The American Honey Producers Association filed a brief Sept. 14 with the Commerce Department alleging a particular market situation exists for the agency’s antidumping duty investigation on raw honey from India (A-533-903). The association, petitioner in the case, said the prevalence of cheap adulterated honey made with significant amounts of sugar syrup on the Indian market have depressed prices for Indian raw honey.

Flat bulk continuous filament (BCF) yarn made from polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) is not subject to antidumping and countervailing duties on polyester textured yarn from India (A-533-885/C-553-886), the Commerce Department said in a Sept. 15 scope ruling. The scope of the AD/CVD orders covers “multifilament yarn that is manufactured from polyester (polyethylene terephthalate),” and excludes bulk continuous filament yarn made from PET that meets certain physical requirements. The yarn at issue in the scope request, submitted by AYM Syntex Ltd., is a single-strand yarn, and is made from PBT, not PET, Commerce said. “We determine that BCF yarn produced from PBT is outside the scope of the Orders based on the plain language of the scope …,” Commerce said. “BCF yarn, the product at issue in AYM’s request, is produced from PBT -- not PET, as expressly identified in the plain scope language.”

An anti-circumvention inquiry requested by a U.S. industry coalition amounts to an attempt to impose new antidumping and countervailing duties on solar cells from Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam without the strictures of real AD/CVD investigations, rather than serving as valid allegations of circumvention of Chinese solar cells duties, two U.S. importers said in a brief filed Sept. 15 asking the Commerce Department not to initiate the inquiries.

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Sept. 20 on AD/CV duty proceedings:

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Sept. 17 on AD/CV duty proceedings:

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Sept. 16 on AD/CV duty proceedings:

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Sept. 15 on AD/CV duty proceedings:

The following new requests for antidumping and countervailing duty scope rulings were recently filed with the Commerce Department:

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Sept. 14 on AD/CV duty proceedings:

The Commerce Department will consider allegations of currency undervaluation as a subsidy program in an ongoing countervailing duty administrative review on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells from China (C-570-980), the agency said in a memo filed Sept. 10. The American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing submitted the allegation in July, arguing China “undervalues its currency through intervention in the Chinese renminbi (RMB) – U.S. dollar (USD) exchange rate and thus subsidizes companies in China that receive more RMB in exchange for USD earned on their export than they otherwise would, absent the [government of China (GOC)’s] involvement.”