A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department 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 http://adcvd.cbp.dhs.gov/adcvdweb.
The green group As You Sow lists itself as the “lead filer” of an Amazon shareholder proposal asking the Amazon board for a report on the company’s e-waste recycling practices, the group said in its annual Proxy Preview 2016, published Tuesday. The e-waste proposal at Amazon is one of 314 “pending shareholder resolutions” against dozens of companies across a spectrum of issues, including the environment, political activity, human and labor rights, and employee diversity, the report said. The As You Sow proposal at Amazon seeks a corporate accounting “on the company’s policy options to reduce potential pollution and public health problems from electronic waste generated as a result of its sales to consumers, and to increase the safe recycling of such wastes,” the report said. Amazon challenged the proposal at the SEC and wants the proposal struck from the agenda of its next annual meeting, “arguing it concerns ordinary business since it relates to the recycling of customers’ waste, not its own, and thus is a matter of customer relations, and that it is moot since the company already offers e-waste recycling options,” As You Sow said. Amazon hasn’t yet filed even preliminary proxy statements at the SEC but customarily has done so in April for annual meetings it typically holds in mid-June in Seattle. Amazon representatives didn’t comment. As for its e-waste recycling practices, Amazon “supports the responsible disposal and recycling of electronics products,” the company says on its environmental page. But Amazon doesn’t run an e-waste take-back program of its own, offering links to about two dozen nationally and state-based e-waste programs.
The Commerce Department published notices in the March 9 Federal Register 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 International Trade Commission published notices in the March 9 Federal Register on the following AD/CV injury, Section 337 patent, and other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on frozen warmwater shrimp from Vietnam (A-552-802) (here). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise from companies under review entered February 2014 through January 2015.
The Commerce Department is postponing until May 31 the due date for its preliminary determinations in the antidumping duty investigations on iron mechanical transfer drive components from Canada and China (A-570-032, A-122-856) (here). Once Commerce makes its preliminary determination, it can suspend liquidation and require cash deposits of estimated AD duties. The preliminary determination was originally due April 11.
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on frozen warmwater shrimp from Thailand (A-549-822) (here). Rates calculated in this review will be used to set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise from 163 exporters that was entered February 2014 through January 2015.
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on prestressed concrete rail tie wire from Mexico (A-201-843) (here). The agency assigned the only company under review, Aceros Camesa, S.A. de C.V., an AD rate of 6.33%. Any changes to cash deposit rates for Camesa would take effect on the publication date of the final results of this review, currently due in July. In its final results, Commerce will set assessments of AD duties for subject merchandise exported by Camesa with a time of entry between Dec. 12, 2013 and May 31, 2015.
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on frozen warmwater shrimp from India (A-533-840) (here). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise from companies under review entered February 2014 through January 2015.
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on small diameter graphite electrodes from China (A-570-929) (here). Rates calculated in this review will be used to set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise from three exporters that was entered February 2014 through January 2015.