The International Trade Administration initiated a new shipper review for the antidumping duty order on freshwater crawfish tail meat from China (A-570-848) at the request of Deyan Aquatic Products and Food Co., Ltd. The ITA will determine if this company is eligible for an estimated AD cash deposit rate other than the China-wide entity rate it currently receives.
Chinese company GGB Bearing Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. was assigned an antidumping cash deposit rate of 12.64 percent in the final results of a new shipper review of tapered roller bearings and parts thereof, finished and unfinished from China (A-570-601). This rate, which is effective Oct. 30, is expected to be implemented by CBP soon.
The International Trade Administration corrected the final determination in a Section 129 proceeding on the antidumping duty order on circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from China (A-570-910), because the Aug. 30 notice omitted the AD cash deposit rate for one manufacturer/exporter combination. This rate, which is effective Aug. 21, will be implemented by CBP soon.
On Oct. 26-28 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
On Oct. 26 the Foreign Agricultural Service issued the following GAIN reports:
The Bureau of Industry and Security is postponing its Oct. 30 meeting of the Sensors and Instrumentation Technical Advisory Committee due to Hurricane Sandy, it said. The meeting will now be held Nov. 8.
Itochu Building Products appealed a Court of International Trade ruling against its challenge of the effective date for partial revocation of the antidumping duty order on steel nails from China for four types of nails. In September, CIT said that although both domestic parties and Itochu requested an earlier effective date for the partial revocation, Itochu waived its right to challenge the later effective date selected by the International Trade Administration when it failed to comment on the later date following its announcement in the ITA’s preliminary results of the changed circumstances review. Through its lack of action, Itochu effectively communicated to the ITA that it no longer objected to the later effective date, CIT said.
A Taiwanese national was sentenced to two years in prison Oct. 24 for helping to obtain and export military sensitive parts for Iran, in violation of the Iranian trade embargo, said Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The indictment charged Susan Yip, 35, a citizen of Taiwan, along with Mehrdad Foomanie (aka Frank Foomanie) of Iran, and Merdad Ansari of the United Arab Emirates, with conspiracy to violate the Iranian Transaction Regulations, conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Yip had pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge July 20, admitting that from Oct. 9, 2007 to June 15, 2011, she acted as a broker and conduit for Foomanie to buy items in the United States and have them unlawfully shipped to Iran.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website Oct. 26, 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 http://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.)
The Department of Homeland Security has made progress in developing a strategy of “resilience,” or the ability of ports and other infrastructure to “resist, absorb, recover from, or adapt to adversity,” but still has a ways to go in implementing and streamlining its efforts, said the Government Accountability Office in a report issued Oct. 25. The report, entitled “Critical Infrastructure Protection: An Implementation Strategy Could Advance DHS’s Coordination of Resilience Efforts across Ports and Other Infrastructure,” follows a GAO investigation consisting of document reviews and interviews with DHS officials, including port visits, that was requested by three Congressmen.1