A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website May 30, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at http://adcvd.cbp.dhs.gov/adcvdweb.
The Food and Drug Administration finalized its guidance for agency staff on food facility registration, including Food Safety Modernization Act provisions for registration renewal and suspension of registration. Under the policies outlined by FDA, food imports from facilities with lapsed or suspended registrations are to be held at the port of entry. Staff should also notify the FDA Division of Food Defense Targeting (formerly the Prior Notice Center) so it can target food imports from the offending facilities, it said.
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The International Trade Commission published notices in the May 30 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 May 30 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 giving advance notice that it and the International Trade Commission will next month consider revoking the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on tow-behind lawn groomers and parts thereof from China (A-570-939/C-570-940) in their automatic five-year sunset reviews scheduled to begin in July. Advance notice is given because sunset reviews have short deadlines. An order will be revoked unless Commerce finds that revocation would lead to a continuation or recurrence of dumping and the ITC finds that revocation would result in continuation or recurrence of material injury to a U.S. industry. As a result, a negative determination by either Commerce or the ITC would result in the revocation of these orders.
The Commerce Department announced the opportunity to request administrative reviews by June 30 for producers and exporters subject to 12 antidumping duty orders and one countervailing duty order with June anniversary dates.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began a five-year sunset review of the antidumping duty order on frozen fish fillets from Vietnam (A-552-801).
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review and a concurrent new shipper review on steel wire garment hangers from China (A-570-918). The agency determined that most companies subject to this review didn't demonstrate independence from Chinese government control, and assigned them the high China-wide rate. Commerce only calculated rates for Shanghai Wells and new shipper Yingqing. The new rates will be used to set assessments of AD duties for entries of hangers from China between October 2011 and September 2012. New AD cash deposit rates set in this review will take effect June 2.
The Commerce Department preliminarily found that exporters of polyethylene retail carrier bags (PRCBs) from Taiwan (A-583-843) are circumventing antidumping duties on the product. The agency is suspending liquidation and requiring AD duty cash deposits on these unfinished PRCBs from Taiwan entered on or after July 31, 2013. The bags, which are being imported from Taiwan into the U.S., only need their handles die cut and their bottoms sealed to become finished PRCB that would be subject to duties. Commerce began an anticircumvention inquiry in 2013 after domestic alleged that the conversion process required to finish the bags is so minor and insignificant that Commerce should find the unfinished bags subject to the order.