The Commerce Department published notices in the April 17 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 issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on lightweight thermal paper from Germany (A-428-840). The agency made no changes from its preliminary results, continuing to find that Papierfabrik August Koehler AG did not cooperate in the review, and as a result assigning the company an adverse facts available (AFA) rate of 75.36 percent. The new rate is effective April 18, and will be implemented by CBP soon.
Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the following voluntary recalls April 16 (country of manufacture in parentheses):
On April 16 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
On April 16 the Foreign Agricultural Service issued the following GAIN reports:
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for April 17:
Thai Plastic Bags Industries appealed the Court of International Trade’s Feb. 11 decision to sustain the final results of the 2008-09 administrative review of polyethylene retail carrier bags from Thailand (A-549-821). CIT had remanded in June 2012 on zeroing and a component of constructed value (see 12062548). TPBI’s AD rate rose to 21.29 percent (from 20.15 percent) as a result of the recalculation (see 13021206).
Guangdong Yihua Timber Industry, a respondent in the Commerce Department’s 2007 antidumping duty administrative review on wooden bedroom furniture from China (A-570-890), appealed the Court of International Trade’s Feb. 5 decision to affirm the final results of that review (see 13020615). The proceeding had been subject to three CIT remands on different issues, including input data for calculation of surrogate values and the adverse facts available rate assigned to Orient International (see 11021816, 12040508, and 12091002, respectively.
Link Snacks appealed the Court of International Trade’s March 20 ruling in favor of CBP’s classification of its beef jerky as cured, rather than dried, beef. Link Snacks had argued that beef jerky is defined by the drying process used in its manufacture, not the curing process. The court was sympathetic to Link Snacks’ argument, but in the end found that it could not go against the plain meaning of the terms in the HTS (see 13032103).
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website April 16, 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.)