The Commerce Department intends to exempt a multifunction cart imported by Positec from antidumping duties on hand trucks from China (A-570-971), it said in the preliminary results of a changed circumstances review (here). Positec is requesting partial revocation of the AD duty order for its patented WORX “Aerocart,” which can be converted from a dolly to a wheelbarrow. The domestic manufacturers that originally requested the hand truck duties do not oppose the request, according to Commerce. If Commerce finalizes its exemption in the final results of its changed circumstances review, it will add the following language to the scope of the AD duty order on hand trucks from China:
The Commerce Department tentatively found pencils exported by Beijing FILA Dixon Stationery Co., Ltd. are still exempt from antidumping duties on cased pencils from China (A-570-827), in the preliminary results of a changed circumstances review (here). Beijing Dixon had requested the review after it transferred production of the pencils to a new entity, Fila Dixon Stationery (Kunshan) Co., Ltd. The pencils are still exported by Beijing Dixon. Commerce preliminarily found that the revocation of AD duties on pencils from Beijing Dixon in 2013 still applies (see 13071710). Commerce is set to issue the final results of its changed circumstances review by November, or as early as April if all parties to the case, including U.S. pencil producers, agree with the preliminary decision.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Feb. 24, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at http://adcvd.cbp.dhs.gov/adcvdweb.
CBP released its Feb. 25 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 49, No. 8) (here), including four ruling letters:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Feb. 19, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at http://adcvd.cbp.dhs.gov/adcvdweb.
CBP Feb. 18 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 49, No. 7), contains the following ruling actions (here):
The Commerce Department published notices in the Feb. 6 Federal Register on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
In the Feb. 4 issue of the CBP Customs Bulletin (Vol. 49, No. 5), CBP published notices that propose to modify or revoke rulings and similar treatment of pheromone lures and self-propelled transporters (here).
CBP Feb. 4 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 49, No. 5), contains the following ruling actions (here):
Companies can’t challenge CBP classification decisions on behalf of the manufacturers that use their products as inputs, even if they may suffer indirect injury in the form of lost sales, ruled the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Feb. 3 in an seesawing case on yarn made by Best Key (here). Instead, they must have suffered direct injury to themselves in order to challenge CBP classification decisions in court, said CAFC as it reversed a February decision from the Court of International Trade.