The Commerce Department published notices in the June 19 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 bond option for merchandise produced and exported by Hubei Nature Agricultural Industry Co., Ltd. will end, as the Commerce Department rescinded its new shipper review of freshwater crawfish tail meat from China (A-570-848) for the company. According to Commerce, Hubei Nature had a sale to a U.S. company during the period of review, but the entry associated with that sale fell far outside of the review period. While Commerce can extend the review period, the entry was so far beyond the end of the review period that the agency determined such a long extension would imperil its ability to finish the review on time. Commerce said the deadline still hasn’t passed for requesting a new shipper review related to the sale, so Hubei Nature can request another one with a different period of review.
The Commerce Department made a preliminary affirmative antidumping determination that silica bricks and shapes from China (A-570-988) is being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The agency found preliminary AD rates of 84.89 to 91.16 percent. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements are effective June 20.
Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the following voluntary recalls June 18:
On June 18 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
On June 18, the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN report:
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes June 18 to Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) electronic manuals. While some changes are minor, other changes may affect the admissibility of the plant products, including fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
The Court of International Trade sustained the negative injury determination that ended the 2009 antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of standard steel fasteners from China and Taiwan, after finding the International Trade Commission justified its reliance on certain data on remand. Although the court originally remanded in October 2011 for ITC’s use of allegedly incomplete data (see 11102112), CIT accepted the ITC’s continued use of the data on remand because using different data wouldn’t have changed the ultimate finding of no injury to domestic industry, it said. As such, the court denied Nucor’s request for a new investigation.
After a decade of seesawing Commerce Department remand determinations on the issue, the Court of International Trade sustained the agency’s finding that critical circumstances did not exist for the 2001 antidumping duty investigation on honey from China (A-570-863). Commerce had originally found critical circumstances, which meant entries of subject merchandise from up to 90 days before the investigation’s preliminary decision were subject to AD duties. But a series of CIT and Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rulings took issue with Commerce’s findings, given the requirement that importers had to know the honey was being dumped for critical circumstances to exist. Honey from China had been subject to a suspension agreement that set minimum reference prices during the period of investigation, so it couldn’t be inferred that the importers knew dumping was taking place, the courts had said. In the end, the court agreed with Commerce that record evidence didn’t really show importer knowledge of dumping, given the appeals court’s rulings.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website June 18, 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.)