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ITA Lists Recently Completed, Pending AD/CVD Scope Rulings, Etc.

The International Trade Administration issued its quarterly list of (i) completed antidumping and countervailing duty scope rulings and (ii) anticircumvention determinations. The following list covers completed scope and anticircumvention rulings for the period Jan. 1, 2013, through March 31, 2013:

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Scope Rulings

Brazil

A-351-841: Polyethylene Film, Sheet and Strip from Brazil

Terphane, Inc. and Terphane, Ltda; Certain co-polymer surface films are not within the scope of the antidumping duty order, provided the performance-enhancing co-polymer layer is greater than 0.00001 inches thick, as determined by U.S. Customs and Border Production; Jan. 7, 2013.

Italy

A-475-818/C-475-819: Certain Pasta from Italy

Valdigrano di Flavio Pagani S.r.L.; Valdigrano’s pasta product which contains less than 2 percent egg white is within the scope of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders; preliminary ruling March 25, 2013.

People’s Republic of China

A-570-901: Certain Lined Paper Products from China

Franklin Mill; Lined notebooks and Grid notebooks are not within the scope of the antidumping duty order; preliminary ruling Jan. 16, 2013.

A-570-901: Certain Lined Paper Products from China

Esselte Corporation; Stone paper notebooks are within the scope of the antidumping duty order; Feb. 27, 2013.

A-570-504: Petroleum Wax Candles from China

Signature Brands, LLC; five of Signature Brand’s candles, meeting all the requirements as specified in the final scope determination, are not within the scope of the antidumping duty order, and 17 of Signature Brand’s candles, which did not meet all of the requirements, are within the scope of the antidumping duty order; March 7, 2013.

A-570-970 and C-570-971: Multilayered Wood Flooring from China

Alston Inc.; Alston’s two-ply hybrid flooring is not within the scope of the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders; March 12, 2013.

A-570-967 and C-570-968: Aluminum Extrusions from China

Tesla Wall System; Tesla’s curtain walls with non-Chinese extrusions are not within the scope of the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders; March 14, 2013.

A-570-967 and C-570-968: Aluminum Extrusions from China

Asia Sourcing Corporation; ASC’s aluminum boat and dock ladders, models ESG2 and ASC4, are not within the scope of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders, and ASC’s ladders, models ASE, ASH, and DJX3-W, and strip door mounting brackets are within the scope of the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders; March 20, 2013

Anticircumvention Determinations

People’s Republic of China

A-570-916 and C-570-917: Laminated Woven Sacks from China

Laminated Woven Sacks Committee and its individual members; laminated woven sacks produced with two ink colors printed in register and a screening process are not circumventing the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders; Feb. 14, 2013.

A-570-894: Certain Tissue Paper Products from China

Seaman Paper Company of Massachusetts, Inc.; exports to the United States of certain tissue paper products produced in India by A.R. Printing & Packaging (India) Pvt. Ltd. from China-origin jumbo rolls and/or cut sheets of tissue paper are circumventing the antidumping duty order; preliminary determination Feb. 27, 2013.

(Federal Register 07/18/13)