A domestic producer recently filed petitions with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission requesting new antidumping duties on granular hexamethylenetetramine, known as hexamine, from China, Germany, India, and Saudi Arabia, as well as countervailing duties on hexamine from China and India. Commerce will now decide whether to begin AD/CVD investigations, which could result in the imposition of permanent AD/CVD orders and the assessment of AD and CVD on importers. Bakelite requested the investigation.
The Commerce Department issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping duty investigations on corrosion-resistant steel products from Australia (A-602-812), Brazil (A-351-862), Canada (A-122-871), Mexico (A-201-863), the Netherlands (A-421-818), South Africa (A-791-829), Taiwan (A-583-878), Turkey (A-489-855), the United Arab Emirates (A-520-811) and Vietnam (A-552-843), as well as its countervailing duty investigations on corrosion-resistant steel products from Brazil (C-351-863), Canada (C-122-872), Mexico (C-201-864) and Vietnam (C-552-844). The CVD investigations cover entries for the calendar year 2023. The AD investigations on Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Africa, Taiwan, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates cover entries July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024, and the AD investigation on Vietnam covers entries Jan. 1, 2024, through June 30, 2024.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on low-melt polyester staple fiber from South Korea (A-580-895). The agency set an AD rate of 2.46% for Toray Advanced Materials Korea, Inc. Any changes to Toray's cash deposit rate would take effect on the publication date of the final results of this review, currently due in early February. If Commerce finalizes these preliminary results, the agency will assess AD at importer-specific rates for entries from Toray entered Aug. 1, 2022, through July 31, 2023.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Sept. 30 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 Sept. 30 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 announced the opportunity to request administrative reviews by Oct. 31 for producers and exporters subject to 22 antidumping duty orders, five countervailing duty orders and two suspension agreements with October anniversary dates, in a Federal Register notice.
The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that in automatic five-year sunset reviews scheduled to begin in November it will consider revoking the antidumping duty and countervailing orders on aluminum wire and cable from China (A-570-095/C-570-096); carbon and alloy steel threaded rod from China (A-570-104/C-570-105) and India (A-533-887/C-533-888); vertical metal file cabinets from China (A-570-110/C-570-111); and welded stainless steel pressure pipe from China (A-570-930/C-570-931). It also will consider revoking the antidumping duty orders on acetone from Belgium (A-423-814), South Korea (A-580-899), Singapore (A-559-808), South Africa (A-791-824) and Spain (A-469-819); carbon and alloy steel threaded rod from Taiwan (A-583-865) and Thailand (A-549-840); malleable iron pipe fittings from China (A-570-881); mattresses from China (A-570-092); steel nails from China (A-570-909); and welded stainless steel pressure pipe from Malaysia (A-557-815), Thailand (A-549-830) and Vietnam (A-552-816). These orders will be revoked unless Commerce finds that revocation would lead to dumping and the International Trade Commission finds that revocation would result in injury to U.S. industry, Commerce said.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping duty orders on strontium chromate from Austria (A-433-813) and France (A-427-830), Commerce said in a notice released Sept. 30.
The Commerce Department has released its final determinations in the antidumping duty investigations on aluminum lithographic printing plates from China (A-570-156) and Japan (A-588-881). Cash deposit rates set in this final determination took effect Sept. 27.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Sept. 27 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):