The third consecutive zero or de minimis antidumping duty rate received by Pastificio Attilio Mastromauro Granoro S.r.L. will result in revocation of the AD duty order for the company, said David Simon, counsel for Granoro. The company received its third consecutive zero rate in the Feb. 8 final results of the antidumping duty administrative review of pasta from Italy (A-475-818). The AD duty order will no longer apply to Granoro, so pasta exported by the company will not be subject to suspension of liquidation or cash deposit requirements.
On Feb. 7 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Food and Drug Administration’s Cincinnati District, in conjunction with Xavier University, will hold the “PharmaLink 2013” conference on the global pharmaceutical supply chain March 12-14 in Cincinnati. Topics on the agenda include the impact of new legislation on the global supply chain, FDA policy and guidance, and the impact of contract manufacturing on drug shortages. Advance registration ends Feb. 18, but registration will be available after that date and onsite at increased rates. Registration and the conference agenda are available here.
On Feb. 7 the Foreign Agricultural Service issued the following GAIN reports:
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced changes Feb. 7 to Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) electronic manuals. While some changes are minor, other changes may affect the admissibility of the plant products, including fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
The Food Safety and Inspection Service revised export requirements and plant lists for the following countries for Feb. 1-7:
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service adopted its interim final rule on imports of horses from contagious equine metritis-affected countries, with changes. The March 25, 2011, interim final rule added a certification requirement for imported horses 731 days of age or less, as well as new testing protocols for test mares and imported stallions and mares more than 731 days of age. This final rule revises some contagious equine metritis testing requirements for imported stallions and mares, and for test mares, that were amended in the interim rule.
Fischer and Citrosuco appealed a Dec. 6 Court of International Trade ruling sustaining the final results of the 2009-10 antidumping duty administrative review of orange juice from Brazil (A-351-840). The Brazilian company and its affiliated U.S. importer had argued that the ITA improperly (1) included bunker fuel surcharges in Fischer’s surrogate freight rate; (2) used window period sales in calculating Fischer’s constructed value for certain months of the period of review; and (3) used zeroing to calculate Fischer’s dumping margin. The court had found against the companies on all issues.
The Court of International Trade remanded the International Trade Administration’s decision to use India as the surrogate country to value respondents’ inputs in the 2009-10 administrative review of polyethylene terephthalate film, sheet and strip from China (A-570-924). The ITA used World Bank data from 2008 to find India an economically comparable country eligible for selection, when domestic parties had placed 2009 World Bank data on the record. The 2009 data coincided with part of the period of review, and was relied upon by the ITA in another review that did not find India to be economically comparable to China. Importantly, the ITA had already formulated its list of comparable candidate countries by the time the 2009 data was placed on the record, but had not made its final surrogate country selection. The court ordered the ITA to either explain its decision to use the 2008 data, or use the 2009 data to select a surrogate country. CIT also sustained the use of an Indian company’s financial statements to calculate surrogate financial ratios.
The International Trade Administration assigned Gem Year the separate antidumping rate of 55.16 percent, instead of the China-wide AD rate of 206 percent originally assigned, in a remand redetermination of the 2008-10 administrative review of steel threaded rod from China (A-570-932) that was sustained by the Court of International Trade Feb. 7. During the review, the ITA found that Gem Year had no entries for which liquidation was suspended to review, ignoring Gem Year’s entries of subject merchandise that had been liquidated due to an error by an unaffiliated importer, and assigned it to the China-wide entity. But in a September 2012 ruling, CIT said the ITA’s position that liquidated entries are unreviewable was unjustified by the statute and the regulations, because both only refer to “entries.” In sustaining the remand redetermination, the court said there were no “substantive challenges” to the results.