral health services.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register March 8 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):