A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Web site as of May 2, 2012, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching on the listed CBP message number at http://addcvd.cbp.gov.
This is a reminder that the additional duties on certain passenger vehicle and light truck tires from China, imposed for a three-year period as a Section 421 safeguard, are set to expire on September 25, 2012. Under the current statute, the President may extend the safeguard measures until December 2013, following an investigation by the International Trade Commission initiated on the basis of a request by the President (the statute also allows for initiation on the basis of an industry petition, but sources at ITC said that no petition was filed before the statutory deadline). According to sources at ITC, the President has not requested extension of the measure to date.
Mexico's Diario Oficial of May 2, 2012, lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy as follows:
Pascal Lamy, director-general of the World Trade Organization and chairman of the Trade Negotiations Committee, reported to the General Council May 1 on progress in the Doha Round, and in particular the work of negotiating groups, according to the WTO. Lamy said the situation had not evolved much since his last report, but that he has a sense that Members wish to explore any opportunities to gain the necessary traction and make tangible progress soon. Highlights of his reports on negotiating groups follow:
The World Trade Organization said the Committee on Safeguards reviewed 26 safeguard actions taken by WTO members since October 2011, of which six were from Turkey and five from Indonesia, at a meeting on April 27, 2012. Other members reporting safeguard actions were Brazil, Dominican Republic, Egypt, India, Israel, Jordan, Mexico, the Philippines and Ukraine.
The International Trade Commission is publishing notices in the May 2, 2012, 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 a notice on May 1 initiating a sunset review that inadvertently listed the order under review as the antidumping order on activated carbon from China and the effective date as March 1. The correct order under review is instead the AD order on polyester staple fiber from China (A-570-905), as is stated in the ITA's April 2 advance notification of sunset reviews. Officials at the ITA said the ITA will issue a correction as soon as possible, and that it's still determining what effect the late publication of the corrected notice will have on deadlines. ITT will provide notice of the deadlines as soon as information is made available by the ITA.
The International Trade Administration issued a fact sheet May 2 announcing its affirmative final determinations in the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of high pressure steel cylinders from China (A-570-977 and C-570-978, respectively. According to the ITA's fact sheet, the final AD rates range from 6.62% to 31.21%, and final CV rate for the sole respondent and all other producer/exporters is 15.81%.
On May 1, 2012, the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
On May 1, 2012, the Foreign Agricultural Service issued the following GAIN reports: