The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for Sept. 3:
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Aug. 25-31:
A recently requested Section 337 ban on imports of laser-abraded denim would have a “tremendous detrimental impact” on the U.S. apparel and retail industries, said several industry groups in comments submitted to the International Trade Commission on Sept. 2. Because of the difficulty of distinguishing jeans that are given a distressed look by laser abrasion from jeans treated with another method like sandblasting, the ban would effectively prevent all imports of distressed-style jeans, said the American Apparel & Footwear Association, National Retail Federation, Retail Industry Leaders Association, and United States Fashion Industry Association in joint comments on public interest factors raised by RevoLaze’s Aug. 18 complaint.
Mexico's Diario Oficial of Sept. 1-2 lists notices from the Secretary of Economy as follows:
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Sept. 2 Federal Register on the following AD/CV injury, Section 337 patent, and other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department published notices in the Sept. 2 Federal Register 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 is amending the final determination from its antidumping duty investigation on oil country tubular goods from Ukraine (A-823-815) to correct a calculation error. The change raises the AD rate it assigned to Interpipe to 7.47% (from 6.73%). Commerce is also changing the rate it assigned to all other Ukrainian companies to 7.47%. The change will not affect current AD duty cash deposit requirements, because Commerce signed an agreement suspending its AD duty investigation in July that ended suspension of liquidation for OCTG from the Ukraine in return for a promise to end dumping (see 14071721). The investigation will resume and suspension of liquidation will be reinstated if Commerce finds Ukraine isn’t living up to its end of the deal.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on oil country tubular goods from China (C-570-9944). The agency calculated new rates for two Chinese exporters: Wuxi and Jiangsu Chengde. These final results will be used to set final assessments of CV duties on importers for entries between Jan. 1, 2012 and Dec. 31, 2012. New CV duty cash deposit rates set in this review will take effect Sept. 3.
On Aug. 29 - Sept 1 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
On Aug. 29 - Sept. 1 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports: