The Commerce Department published notices in the Oct. 30 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):

A coalition of domestic manufacturers pushing for renewed antidumping duties on diamond sawblades from South Korea was dealt a blow on Oct. 29, as the Court of International Trade sustained zero percent AD duty rates for two South Korean exporters (here). The case could have resulted in reinstatement of the AD duty order (see 13102802), which was revoked in 2011 to implement a World Trade Organization mandate (see 11102822). But with rates for Ehwa and Shinhan affirmed at zero percent by CIT, the possibility of reinstatement “has been foreclosed by this decision,” said Max Schutzman of Grunfeld Desiderio, who represented Ehwa in the case. The decision is still subject to appeal. An attorney for the Diamond Sawblades Manufacturers Coalition did not immediately return a request for comment.

The Commerce Department is ending antidumping duties on certain wall bed units under the AD duty order on wooden bedroom furniture from China (A-570-890), it said in the final results of a changed circumstances review (here). Commerce said domestic industry didn’t oppose its proposal in August to partially revoke the order (see 14081514). Because domestic industry demonstrated a “lack of interest in the relief provided by the order with respect to certain wall bed units,” Commerce is now exempting these wall bed units from AD duties. The partial revocation takes effect Oct. 30.

A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Oct. 10, 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.

The Federal Maritime Commission is seeking comment on its heavily revised proposed rulemaking on Ocean Transport Intermediaries (here). While the original proposal (see 13053031) was a source of concern for the National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America (see 13041004), the updated version strips out a number of the controversial pieces of the rule (see 14092217). Comments are due Dec. 12.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is proposing new regulations on procedures for disapproval of initial permit applications, denials of renewals, and revocations of explosives licenses and permits. ATF was part of the Treasury Department before moving to the Justice Department in 2002, and still follows Treasury Department regulations on explosives licenses. The new regulations would reflect the switch, albeit 12 years after the fact. The proposed rule also makes changes to procedures for firearms license denials, suspensions, revocations and fines. Comments are due Jan. 5.

The Federal Maritime Commission will post Ocean Transportation Intermediaries licensing information only online and not in the Federal Register as of Oct. 20, the agency said. A recently amended rule allows for the change, said the FMC. Through Oct. 17, the agency will be posting the OTI information on the new site (here) and in the Federal Register, it said. The site will include information on license applications, revocations, suspensions, surrenders, reissuances, and rescissions of revocations, the FMC said.

The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that it and the International Trade Commission will next month consider revoking the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on prestressed concrete steel wire strand from India (A-533-828/C-533-829), Brazil (A-351-837), Japan (A-588-068), Mexico (A-201-831), South Korea (A-580-852), and Thailand (A-549-820); the AD/CV duty orders on commodity matchbooks from India (A-533-848/C-533-849); and the AD duty order on tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol from China (A-570-887), in their automatic five-year sunset reviews scheduled to begin in November. Advance notice is given because sunset reviews have short deadlines. An order will be revoked unless Commerce finds that revocation would lead to a continuation or recurrence of dumping and the ITC finds that revocation would result in continuation or recurrence of material injury to a U.S. industry. As a result, a negative determination by either Commerce or the ITC would result in the revocation of these orders.

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping duty orders on cut-to-length carbon steel plate from China, Russia and Ukraine (A-570-849, A-821-808, A-823-808).

The Commerce Department published notices in the Sept. 29 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):