The Commerce Department issued a countervailing order on drawn stainless steel sinks from China (C-570-984). The order details a "gap period" of Dec. 4 -- April 9 of no CV duty liability due to the expiration of the provisional measures period.
The Commerce Department issued an antidumping duty order on drawn stainless steel sinks from China (A-570-983). The agency said it left out a producer-exporter combination rate from the final determination, so it amended the final determination rates to add the omitted AD rate. The order details a "gap period" of April 3-9 of no AD duty liability due to the expiration of the provisional measures period.
Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the following voluntary recalls April 9 (country of manufacture in parentheses):
On April 9 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
On April 9 the Foreign Agricultural Service issued the following GAIN reports:
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for April 10:
Giorgio Foods appealed a Court of International Trade ruling against its disbursement claim for funds collected as antidumping and countervailing duties, pursuant to the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act. Giorgio had indicated no position on questionnaires regarding three AD duty investigations on preserved mushrooms, and opposed another. The court, as in previous cases, found the company’s constitutional arguments had already been decided in previous cases, and said it didn’t have jurisdiction to hear a claim directed against domestic companies that had benefited from CDSOA funds (see 13030803).
Advanced Technology & Materials appealed a March 28 Court of International Trade order granting a preliminary injunction preventing liquidation of entries of diamond sawblades from China that it produced and exported (see 13032902). The entries had been subject to litigation over whether the company should have received a separate rate in the antidumping duty investigation on diamond sawblades from China, but the Commerce Department announced its intent to revoke the AD duty order for AT&M to implement a World Trade Organization ruling against the agency’s use of zeroing. The preliminary injunction prevented liquidation of entries of diamond sawblades from China produced and exported by AT&M, but did not prevent revocation for the company.
The Court of International Trade affirmed the adverse facts available countervailing duty rate assigned to Essar Steel Limited by the Commerce Department in the 2006-07 CV duty review on hot-rolled carbon steel flat products from India (C-533-821). The court had previously remanded the final results to Commerce on the basis that it didn’t corroborate the AFA CV rate (see 12101627. In its remand results, Commerce explained that it had taken subsidy rates from similar programs to come up with Essar’s rate. Essar and the Indian government had failed to cooperate in providing information on a specific subsidy program, so the similar programs were all Commerce had to go on, it said.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website April 9, 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.)