The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on prestressed concrete steel wire strand from Thailand (A-549-820). The agency preliminarily calculated a zero percent AD rate for the only company under review, The Siam Industrial Wire Co., Ltd. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from Siam entered Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022, won't be assessed AD, and a zero percent AD cash deposit rate for Siam would take effect on the date of publication in the Federal Register of the final results of this review, which are due in June.

The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of the antidumping duty administrative review on stilbenic optical brightening agents from Taiwan (A-583-848). Commerce preliminarily calculated an AD rate of 1.04% for Teh Fong Min International Co., Ltd., also known as Teh Fong Ming International Co., Ltd. (TFM). Any changes to TFM's cash deposit rate would take effect on the publication date of the final results of this review. Once Commerce issues its final results, the agency will assess AD at importer-specific rates for entries of subject merchandise from TFM entered between May 1, 2022, and Nov. 26, 2022, it said.

The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its countervailing duty administrative review on forged steel fluid end blocks from India (C-533-894). The agency calculated a preliminary rate of 3.76% for Bharat Forge Limited and its affiliates Bharat Forge Utilities Limited and Saarloha Advanced Materials Private Limited, the only company under review. If that rate is finalized in the final results of this review, the 3.76% CVD rate would apply for cash deposit purposes, and for the purposes of assessments for entries from Bharat Forge in calendar year 2022. Changes to Bharat Forge's cash deposit rate would take effect beginning on the date of publication of the final results in the Federal Register.

The Commerce Department on Feb. 5 released the preliminary results of its antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on softwood lumber products from Canada (A-122-857/C-122-858). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set AD and CVD assessment rates for subject merchandise for the companies under review entered Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022.

The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on steel nails from South Korea (A-580-874). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers of subject merchandise entered July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022.

The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on passenger vehicle and light truck tires from South Korea (A-580-908). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers for subject merchandise entered Jan. 6, 2021, through June 30, 2022.

The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on polyethylene terephthalate film from India (A-533-824). Commerce found that SRF Limited/SRF Limited of India/SRF Limited Packaging Films did not undersell subject merchandise during the period of review, assigning it a zero percent AD rate. It also assigned that zero percent rate to Jindal Poly Films and Polyplex Corporation Ltd. Subject merchandise from all three companies entered July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022, will be liquidated without any assessment of AD duties, and future entries of subject merchandise exported by SRF, Jindal and Polyplex will not be subject to AD duty cash deposit requirements until further notice. The new zero percent AD cash deposit rates take effect Feb. 5, the date the final results were published in the Federal Register.

The International Trade Commission is adding DET Logistics (USA) Corporation as a respondent to its ongoing Section 337 investigation on power converter modules (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1370), it said in a Feb. 1 notice. DET joins Delta, Quanta and Foxconn as respondents to the investigation, which was launched in August based on a complaint from Vicor (see 2308160011). Vicor said the companies are importing power converter modules and computing systems that infringe on three of Vicor's patents related to power system technologies used in high density and high efficiency applications like "high-end" computing. The ITC is considering a limited exclusion order and cease and desist orders in the case.

The International Trade Commission seeks comments by Feb. 13 on a Section 337 complaint recently filed by Pax Labs that seeks a ban on imports of hemp and cannabis oil vaporizing devices from ALD and Stiiizy that allegedly infringe on its patents, the ITC said in a notice released Feb. 2. Pax said in its Jan. 30 complaint that Stiiizy and ALD, as well as their subsidiaries, are copying Pax’s patented technologies for managing condensation and leakage from hemp and cannabis oil vaporizers. Pax seeks a limited exclusion order and cease and desist orders against Stiiizy and ALD.

The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Feb. 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):