The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes June 3 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 Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notice for June 4:
The Court of International Trade again remanded the final results of the 2008-09 antidumping duty administrative review on folding metal-top ironing tables from China (A-570-888). CIT’s first remand in August, which was not published as a slip opinion, focused on Commerce’s cotton fabric surrogate value calculation, financial statement selection, and brokerage and handling calculations for respondents Since Hardware and Foshan Shunde. This time, the court sustained some elements of Commerce’s remand redetermination, but again remanded for Commerce reconsideration of financial statement selection and brokerage and handling calculations.
The 30-day period to challenge scope rulings in court begins on the date the scope ruling is mailed by the Commerce Department, and is not triggered by email communications, said the Court of International Trade as it dismissed Medline Industries’ challenge. Medline had filed suit after Commerce emailed its lawyer a copy of the adverse scope ruling on wooden bedroom furniture from China. But the snail mail scope ruling from a month later actually triggered the period for filing suit, even though Commerce had allegedly misrepresented that no physically mailed scope ruling would be forthcoming. The case will proceed regardless, as Medline filed a separate challenge following its second receipt of the scope ruling. The company expressed concern, however, at the cost of having to appeal this dismissal of its first suit to protect itself from a jurisdictional challenge.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website May 31, 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.)
Mexico's Diario Oficial of June 3 lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy as follows:
The International Trade Commission is publishing notices in the June 3 Federal Register on the following AD/CV injury, Section 337 patent, and other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will appear in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department published notices in the June 3 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 consider revoking the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on laminated woven sacks from China (A-570-916 / A-570-917); the AD/CV duty orders on sodium nitrite from China (A-570-925 / C-570-926) and Germany (A-428-841); and the AD duty orders on non-malleable cast iron pipe fittings from China (A-570-875) and steel nails from China (A-570-909) in their automatic five-year sunset reviews scheduled to begin in July. Advance notice is given because automatic 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 and the International Trade Commission initiated the five-year Sunset Review of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod from Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Moldova, Trinidad and Tobago, and Ukraine (A-351-832 / C-351-833, A-560-815, A-201-830, A-841-805, A-275-804, and A-823-812); circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from China (A-570-910 / C-570-911); and silicon metal from Russia (A-821-817),