The Commerce Department issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on vanillin from China (A-570-172/C-570-173). The CVD investigation covers entries Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2023. The AD investigation covers entries Oct. 1, 2023 - March 31, 2024.

The Commerce Department is leaving in place an agreement suspending antidumping duties on sugar from Mexico (A-201-845), it said last week in the final results of an administrative review. Mexican exporters remain in compliance with the suspension agreements, Commerce said. Commerce already extended the countervailing duty suspension agreement on Mexican sugar in March (see 2403250044).

The Commerce Department preliminarily found that imports of the hydrofluorocarbon blend R-410B from Mexico, made using the Chinese HFC components R-32 and R-125 and exported to the U.S. for processing into the HFC blend R-410A, aren't circumventing antidumping duties on HFC blends from China (A-570-028). As a result, Commerce won't suspend liquidation or require AD cash deposits on such imports at this time, it said in a July 2 notice. Commerce may still find circumvention in the final results of its anti-circumvention inquiry.

The Commerce Department is setting new countervailing duty cash deposit requirements for imports of paper plates from China (C-570-165) and Vietnam (C-552-840), after finding countervailable subsidization of producers and exporters in the two countries in the preliminary determinations of its CV duty investigations. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements would generally take effect for entries on or after July 1, the date that the preliminary determinations were published in the Federal Register, but Commerce is making the suspension of liquidation and CV duty cash deposits retroactive to approximately April 2 for most Chinese and Vietnamese companies.

Suspension of liquidation and antidumping and countervailing duty cash deposit requirements took effect June 28 for imports of ferrosilicon from Russia (A-821-838/C-821-839), after the Commerce Department made affirmative preliminary determinations in its ongoing AD/CVD investigations.

The International Trade Commission published notices in the July 1 Federal Register on the following AD/CVD injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):

The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register July 1 on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):

The International Trade Commission is beginning a formal enforcement proceeding to consider allegations that Huizhou Green Giant Technology and Utopban (d/b/a Vegega) are violating a limited exclusion order and cease and desist orders barring import and sale of their raised garden beds (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1334) (see 2403260075), the ITC said in a notice last week. Vego Garden, the complainant in the underlying Section 337 investigation, says Green Giant and Utopban have continued to import or sell products manufactured using a misappropriated trade secret, in violation of the limited exclusion and cease and desist orders.

The International Trade Commission is issuing a limited exclusion order banning imports of self-balancing electric skateboards (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1386) from the Chinese company Floatwheel, it said in a notice last week. The order concludes a Section 337 investigation the ITC launched in January (see 2401100059), based on allegations by Future Motion that Floatwheel, along with three other companies, are importing one-wheeled electric skateboards that copy its patented technologies. Future Motion subsequently withdrew its allegations against the other three companies -- Smilo, Gaea and SoverSky. Floatwheel didn’t respond to the allegations and was found to be in default.

A coalition of U.S. manufacturers seeks the imposition of new antidumping and countervailing duties on imports of low-speed personal transportation vehicles from China, it said in petitions recently filed with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission. Commerce will now decide whether to begin AD/CVD investigations, which could result in the imposition of permanent AD/CVD orders on low-speed personal transportation vehicles, commonly known as golf carts, and the assessment of AD/CVD on importers.