The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that in automatic five-year sunset reviews scheduled to begin in April it will consider revoking the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on cast iron soil pipe from China (A-570-079/C-570-080); steel wheels from China (A-570-082/C-570-083); and utility scale wind towers from China (A-570-981/C-570-982). It also will consider revoking the AD orders on large residential washers from Mexico (A-201-842), and on utility scale wind towers from Vietnam (A-552-863). These orders will be revoked, or the investigation terminated, unless Commerce finds that revocation would lead to dumping and the International Trade Commission finds that revocation would result in injury to the U.S. industry, Commerce said.

The Commerce Department has released the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on cold-rolled steel flat products from South Korea (C-580-882). These final results, slightly lower than in the preliminary results, will be used to set final assessments of CV duties on importers for subject merchandise entered Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2021.

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on pasta from Italy and Turkey (A-475-818/C-475-819, A-489-805/C-489-806), Commerce said in a notice released Feb. 29.

The Commerce Department announced the opportunity to request administrative reviews by April 1 for producers and exporters subject to 35 antidumping duty orders, 21 countervailing duty orders and two suspended AD/CVD investigations with March anniversary dates.

The Commerce Department is setting new countervailing duty cash deposit requirements for imports of aluminum lithographic printing plates from China (C-570-157), after finding illegal subsidization of Chinese producers in the preliminary determination of its CV duty investigation. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after March 1, the date that the preliminary determination is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register.

The International Trade Commission published notices in the Feb. 28 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):

Nano Fire and Defender Safety seek a Section 337 investigation on alleged infringement by imports of products with their patented aerosol fire extinguishing technology, the ITC said in a notice Feb. 28. Nano Fire, which licenses the technology to Defender Safety, said Halma and its affiliate Halma Holdings, as well as FirePro Systems and Hochiki America are importing fire extinguishing devices that infringe on its patented fire extinguishing composition that needs no pressure storage. Nano Fire and Defender Safety seek a limited exclusion order and cease and desist orders against Halma, FirePro and Hochiki America. Comments are due to the ITC by March 7.

The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Feb. 28 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 soon will suspend liquidation and impose countervailing duty cash deposit requirements on imports of aluminum lithographic printing plates from China, it said in a fact sheet issued Feb. 27. Commerce set CVD rates ranging from 38.5% to 231.98% for all Chinese exporters, the agency said as it announced its preliminary determinations in its ongoing CVD investigations. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after the date of publication of the preliminary determinations in the Federal Register, which should occur in the coming days.

The Commerce Department is amending the final results of an antidumping duty administrative review on multilayered wood flooring (MLWF) from China (A-570-970) based on the final decision in a Court of International Trade case challenging those final results.