The European Commission amended a countervailing duty order on rainbow trout imports from Turkey on Aug. 3, finding that an exporter with an individual CVD rate could still receive this rate following a name change. BAFA Su Urunleri Yavru Uretim Merkezi Sanayi Ticaret AS, an exporter with a 1.5% individual CVD rate, told the commission that after combining with its parent company, it changed its name to Kilic Deniz Urunleri Uretimi Ihracat Ithalat ve Ticaret A.S. The commission found the name change to be properly registered, keeping the 1.5% rate for Kilic.
All Indian exporters with scrips under the Rebate of State and Central Taxes and Levies scheme for shipping bills up to March 31, 2020, should upload their Electronic Bank Realization Certificates in the Directorate General of Foreign Trade's online “portal by their AD banks” by Sept. 15, the agency said in an Aug. 4 notice. Many pre-March 31, 2020, shipping bills with Let Export Orders do not have their corresponding e-BRCs uploaded, prompting the notice from the DGFT.
The European Commission began a review of existing antidumping duties on certain cold-rolled flat steel products from China and Russia, an Aug. 3 notice in the Official Journal of the European Union said. Eurofer requested the review following the publication of the expiration notice for the duties. The commission will decide if an extension of the duties is necessary to further protect the European steel industry, the notice said. The period under investigation is July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2021. The covered goods are “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 a number of notable exceptions including flat-rolled products of other alloy steel, of all widths, of silicon-electrical steel.
The European Commission in an Aug. 3 notice announced the impending expiration of antidumping duty measures on certain continuous filament glass fiber products from China unless a review of the duties is initiated. European Union manufacturers can submit a written request for a review up to three months before the duty's April 26, 2022, expiration date.
The United Kingdom ceased applying an antidumping duty on pre- and post-stressing wires and wire strands of non-alloy steel (PSC wires and strands) from China Aug. 2, following a transition review. The measures were initially imposed on June 6, 2015, by the European Union on behalf of the U.K. and the other EU member states. Following the U.K.'s departure from the EU, the secretary of state for international trade transitioned the AD duty to continue applying during the U.K. transition period. Following a transition review, to decide whether to keep the duties, the AD duty will cease to apply, effective Aug. 2.
Brazil, Colombia and Canada recently made antidumping and countervailing duty decisions on certain products from mainland China, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council reported Aug. 2. The duty decisions affect a range of imported Chinese goods, and not all apply to each country mentioned, including vehicular natural gas cylinders, flat‑rolled galvanized steel sheet, unframed mirrors, carbon and alloy steel line pipe, tires and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film.
The European Commission began a review of existing antidumping duties on aspartame from China, a July 29 notice in the Official Journal of the European Union said. HSWT France S.A.S. requested the review following the publication of the expiration notice for the duties. The commission will decide if an extension of the duties is necessary to further protect the European aspartame industry, the notice said. The period under investigation is July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2021.
The European Commission in a July 29 notice announced the expiration of antidumping duty measures on high fatigue performance steel concrete reinforcement bars from China. Since no “duly substantiated request for a review” was filed with the commission, the antidumping measures will expire July 30, the notice said.
The Federal Maritime Commission this week issued a series of long-awaited recommendations to address issues in the international freight delivery system that have been exacerbated over the past year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The recommendations, which resulted from Commissioner Rebecca Dye’s fact-finding mission that began in March 2020, aim to minimize barriers to Shipping Act enforcement and better allow the FMC to “facilitate prompt and fair dispute resolution,” Dye said July 28.
World Trade Organization members reached a consensus July 28 on the 14 new heads of the subsidiary bodies that report to the Council for Trade in Goods. The General Council chair, Ambassador Dacio Castillo of Honduras, added that he will host consultations on how to "improve the overall process for the appointment of officers of all WTO bodies," according to an accompanying press release. The chairpersons are as follows: