The International Trade Administration and International Trade Commission are initiating an automatic five-year sunset review to consider revoking the antidumping duty orders on corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Germany (A-428-815) and South Korea (A-580-816) and the countervailing duty order on corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from Korea (C-580-818).

The International Trade Administration is publishing notices in the December 30, 2011 Federal Register on the following AD/CV proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, the scope, affected firms, or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):

In the December 28, 2011 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 1), CBP published a notice that proposes to provide guidance to the trade and revoke a ruling and similar treatment in order to allow transaction value for “related party” sales and post-importation adjustments to be more broadly used.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection's December 28, 2011 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 46, No. 1) contains four notices of ruling actions:

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has previously announced that all licensed Customs brokers must file their Triennial Status Report and $100 fee by February 29, 2012.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that the 2012 annual user fee of $138 for each customs broker permit and national permit held by an individual, partnership, association, or corporation is due by January 20, 2012.

Vietnamese exporters challenged determinations by the International Trade Administration in the AD administrative review of certain frozen warm water shrimp from Vietnam for the February 2007 - January 2008 period. Notably, Viet Hai Seafood Co., Ltd., doing business as Vietnam Fish One Co., Ltd. challenged the ITA’s refusal to revoke the firm’s inclusion in the AD order despite zero dumping margins for three consecutive years. Fish One argued that: 1) the ITA’s regulations obliged it to perform individual reviews of companies requesting revocation based on achieving three years of zero or de minimis dumping margins, 2) the mandatory selection process, which was limited to only three exporters, was flawed and 3) the zero dumping margin it was assigned in the final results entitled it to revocation.

In the November 30, 2011 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 45, No. 49), CBP published two notices on its modification of rulings and revocation of treatment regarding a steel furniture lifter and azithromycin.

In the November 30, 2011 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 45, No. 49), CBP published a notice on its revocation of a ruling and treatment regarding the classification of liquid dispensing systems.

In the November 30, 2011 issue of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bulletin (Vol. 45, No. 49), CBP published notices on its revocation of three rulings and treatment regarding the classification of automatic pet feeders and its modification of one ruling and revocation of treatment regarding the classification of distilled rose and orange blossom waters.