The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Oct. 21-27:
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:
The World Trade Organization will convene a dispute settlement panel to judge whether India had the right to impose tariffs on apples, almonds, motorcycles and other products (see 1906170053). The panel was approved for formation in Geneva Oct. 29. Under the additional tariffs, American apples are taxed at 70 percent, compared with 50 percent for other countries' apple exports; the tariff on almonds and walnuts increased by 20 percentage points; and chickpeas and lentils have an additional 10 percentage points of duties. Most of these products are imported at low volumes, but India projected that it would collect more than $100 million in tariffs on almonds in the shell, and more than $20 million on apples. India says it is justified because the Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum are really safeguards to protect American mills and foundries, not national security measures. India is one of many countries involved in litigation at the WTO over the steel and aluminum tariffs -- others include Norway, Russia, the 28 countries of the European Union and China.
The Commerce Department is correcting a recently issued notice of opportunity to request administrative reviews to add two potential reviews it had omitted from its list (see 1909300015). Producers and exporters subject to the suspended antidumping duty investigations on lemon juice from Argentina (A-357-818) and uranium from Russia (A-821-802) may request reviews by Oct. 31 for entries between Oct. 1, 2018, and Sept. 30, 2019. If Commerce does not receive by that date a request for an administrative review of entries covered by those AD duty suspension agreements, it will instruct CBP to assess AD/CV duties on those entries at a rate equal to the cash deposit of estimated AD/CV duties required on those entries at the time of entry, and to continue to collect the cash deposit previously ordered.
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on hot-rolled flat-rolled carbon-quality steel products from Russia (A-821-809). The agency preliminarily said all three companies under review -- Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK), Severstal PAO and Severstal Export GmbH -- had no exports of subject merchandise to the U.S. during the period under review. If Commerce's "no shipments" findings for NLMK, Severstal PAO and Severstal GmbH are continued in the final results, subject merchandise from each of these three companies will continue to enter at the AD rates set in the most recent previous review, and any entries filed with the case numbers for NLMK, Severstal PAO or Severstal GmbH and entered Dec. 1, 2017, through Nov. 30, 2018, will be liquidated at the "all others" rate. Commerce will make its final decision when it issues the final results of this review, currently due in February.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Sept. 23 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):
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Sept. 23 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 following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Sept. 9-15:
The European Union said the level of U.S. retaliation authorized by the World Trade Organization for the EU's subsidies to Airbus is likely to be released the week of Sept. 30, and that they regret that the 19-year Airbus-Boeing dispute is coming to tariffs.
The State Department updated its list of countries certified to have a regulatory program for protection of sea turtles that is comparable to that of the U.S., or to fish in conditions that pose no risk to sea turtles, and therefore eligible to export shrimp to the U.S. without a certification from a government official on State Form DS-2031. The list includes 39 countries and Hong Kong.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of its antidumping duty administrative review on hot-rolled flat-rolled carbon-quality steel products from Russia (A-821-809). The agency determined that the only company under review, Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK), had no bona fide exports of subject merchandise to the U.S. during the period under review. As a result, Commerce is rescinding the review. Subject merchandise from NLMK will continue to enter at the AD rate set in the most recent previous review, and any entries filed with NLMK's case number entered Dec. 1, 2016, through Nov. 30, 2017, will be liquidated at the "all others" rate.