The Commerce Department began administrative reviews for certain firms subject to antidumping and countervailing duty orders with May anniversary dates. Producers and exporters subject to any of these administrative reviews on China or Vietnam must submit their separate rate certifications or applications on or about Aug. 5 to avoid being assigned high China-wide or Vietnam-wide rates.

The Commerce Department issued its final determination in its countervailing duty investigation on pea protein from China (C-570-155). Suspension of liquidation is currently not in effect for entries on or after April 16, 2024, and Commerce will require cash deposits of estimated CV duties on future entries only if it issues a CV duty order.

The Commerce Department has released its final determination in the antidumping duty investigation on pea protein from China (A-570-154). Cash deposit rates set in this final determination take effect July 5.

The International Trade Commission published notices in the July 2 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 2 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 Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on hot-rolled carbon steel flat products from India (A-533-820/C-570-821), Indonesia (A-560-812/C-560-813) and Thailand (A-549-817/C-549-818); laminated woven sacks from China (A-570-916/C-570-917); sodium nitrite from China (A-570-925/C-570-926); and steel propane cylinders from China (A-570-086/C-570-087); as well as the antidumping duty orders on hot-rolled carbon steel flat products from China (A-570-865), Taiwan (A-583-835) and Ukraine (A-823-811); persulfates from China (A-570-847); sodium nitrite from Germany (A-428-851); steel propane cylinders from Thailand (A-549-839); steel wire garment hangers from China (A-570-918); and stilbenic optical brightening agents from China (A-570-972) and Taiwan (A-583-848), Commerce said in a notice July 1.

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.