The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that it and the International Trade Commission will consider revoking the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on laminated woven sacks from China (A-570-916 / A-570-917); the AD/CV duty orders on sodium nitrite from China (A-570-925 / C-570-926) and Germany (A-428-841); and the AD duty orders on non-malleable cast iron pipe fittings from China (A-570-875) and steel nails from China (A-570-909) in their automatic five-year sunset reviews scheduled to begin in July. Advance notice is given because automatic 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 initiated the five-year Sunset Review of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod from Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Moldova, Trinidad and Tobago, and Ukraine (A-351-832 / C-351-833, A-560-815, A-201-830, A-841-805, A-275-804, and A-823-812); circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from China (A-570-910 / C-570-911); and silicon metal from Russia (A-821-817),
The Commerce Department published notices in the May 28 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):
The Federal Maritime Commission said the following have filed applications for a license as a Non-Vessel-Operating Common Carrier (NVO) and/or Ocean Freight Forwarder (OFF)-Ocean Transportation Intermediary (OTI) pursuant to section 19 of the Shipping Act of 1984. The FMC also gave notice of the filing of applications to amend an existing OTI license or the qualifying individual for a license. Interested persons may contact the Office of Transportation Intermediaries, Federal Maritime Commission, Washington, D.C. 20573, at 202-523-5843 or at OTI@fmc.gov.
The antidumping duty orders on ball bearings from Japan and the United Kingdom are set to be reinstated, after the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided May 16 to reverse several lower court rulings. The Court of International Trade remands had resulted in the International Trade Commission changing its affirmative injury determinations from its sunset reviews to negative ones. That led to revocation of the ball bearings orders for Japan and the U.K. in July 2011. But the appeals court said that, contrary to the lower court’s findings, the ITC injury findings were supported by record evidence, and should have stood.
The Federal Maritime Commission said the following have filed applications for a license as a Non-Vessel-Operating Common Carrier (NVO) and/or Ocean Freight Forwarder (OFF)-Ocean Transportation Intermediary (OTI) pursuant to section 19 of the Shipping Act of 1984. The FMC also gave notice of the filing of applications to amend an existing OTI license or the qualifying individual for a license. Interested persons may contact the Office of Transportation Intermediaries, Federal Maritime Commission, Washington, D.C. 20573, at 202-523-5843 or at OTI@fmc.gov.
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on activated carbon from China (A-570-904). The agency preliminarily denied Jacobi Carbons' request for company specific-revocation, because the company has not been assigned three consecutive zero rates -- Commerce found dumping by the company in the final results of the previous administrative review. These preliminary results are not in effect. Commerce may modify them in the final results of this review and change the estimated AD cash deposit rate for these companies.
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The Commerce Department published notices in the May 1 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 April 24 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 47, No. 18), CBP published a notice that proposes to modify rulings and similar treatment regarding the country of origin marking rules for apomorphine hydrochloride ampoules.