The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on preserved mushrooms from China (A-570-851) (here). Commerce found Linyi City Kangfa Foodstuff Drinkable Co., Ltd. and 51 other exporters did not demonstrate independence from state control, assigning them the China-wide AD duty rate of 303.88%. Commerce will assess AD duties at this rate on subject merchandise from these companies entered between Feb. 1, 2014 and Jan. 31, 2015. A 303.88% AD duty cash deposit rate for these companies takes effect March 10.
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on stainless steel bar from Brazil (A-351-825) (here). The agency preliminarily calculated a zero percent AD duty rate for Villares Metals S.A. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from Villares entered between February 2014 and January 2015 will not be assessed AD duties, and future entries from Villares will not be subject to an AD cash deposit requirement until further notice. Any changes to rates for Villares would take effect on the date of publication in the Federal Register of the final results of this review, which are due in July.
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 8 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 Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on preserved mushrooms from India (A-533-813) (here). The agency preliminarily calculated a zero percent AD rate for Himalya India, Ltd. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from Himalya entered between February 2014 and January 2015 will not be assessed AD duties, and future entries from Himalya will not be subject to an AD cash deposit requirement until further notice. Any changes to rates for Himalya would take effect on the date of publication in the Federal Register of the final results of this review, which are due in July.
The Commerce Department will require countervailing duty cash deposits on imports of welded stainless pressure pipe from India, it said in a March 7 fact sheet (here). The agency set CV duty cash deposit rates ranging from 2.96% to 6.21% for Indian exporters. The new cash deposit requirements will take effect on the date Commerce publishes its preliminary determination in the Federal Register.
Antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on amorphous silica fabric from China will continue, after the International Trade Commission on March 4 unanimously voted that there is a "reasonable indication" that U.S. industry is being injured by dumped and illegally subsidized imports, it said (here). The next step is the Commerce Department’s preliminary determinations, at which point AD and CV duty cash deposits may be required on imports of subject merchandise. Commerce’s preliminary findings are due April 14 in the CV duty investigation, and June 28 in the AD duty investigation.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website March 7, 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 Commerce Department published notices in the March 7 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 Commerce Department is beginning antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on imports of stainless steel sheet and strip from China, it said in a fact sheet released March 4 (here). A group of U.S. manufacturers requested the investigations on Feb. 12 (see 1602160033). The International Trade Commission is scheduled to make its preliminary injury determination by March 28. These AD/CV duty investigations will only continue if the ITC finds injury. ITT will provide more details upon publication of the initiation notice in the Federal Register.