ITA Lists Recently Completed, Pending AD/CV Duty Scope Rulings, Etc.
The International Trade Administration has published its quarterly list of (i) recently completed antidumping and countervailing duty scope rulings and anticircumvention determinations; (ii) terminated scope and anticircumvention inquiries; and (iii) pending scope inquiries and anticircumvention rulings.
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The following list covers rulings for the period January 1 through March 31, 2011:
| Country/ Order | Completed Scope Ruling | Case No. |
| China | ||
| Tapered Roller Bearings | Blackstone OTR LLC and OTR Wheel Engineering, Inc.'s wheel hub units/assemblies with tapered roller bearings are within the scope of the AD order | A-570-601 |
| Folding Metal Tables & Chairs | Lifetime Products, Inc.'s four-foot folding tables; and its six-foot and eight-foot fold-in-half tables are not within the scope of the AD order | A-570-868 |
| Wooden Bedroom Furniture | Shermag Inc.'s two crib and changing table combinations are not within the scope of the AD order. Poundex Associates Corp.'s bi-cast leather sleigh bed and bi-cast leather platform bed and Stork Craft Manufacturing's two infant (baby) changing tables are within the scope of the AD order | A-570-890 |
| Lined Paper Products | C2F, Inc.'s PRO-0203-01 black journal and PTL-018121 black bound-stitched journal; and its five bound-stitched journals (PTL-013142-2RB; PTL-016152-3SB; PTL-016143-2RD; PTL-016153-2RB; and PTL-019011) are not within the scope of the AD order | A-570-901 |
| Raw Flexible Magnets | Medical Action Industries Inc.'s Magnet with a Mark and Magnet Strip with a Groove are within the scope of the AD and CV orders. Medical Action Industries Inc's the Surgical Instrument Drape and InterDesign's sixty raw flexible magnets are not within the scope of the AD and CV orders | A-570-922 C-570-923 |
| Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts | Aceto Corporation's calcium citrate USP is within the scope of the AD order | A-570-937 C-570-938 |
| Taiwan | ||
| Raw Flexible Magnets | InterDesign's sixty raw flexible magnets are not within the scope of the AD order | A-583-842 |
| Canada | ||
| Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts | Aceto corporation's calcium citrate USP is within the scope of the AD order | A-122-853 |
| Country/Order | Product(s) Pending Scope Ruling | Case No. |
| China | ||
| Petroleum Wax Candles | Certain candles of multiple designs; flower candles; floral bouquet candles; vegetable candles; and Bite-Lite candles | A-570-504 |
| Tapered Roller Bearings | Certain wheel hub units | A-570-601 |
| Pure Magnesium in Granular Form | U.S.-origin pure magnesium exported to China for atomization and re-exported to the U.S. | A-570-864 |
| Folding Metal Tables & Chairs | 33-inch round tables and pedestal tables | A-570-868 |
| Wooden Bedroom Furniture | Partially upholstered daybed with trundle unit and fully upholstered daybed without trundle unit | A-570-890 |
| Hand Trucks | MC2, MCI, and MCK Magna Carts | A-570-891 |
| Diamond Sawblades and Parts Thereof | Rescue/demolition sawblades | A-570-900 |
| Pneumatic Off-the-Road Tires | Custom-built, size 14.9-24, pneumatic off-the-road mud racing tires built exclusively for all terrain vehicles; and new "Trac Master" and "Traction Master" tires | A-570-912 C-570-913 |
| Laminated Woven Sacks | Laminated woven sacks | A-570-916 C-570-917 |
| Lightweight Thermal Paper | Certain lightweight thermal paper (LWTP) converted into smaller LWTP rolls in China from jumbo LWTP rolls produced in third countries | A-570-920 C-570-921 |
| Raw Flexible Magnets | Flexible magnets affixed to hard, inflexible plastic material; and three types of magnets (i.e., rolls of meter-wide magnet sheeting, craft magnets, and door gasket extrusions) | A-570-922 C-570-923 |
| Uncovered Innerspring Units | Unfinished mattress kits | A-570-928 |
| Steel Threaded Rod | Spool bolts and shank pins; and engineered steel coil rod | A-570-932 |
| Citric Acid and Certain Citrate Salts | Blends of citric acid and blends of citrate salts | A-570-937 C-570-938 |
| Woven Electric Blankets | Automotive fleece electric blanket | A-570-951 |
| Carbazole Violet Pigment 23 | Finished carbazole violet pigment exported from Japan | A-570-892 |
| Magnesia Carbon Bricks | Tap hole sleeve systems, assembled or disassembled, sold and entered as a complete set | A-570-954 C-570-955 |
| Taiwan | ||
| Raw Flexible Magnets | Three types of magnets (i.e., rolls of meter-wide magnet sheeting, craft magnets, and door gasket extrusions) | A-583-842 |
| India | ||
| Carbazole Violet Pigment 23 | Finished carbazole violet pigment exported from Japan | A-533-838 C-533-839 |
| Japan | ||
| Ball Bearings and Parts Thereof | Magnetic encoders used in antilock braking systems in automobiles and worm assembly and a seat track roller | A-588-804 |
| Mexico | ||
| Carbon and Certain Alloy Steel Wire Rod | Wire rod with a diameter of less than 5.00 mm | A-201-830 |
| Magnesia Carbon Bricks | Tap hole sleeve systems, assembled or disassembled, sold and entered as a complete set | A-201-837 |
| Country/Order | Product(s) Pending Circumvention Ruling | Case No. |
| China | ||
| Glycine | Glycine from China, processed and re-packaged in India and exported as Indian-origin glycine | A-570-836 |
| Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel | Certain cut-to-length carbon steel plate that contains a small level of boron | A-570-849 |
| Tissue Paper Products | Certain imports of issue paper from Vietnam | A-570-894 |
| Steel Wire Garment Hangers | Certain imports of steel wire garment hangers from Vietnam | A-570-918 |
| Small Diameter Graphite Electrodes | Unfinished small diameter graphite electrodes produced in China and completed and assembled in the United Kingdom | A-570-929 |
| Russia | ||
| Ferrovanadium and Nitrided Vanadium | Vanadium pentoxide imports from Russia that are converted into ferrovanadium in the U.S. | A-821-807 |
(The ITA also terminated a scope inquiry regarding oil country tubular goods from China (A-570-943/C-570-944). See ITT's Online Archives 11060209 for previous summary of this inquiry.)
ITA Contact -- Julia Hancock (202) 482-1394
(FR Pub 11/29/11)