The International Trade Commission is publishing notices in the March 29 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 International Trade Administration published notices in the March 29 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):
Thomas Steel Strip Corporation filed a petition March 27 requesting an antidumping duty investigation of diffusion-annealed, nickel-plated steel flat-rolled products from Japan (A-588-869). According to the petition, Japanese companies are dumping nickel-plated steel in the U.S. at rates from 37.7 to 73.5 percent less than their home market price levels.
Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the following voluntary recalls March 28 (country of manufacture in parentheses):
On March 28 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
On March 28 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 March 22-28:
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for March 29:
The Court of International Trade granted the Diamond Sawblades Manufacturing Coalition’s request for a preliminary injunction to prevent liquidation of entries of diamond sawblades from China produced and/or exported by Advanced Technology & Materials Co., Ltd., but denied the coalition’s request for an injunction against revocation of the antidumping duty order for the company.
The Court of International Trade awarded a penalty of $9.94 million against Callanish, after CBP had tried and failed three times to punish the company for abetting importers of evening primrose oil in violation of Food and Drug Administration directives. The company had been in default since the first hearing of the case in 2009, but the court had taken issue first with CBP’s alleged violations, and then with the amount of penalty sought. Section 592 penalties can’t be set at more than the domestic value, but without a domestic market for the banned primrose oil, CBP had trouble ascertaining the correct amount. This time, CBP used the entered value, reasoning that the importer wouldn’t have sold it for less.