The Commerce Department will not yet suspend liquidation and impose an antidumping duty cash deposit requirement on imports of ferrosilicon from Russia (A-821-820), after finding Russian companies didn't dump subject merchandise in the U.S. in its preliminary AD duty determination. The agency calculated zero AD duty rates for the only respondent, RFA International. Commerce will revisit the issue when it issues its final determination, and may at that point suspend liquidation and impose an AD duty cash deposit requirement if it finds dumping. If Commerce doesn't change its finding, then no AD duty order will be issued.
Russia export controls and sanctions
The use of export controls and sanctions on Russia has surged since the country's invasion of Crimea in 2014, and especially its invasion of Ukraine in in February 2022. Similar export controls and sanctions have been imposed by U.S. allies, including the EU, U.K. and Japan. The following is a listing of recent articles in Export Compliance Daily on export controls and sanctions imposed on Russia:
A countervailing duty cash deposit requirement will take effect March 11 for imports of grain oriented electrical steel from China (C-570-995), after the Commerce Department found illegal subsidization of Chinese producers in its preliminary determination. The agency calculated a CV duty cash deposit rate of 49.15% for Baoshan, and assigned the same rate to all other Chinese exporters.
On March 6 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
The Finance committee is considering all possible economic mechanisms at its disposal to respond to the recent Russian incursion into Ukraine, said Finance Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., at a hearing on President Barack Obama’s Fiscal Year 2015 budget proposal (here). The encroachment into Crimea has produced an uproar among U.S. lawmakers, including Finance ranking member Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who recently called for the crisis to spur U.S. action against Russian violations of international trade commitments.
The Commerce Department preliminarily found dumping of imports of ferrosilicon from Venezuela, but no dumping of imports from Russia, it announced in a March 5 fact sheet. That means Commerce will require an AD duty cash deposit of 27.27% on ferrosilicon from Venezuela, beginning on the date the preliminary determination is published. But AD duty cash deposits will not be required on ferrosilicon from Russia until further notice. Commerce is currently set to make its final decision by May 20 for the Venezuela investigation, and July 18 for the Russia investigation. ITT will provide more details on Commerce’s preliminary determinations once they are published in the Federal Register.
On Feb. 28 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
On Feb. 27 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
The Commerce Department is extending the deadline for the preliminary determination in its antidumping duty investigations on grain-oriented electrical steel from China, the Czech Republic, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Poland, and Russia (A-570-994, A-851-803, A-428-842, A-588-871, A-580-871, A-455-804, A-821-821). Commerce began the investigations in October (see 13103020), on the basis of a petition filed by domestic steel producer AK Steel (see 13101707). AK Steel requested that Commerce push back its deadline to give the agency more time to request and analyze information from Chinese companies. The agency’s preliminary findings are now due May 2.
Mexico's Diario Oficial of Feb. 19 lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy as follows:
On Feb. 14 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports: