The International Trade Administration continued to find dumped imports in its final antidumping duty determination on circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from the United Arab Emirates (A-520-805). AD rates rose slightly from the preliminary determination for most companies. If the International Trade Commission finds injury to U.S. industry, the ITA will issue an AD duty order. The ITA’s final determination is effective Oct. 22.
The International Trade Administration found no countervailable subsidies for exporters of circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from Vietnam (C-533-853) in its final determination, and so will refund CV cash deposits and release CV duty bonds that were posted following the ITA’s March 30 preliminary determination. The preliminary determination had found CV rates of zero to 8.06 percent for exporters of subject merchandise. As a result of this negative final determination, the ITA is terminating this CV duty investigation.
The International Trade Administration continued to find dumped imports in its final antidumping duty determination on circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from Vietnam (A-552-811). AD rates rose slightly from the preliminary determination for most companies. If the International Trade Commission finds injury to U.S. industry, the ITA will issue an AD duty order. The ITA’s final determination is effective Oct. 22.
The International Trade Administration initiated investigations of antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of hardwood and decorative plywood from China, it said in a fact sheet issued Oct. 18. According to the fact sheet, the International Trade Commission is set to make its preliminary injury determination by Nov. 13. Only if the ITC finds injury will the investigations continue. ITT will provide more details upon publication of the initiation notice in the Federal Register.
On Oct. 18 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
On Oct. 18 the Foreign Agricultural Service issued the following GAIN reports:
The Food Safety and Inspection Service revised export requirements and plant lists for the following countries for Oct. 12-18.
The Foreign Agricultural Service announced the availability of credit guarantees for sales of U.S. agricultural commodities under the Commodity Credit Corporation's Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102) for fiscal year 2013, for the following countries/regions:
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) announced pending new guarantee fee rates to be charged for coverage under the Commodity Credit Corporation’s Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102). These new guarantee fee rates will apply to applications for payment guarantees and amendment requests received on or after October 24, 2012, 12:01 a.m. (Eastern Time). FAS advised program participants that guarantee fee rates may change at any time.
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for Oct. 19: