A Rockville, Md., man was arrested March 7 for allegedly exporting tens of thousands of dollars of industrial parts manufactured by U.S. companies to Iran, in violation of U.S. trade sanctions, said Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Mehdi Khorramshahgol, 49, a U.S. citizen and Iranian national, was charged with conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, ICE said.
The Court of International Trade remanded the final results of an antidumping duty new shipper review on folding metal tables and chairs from China (A-570-868), for the International Trade Administration to reconsider and explain its selection of a surrogate value for one of plaintiff Xinjiamei Furniture’s inputs. The ITA’s chosen value represented only one-fiftieth of one percent of production of cold-rolled steel input from only one major Indian producer, and the input’s value was three times as high as that from the data Xinjiamei placed on the record.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website March 11, 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 March 11, lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy as follows:
U.S. exports of used electronic products totaled $1.45 billion in 2011, according to an International Trade Commission report. The report, “Used Electronic Products: An Examination of U.S. Exports,” is based on a recently finished investigation conducted at the request of the U.S. Trade Representative.
The International Trade Commission is publishing notices in the March 11 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 issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review of preserved mushrooms from China (A-570-851), calculating a separate rate for Blue Field (Sichuan) Food Industrial Co., and assigning two companies to the China-wide entity for noncooperation. These preliminary results are not in effect. The ITA may modify them in the final results of this review and change the estimated AD cash deposit rate for this company.
The International Trade Administration issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review of frozen warmwater shrimp from India (A-533-840) for 195 producers/exporters. These preliminary results are not in effect. The ITA may modify them in the final results of this review and change the estimated AD cash deposit rate for this company.
The International Trade Administration issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review of frozen warmwater shrimp from Vietnam (A-570-893). The ITA preliminarily decided not to grant Nha Trang's request for revocation, because the company did not receive a zero or de minimis AD rate in last year's administrative review. These preliminary results are not in effect. The ITA may modify them in the final results of this review and change the estimated AD cash deposit rate for this company.
The International Trade Administration issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review of frozen warmwater shrimp from China (A-570-893), calculating a preliminary AD rate of zero for Zhanjian Regal, and assigning Hilltop International to the China-wide entity for noncooperation. These preliminary results are not in effect. The ITA may modify them in the final results of this review and change the estimated AD cash deposit rate for this company.