The Commerce Department finalized the revocation of antidumping and countervailing duties on ravioli and tortellini filled with cheese or vegetables under the AD/CV duty orders on pasta from Italy (A-475-818/C-475-819). Revocation of AD duties is effective July 1, 2012, and CV duties are revoked as of Jan. 1, 2012. Commerce is adding the following language to the scope:

The Commerce Department issued the final results of its antidumping duty administrative review on 1-hydroxyethylidene-1, 1-diphosphonic Acid (HEDP) from China (A-570-834). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for entries between April 2012 and March 2013. There are currently no AD duty cash deposit requirements in effect for HEDP from China because the order was revoked in a sunset review in June (see 14053013).

CBP issued its Sept. 24 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 48, No. 38), which contains the following ruling actions:

The Commerce Department published notices in the Sept. 23 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 Sept. 3 issue of the CBP Customs Bulletin (Vol. 48, No. 35), CBP published a notice that proposes to modify a ruling and similar treatment for the tariff classification of phosphor plates.

CBP issued its Sept. 3 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 48, No. 35), which contains the following ruling actions:

The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that it and the International Trade Commission will next month consider revoking the antidumping duty order on cut-to-length carbon steel plate from China (A-570-849), as well as the suspended antidumping duty investigations on cut-to-length carbon steel plate from Russia (A-821-808) and Ukraine (A-823-808) in their automatic five-year sunset reviews scheduled to begin in October. 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 U.S. apparel industry may be forced to cope with a decrease in apparel exports from Guatemala if the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative determines the country is continuing to violate labor provisions in the Central America Free Trade Agreement-Dominican Republic (CAFTA-DR), said Nate Herman, vice president of international trade at the American Apparel and Footwear Association, in an Aug. 27 interview. USTR on Aug. 25 chose to provide Guatemala at least four more weeks before the U.S. will reactivate the dispute settlement process (see 14082602). Once USTR reactivates the settlement process, the U.S. is then able to impose sanctions on Guatemala at any time, said Herman.

The Commerce Department intends to end antidumping duties on wooden bedroom furniture from China (A-570-870) for “murphy” enclosable wall bed units, it said in the preliminary results of a changed circumstances review. The agency says it got no response from domestic furniture makers to its request for comments on whether the industry supports the partial revocation (see 14050116). Commerce will move forward unless it gets comments in opposition to its preliminary results. The final results of this changed circumstances review are due in January.

The Federal Maritime Commission released notices on recently received applications for Ocean Transportation Intermediary licenses, as well as reissuances and revocations and terminations of current agreements. Interested parties may contact the Office of Transportation Intermediaries at 202-523-5843 or at OTI@fmc.gov.