The Commerce Department made a preliminary affirmative antidumping determination that oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from Saudi Arabia (A-517-804) is being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. Commerce is directing CBP to suspend liquidation and require cash deposits of estimated AD duties on OCTG from Saudi Arabia, effective for subject merchandise entered on or after Feb. 25.
The Commerce Department made a preliminary affirmative antidumping determination that oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from Taiwan (A-583-850) is being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The agency preliminarily found dumping by Tension Steel and all other Taiwanese companies except for Chung Hung. As a result, Commerce will direct CBP to suspend liquidation and require cash deposits of estimated AD duties on OCTG from Taiwan, except for subject merchandise exported by Chung Hung, for all entries made on or after Feb. 25.
The Commerce Department will not suspend liquidation and impose an antidumping duty cash deposit requirement on imports of oil country tubular goods from South Korea (A-580-870), after finding South Korean companies didn't dump subject merchandise in the U.S. in its preliminary AD duty determination. The agency calculated zero AD duty rates for all respondents. Commerce will revisit the issue when it issues its final determination, and may at that point suspend liquidation and impose AD an duty cash deposit requirements if it finds dumping. If Commerce doesn't change its finding, then no AD duty order will be issued.
On Feb. 18-21 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
On Feb. 21 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for Feb. 24:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Feb. 21, 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 addcvd.cbp.gov. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)
A major hurdle CBP will face in implementing a Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) for exports will be convincing industry that the program adds value, said industry and government officials at the Feb. 20 meeting of the CBP Advisory Committee on Commercial Operations. The COAC Trusted Trader Subcommittee spent the past few months reaching out to exporters to find out how to make C-TPAT for exports work. The lesson was that securing the supply chain isn’t enough; exporters will need to see tangible benefits before they sign on, they said.
The Food and Drug Administration aims to sign another agreement with India on food that is similar to the Feb. 11 agreement on cooperation in regulating drugs and cosmetics, said FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg on a conference call with reporters Feb. 21. During her recent trip to India, Hamburg met with officials from the Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry about food exporting issues, and “had an understanding with our counterparts on the food side” to begin work on a memorandum of understanding on cooperation on food regulatory issues.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Feb. 21 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):