The Phytosanitary Certificate and Issuance Tracking (PCIT) system was down on the afternoon of May 10, 2012, reports the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. APHIS sent out several emails, beginning at about 12:30 p.m., saying PCIT was down due to a hardware problem at the hosting facility. APHIS said the PCIT application was then failed over to the Disaster Recovery site. At about 5 p.m., an APHIS email said all functionality in PCIT had been restored, except certificate printing may be slow. APHIS said the PCIT Training Site will be unavailable until it is failed back to the primary production site.
The Foreign Trade Zones Board is issuing the following notices for May 11, 2012:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of May 10, 2012, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching on the listed CBP message number at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted petitions for a rehearing of GPX International Tire Corp. v. United States, in which CAFC ruled in December 2011 that countervailing duties may not be imposed on goods from China or other non-market economies (NME), in light of the new law upholding the application of CV duties to NME countries. CAFC remanded the case to the Court of International Trade to determine the legislation's constitutionality, in particular that of a "special rule" created by varying effective dates in the provision that, in this case,and according to CAFC "perhaps a few others," allow both antidumping and CV duties to be imposed without providing a mechanism to account for potential double counting.
Mexico's Diario Oficial of May 10, 2012, lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy as follows:
The International Trade Administration published notices in the April May 10, 2012, 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):
The International Trade Administration issued the preliminary results of its administrative review of the antidumping duty order on floor-standing, metal-top ironing tables and certain parts thereof from China (A-570-888) for one company, Foshan Shunde Yongjian Housewares & Hardware Co., Ltd. The ITA said that, as sole respondent, Foshan Shunde did not cooperate with its requests in this review, Foshan Shunde has preliminarily been assigned the China-wide Entity rate. These preliminary results are not in effect. The ITA may modify them in the final results of this review and change the estimated AD cash deposit rate for this company.
Effective May 10, 2012, the International Trade Administration is initiating an anti-circumvention inquiry to determine whether Indian company AR Printing and Packaging India Pvt. Ltd.'s tissue paper products are circumventing the antidumping duty order on certain tissue paper products from China (A-570-894).
The International Trade Administration issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review of certain large diameter carbon and alloy seamless standard, line, and pressure pipe (over 4 1/2 inches) from Japan (A-588-850) for four respondents. The ITA determined that all four respondents did not have reviewable sales, so their AD cash deposit rates will not change.
The International Trade Administration issued the final results an antidumping duty new shipper review of certain frozen fish fillets from Vietnam (A-552-801), which sets a zero AD cash deposit rate for the manufacturer/exporter Thuan An Production Trading & Services Co., Ltd (aka TAFISHCO). No AD cash deposit will be required for shipments of subject merchandise both produced and exported from Thuan An entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the effective date of May 10, 2012.