The International Trade Administration issued the final results of its antidumping duty administrative review of certain preserved mushrooms from India (A-533-813) for one company, Agro Dutch Industries Limited. The ITA made no changes from its preliminary results, continuing to find Agro Dutch uncooperative and assigning it an adverse facts available AD rate of 114.76 percent. According to the preliminary results, Agro Dutch declined to respond to one section of the ITA's initial questionnaire. This rate is effective Feb. 21, and will be implemented by CBP soon.
The International Trade Administration amended its final results of the antidumping administrative review of tapered roller bearings from China (A-570-601), reducing Changshan Peer Bearing’s AD rate to 14.91 percent. Xiang Yang Automobile Bearing’s rate, which was based on Peer Bearing’s, was reduced as well. The changes were made because of mistakes in the ITA's calculations. These AD rates are effective Feb. 21.
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing changes to Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) used by petroleum refiners and importers to show compliance with their renewable fuel volume obligations under the Renewable Fuel Standard Program. The proposal would create a voluntary quality assurance program, and would provide for verification of all RINs for 2013. Other changes would ensure RINs for exported fuel are retired, EPA said.
On Feb. 19 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
In arguing that the Food and Drug Administration’s implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act has been too slow, “plaintiffs fail to appreciate the complexity of the tasks at hand and the real, concrete, and substantial progress the agency has made to date,” said the FDA in its reply to the Center for Food Safety’s Jan. 11 motion to compel issuance of several long-overdue FSMA regulations. The non-profit wants the Northern California District Court to mandate a timetable for FDA to issue FSMA regulations, including third-party auditing and the Foreign Supplier Verification Program.
On Feb. 19 the Foreign Agricultural Service issued the following GAIN reports:
The Foreign Trade Zones Board issued the following notices for Feb. 20:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Feb. 19, 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 Feb. 19, lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy as follows:
The International Trade Administration published notices in the Feb. 19 Federal Register on the following AD/CV proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):