The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping duty and countervailing orders on aluminum wire and cable from China (A-570-095/C-570-096); carbon and alloy steel threaded rod from China (A-570-104/C-570-105) and India (A-533-887/C-533-888); vertical metal file cabinets from China (A-570-110/C-570-111); and welded stainless steel pressure pipe from China (A-570-930/C-570-931). It also will consider revoking the antidumping duty orders on acetone from Belgium (A-423-814), South Korea (A-580-899), Singapore (A-559-808), South Africa (A-791-824) and Spain (A-469-819); carbon and alloy steel threaded rod from Taiwan (A-583-865) and Thailand (A-549-840); malleable iron pipe fittings from China (A-570-881); mattresses from China (A-570-092); steel nails from China (A-570-909); and welded stainless steel pressure pipe from Malaysia (A-557-815), Thailand (A-549-830) and Vietnam (A-552-816), Commerce said in a notice released Nov. 1.
CBP has released its Oct. 30 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 43), which includes the following ruling actions:
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Oct. 21 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 Commerce Department will consider a potential new exemption from antidumping and countervailing duties for certain small, low-wattage, off-grid solar cells attached to an aluminum extrusion, it said in a trio of notices initiating changed circumstances reviews.
The Commerce Department intends to add an exemption from antidumping and countervailing duties for certain types of wheel studs, the agency said in the initiation and preliminary results of a changed circumstances review of the AD order on alloy and certain carbon steel threaded rod from China (A-570-104) and the CVD order on carbon and alloy steel threaded rod from China (C-570-105).
CBP has released its Oct. 9 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 40), which includes the following ruling actions:
CBP's new Forced Labor Allegation Portal and Forced Labor Portal will consolidate the information collection of potential forced labor violations into one centralized location, "increasing efficiency and reducing the burden of collection to both CBP and the public," the agency said in a notice seeking comments as it prepares to submit the information collection to the Office of Management and Budget.
Effectively immediately, CBP no longer will detain disposable gloves produced by Malaysian company Brightway Holding at U.S. ports of entry because that company has been able to prove that its gloves were not made using forced labor.
The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that in automatic five-year sunset reviews scheduled to begin in November it will consider revoking the antidumping duty and countervailing orders on aluminum wire and cable from China (A-570-095/C-570-096); carbon and alloy steel threaded rod from China (A-570-104/C-570-105) and India (A-533-887/C-533-888); vertical metal file cabinets from China (A-570-110/C-570-111); and welded stainless steel pressure pipe from China (A-570-930/C-570-931). It also will consider revoking the antidumping duty orders on acetone from Belgium (A-423-814), South Korea (A-580-899), Singapore (A-559-808), South Africa (A-791-824) and Spain (A-469-819); carbon and alloy steel threaded rod from Taiwan (A-583-865) and Thailand (A-549-840); malleable iron pipe fittings from China (A-570-881); mattresses from China (A-570-092); steel nails from China (A-570-909); and welded stainless steel pressure pipe from Malaysia (A-557-815), Thailand (A-549-830) and Vietnam (A-552-816). These orders will be revoked unless Commerce finds that revocation would lead to dumping and the International Trade Commission finds that revocation would result in injury to U.S. industry, Commerce said.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping duty orders on strontium chromate from Austria (A-433-813) and France (A-427-830), Commerce said in a notice released Sept. 30.