The European Commission gave notice March 4 of the impending expiry of the antidumping duties on hand pallet trucks from China and Thailand, unless a review of the duties is initiated. EU manufacturers can submit a written request for a review up until three months before the Dec. 1 expiration date.

The U.S. last week imposed new export controls on Russia’s oil refinery sector and added 91 entities to the Entity List for supporting Russian security efforts, building on a string of trade restrictions (see 2202240069 and 2203020072) meant to cut Russia off from importing goods to support and fund its military.

Daniel Pickard, previously an international trade partner at Wiley, joined Buchanan Ingersoll as the chair of its International Trade and National Security practice group, the firm announced. Pickard deals with matters concerning trade remedy investigations, including antidumping and countervailing duty and safeguard cases; U.S. economic sanctions; anti-bribery cases; export controls; the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; and national security, the firm said. His national security practice deals with export controls and anti-boycott proceedings.

The EU initiated a "new exporter" review of its antidumping duty on bicycles from China for one Chinese exporter, Zhejiang Feishen Vehicle Industry Co., the European Commission said March 3. The duties cover "bicycles and other cycles (including delivery tricycles, but excluding unicycles), not motorised," and currently sit at a 48.5% dumping rate. Zhejiang Feishen gave adequate evidence that it didn't export subject bikes during the investigation period -- Jan. 1, 2011, to Dec. 31, 2011 -- so the commission decided to start the review.

The Federal Maritime Commission is planning to issue an advance notice of proposed rulemaking on container return and "earliest return date" practices by carriers, Commissioner Rebecca Dye told the Senate Commerce Committee. She also said there will be an advance notice of proposed rulemaking on detention and demurrage billing practices.

Pakistan recently extended temporary antidumping duties on certain imported flat steel products from the EU, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam for five years, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council reported March 2. The country will continue imposing AD of 6.18% on covered steel products from Taiwan; 6.50%, from the EU; 13.24%, from South Korea; and 17.25%, from Vietnam, with certain exemptions. Exempted from the duties are steel items used as inputs in products for export. The tariffs cover a range of products used to produce auto parts and goods such as doors, cabinets, pipes, tubes, refrigerators, washing machines, geysers and ovens, HKTDC said.

World Trade Organization members agreed at the Feb. 28 meeting of the Dispute Settlement Body to set up a dispute panel to look at China's complaint concerning Australia's antidumping duties and countervailing duties on Chinese goods, the WTO said Feb. 28. Australia imposed the AD duty measures to cover imports of wind towers, stainless steel sinks and railway wheels from China and the CVD measures to cover stainless steel sinks. China first requested a panel over the duties in January, but the request was blocked.

The European Commission gave notice Feb. 28 of the impending expiry of the antidumping duties on ceramic tiles from China, unless a review of the duties is initiated. EU manufacturers can submit a written request for a review up until three months before the Nov. 24 expiration date.

The EU initiated an expiry review of the antidumping duties on heavy plate of non-alloy or other alloy steel from China, the European Commission announced Feb. 25. The European Steel Association requested the review, which covers "flat products of non-alloy or alloy steel (excluding stainless steel, silicon-electrical steel, tool steel and high-speed steel), hot-rolled, not clad, plated or coated, not in coils, of a thickness exceeding 10 mm and of a width of 600 mm or more or of a thickness of 4,75 mm or more but not exceeding 10 mm and of a width of 2 050 mm or more." The review will cover all imports of the subject merchandise Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 2021.

The EU's antidumping duty order on glass fiber fabrics (GFF) from China was being circumvented by imports of the subject merchandise consigned from Morocco by PGTEX Morocco SARL, the European Commission said Feb. 24. As a result, the commission extended the antidumping duty order on woven and/or stitched glass fiber fabrics from China to include these goods consigned from Morocco. The duties cover "fabrics of woven, and/or stitched continuous filament glass fibre rovings and/or yarns with or without other elements, excluding products which are impregnated or pre-impregnated (pre-preg), and excluding open mesh fabrics with cells with a size of more than 1,8 mm in both length and width and weighing more than 35 g/m2." The duty for the extended scope is the 69% antidumping duty rate applicable to "all other companies," and consigned GFF imports from Morocco, whether or not the goods originate in Morocco, are covered by the regulation.