The Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) for CBP will next meet remotely June 23, CBP said in a notice. Comments are due in writing by June 22.

Argentina and Brazil recently made antidumping duty decisions on products from China, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council reported June 3. Argentina renewed for five years an antidumping duty on certain mainland Chinese “new pneumatic rubber tyres” used on bicycles. The goods will be subject to a minimum free on board export price of $7.03/kg.

The European Commission in a May 31 notice announced the impending expiration of antidumping duty measures on certain heavy plate of non-alloy or other alloy steel from China unless a review of the duties is initiated. Without this review started by EU producers of the product, the measures will expire March 1, 2022. The EU manufacturers can submit a written request for a review up to three months before the duty's expiration date.

The European Commission in a May 31 notice announced the impending expiration of antidumping duty measures on high tenacity yarn of polyesters from China unless a review of the duties is initiated. Without this review started by EU producers of the product, the measures will expire Feb. 26, 2022. The EU manufacturers can submit a written request for a review up to three months before the duty's expiration date.

The European Commission initiated an investigation into the alleged circumvention of the countervailing duty measures on imports of certain woven and/or stitched glass fiber fabrics originating in China and Egypt but consigned from Morocco, “whether declared as originating in Morocco or not,” the commission said in a May 31 notice. Under review for circumvention are “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 preimpregnated (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/m.” Interested parties may make written submissions via TRON.tdi within 37 days from the date of the publication notice.

China’s antidumping and countervailing duties against Australian barley have “effectively stopped” Australian barley trade with China, Australia’s trade minister said May 28. The country recently asked the World Trade Organization to establish a dispute settlement panel to address the duties (see 2104280050) but said it “remains open to further discussions with China with a view to resolving this issue.” Australia also said it will “vigorously defend the interests of Australian barley producers” through the WTO.

The European Commission is partially reopening an antidumping investigation into woven and/or stitched glass fiber fabrics originating in China and Egypt to determine whether the antidumping duties apply to the subject products being brought in significant quantities to "an artificial island, a fixed or floating installation or any other structure in the continental shelf of a Member State or the exclusive economic zone [CS/EEZ] declared by a Member State pursuant" to the United Nations Convention for the Law of the Sea. The EU received sufficient evidence to show that the glass fiber fabrics were being brought in to the bloc to be processed into wind blades, then exported to offshore wind parks in the CS/EEZ, a process that would injure European Union industry, the EU said May 27. The reopening of the investigation will finish within 13 months, and written comments on the reopening can be submitted to the EU for the next 20 days.

The next meeting of the World Trade Organization's Dispute Settlement Body will feature a few U.S. antidumping measures, according to a May 18 release from WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Among the American measures, antidumping duties on certain hot-rolled steel products from Japan, antidumping and countervailing duties on large residential washers from Korea, and methodologies for establishing antidumping measures involving China will be on the DSB's May 28 meeting agenda. In addition, the U.S.'s Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000 will come into focus, as the DSB releases its implementation of the recommendations adopted by the body.

The European Union extended countervailing duties on rainbow trout from Turkey after conducting an expiry review, the bloc announced in a May 25 regulatory statement. The CV duties will continue to be imposed on rainbow trout imports (1) live weighing 1, 2 kilograms or less each or (2) fresh, chilled, frozen and/or smoked: in the form of whole fish whether gilled, whether gutted, weighing 1, 2 kg or less each, or with heads off, whether gilled, whether gutted, weighing 1 kg or less each, or in the form of fillets weighing 400 grams or less. Duty rates range from 1.5% to 9.5%, with the highest rate applying to companies not listed.

The day before the first USMCA Free Trade Commission meeting, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Canada's trade minister, Mary Ng, talked about how to strengthen North American supply chains, combat forced labor and climate change, and reform the World Trade Organization.