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 March 2012 law allowing countervailing duties on non-market economy (NME) countries like China and Vietnam is not unconstitutional, ruled the Court of International Trade, even though the law is retroactive in application, and creates a “special rule” allowing CV duties but not double counting adjustments for proceedings between 2006 and 2012. The law was hurriedly enacted to specifically allow imposition of CV duties on NME countries, after the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a 2010 CIT ruling that the law, as it existed at the time, did not allow for their imposition. Without the law, the International Trade Administration may have had to end 24 (now 26) CV duty orders on products from China and Vietnam, and refund CV duties collected.
Allegheny Steel Corp. and North American Stainless appealed the Court of International Trade’s November dismissal of a challenge to the results of a sunset review that resulted in the 2010 revocation of the antidumping duty orders on stainless steel sheet and strip from Italy, Germany, and Mexico. In its injury determination in the sunset review, the International Trade Commission had said that ThyssenKrupp’s U.S. subsidiary had effectively become part of U.S. industry, and had effective control over imports from affiliates in Italy, Germany, and Mexico. CIT upheld that determination.
The International Trade Administration is giving advance notice that it and the International Trade Commission will consider revoking the antidumping duty order on sodium hexametaphosphate from China (A-570-908) in their automatic five-year sunset reviews scheduled to begin in February. Advance notice is given because automatic sunset reviews have short deadlines. An order will be revoked unless the ITA 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 the ITA or the ITC would result in the revocation of the order.
The International Trade Administration published notices in the Dec. 31 Federal Register on the following AD/CV 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 International Trade Administration moved up the effective date for revocation of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on honey from Argentina (A-357-812 / C-357-813), after receiving no opposition to its preliminary results of a changed circumstances review. In the September results of a sunset review, the ITA revoked the AD/CV duty orders as of Aug. 2, 2012. Through this changed circumstances review, the ITA now says the effective date of revocation is Dec. 1, 2010, for the AD duty order, and Dec. 1, 2011, for the CV duty order.
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.
Mexico's Diario Oficial of Dec. 21, lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy as follows:
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.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Dec. 17, 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://1.usa.gov/VxGCVA. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)