The U.K. suspended its antidumping duty on hot-rolled flat products of iron, non-alloy or other alloy steel from Ukraine, the Department for International Trade announced Aug. 30. The move accepts the Trade Remedies Authority's recommendation to suspend the antidumping duties on the Ukrainian good for nine months, a decision made after the agency found that market conditions for Ukrainian hot-rolled steel changed following Russia's invasion. The TRA said injury to the U.K. industry is unlikely to happen with a nine-month suspension.

The U.K. implemented a recommendation from its Trade Remedies Authority to vary the antidumping duty on cold-rolled flat steel products from China and Russia so that it applies for five years from Aug. 5, 2021, the Department for International Trade announced in an Aug. 30 notice. The duties apply to "Flat-rolled products of iron or non-alloy steel, or other alloy steel but excluding of stainless steel, of all widths, cold-rolled (cold-reduced), not clad, plated or coated and not further worked than cold-rolled (cold-reduced)," with various exceptions.

The World Trade Organization published the agenda for the Aug. 29 meeting of the Dispute Settlement Body. It includes U.S. status reports on the implementation of recommendations adopted by the DSB on antidumping measures on certain hot-rolled steel products from Japan; antidumping and countervailing measures on large residential washers from South Korea; certain methodologies and their application to antidumping proceedings involving China; and Section 110(5) of the U.S. Copyright Act. A status report also is expected from Indonesia on measures relating to the import of horticultural products, animals and animal products, and from the EU on measures affecting the approval and marketing of biotech products. Turkey will report on the implementation of the DSB's recommendations on its measures on the production, importation and marketing of pharmaceutical products.

Mexico and Brazil recently announced antidumping duty actions and decisions on certain products from mainland China, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council reported Aug. 19.

The U.K. this week announced provisional antidumping measures on certain aluminum extrusion imports from China. The measures, which took effect Aug. 17, will require U.K. exporters to obtain a bank guarantee, bond or cash before they can import the items, which include bars, rods, profiles, tubes and various pipes. The notice includes information on import rates for the items and goods that are excluded from the measures.

The Bureau of Industry and Security last week announced new export controls on four technologies that can be used to produce advanced semiconductors and gas turbine engines. The controls, which were agreed to by members of the multilateral Wassenaar Arrangement at last year’s plenary, will apply to two substrates of ultra-wide bandgap semiconductors, certain Electronic Computer Aided Design (ECAD) software and certain pressure gain combustion (PGC) technology.

South Africa recently suspended antidumping duties on poultry from Brazil, Denmark, Ireland, Poland and Spain for a 12-month period due to rising food prices, the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service said in an August report. But the country will keep AD duties on poultry from Germany, the Netherlands, the U.K. and the U.S. USDA said Brazil is the only South African trading partner that will immediately benefit from the move because European poultry exports are limited by highly pathogenic avian influenza.

Mexico, Argentina, Peru and Canada recently announced antidumping and countervailing duty actions and decisions on certain products from mainland China, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council reported Aug. 11.

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Vietnam imposed antidumping and countervailing duties on sugar products imported from Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia and Myanmar that use Thai sugar materials, the state-run CustomsNews reported Aug. 4. The trade remedies are meant to target evasion of the AD/CVD on Thai sugar and amount to a 42.99% antidumping duty and a 4.65% countervailing duty, though the imports won't be subject to the duties if it can be proven that they were made with sugarcane harvested in the five countries. The tariffs will expire June 15, 2026, unless another decision from the Ministry of Industry and Trade changes the duties.