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.

The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on steel nails from China (A-570-909). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered Aug. 1, 2021, through July 31, 2022.

The Commerce Department is set to exempt more safes from its antidumping and countervailing duty orders on metal lockers from China (A-570-133/C-570-134), it said in a notice announcing the initiation and expedited preliminary results of a changed circumstances review.

The Commerce Department soon will suspend liquidation and set antidumping duty cash deposit requirements for imports of mattresses from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Myanmar, India, Italy, Kosovo, Mexico, the Philippines, Poland, Slovenia, Spain and Taiwan, it said in a fact sheet Feb. 26. The agency's preliminary determinations set AD rates at 217.38% for all Bosnian companies, 106.27% for all Bulgarian companies, 181.71% for all Myanmar companies, 257.06% for all Italian companies, 538.23% for all Filipino companies, 330.71% for all Polish companies, 744.81% for all Slovenian companies, and 624.5% for all Taiwanese companies, as well as rates ranging from 23.28% to 42.76% for Indian companies, 62.51% to 344.7% for Kosovan companies, 41.29% to 61.97% for Mexican companies and 10.74% to 280.28% for Spanish companies. AD suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements for these 12 countries 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 International Trade Commission published notices in the Feb. 26 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 Feb. 26 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 looks set to recognize an Indian company’s name change for the purposes of antidumping duties on polyethylene terephthalate film, sheet, and strip (PET film) from India (A-533-824). In the preliminary results of a changed circumstances review, the agency preliminarily found Garware Hi-Tech Films Limited is the successor-in-interest to Garware Polyester Limited. Commerce preliminarily found Garware Hi-Tech operates as materially the same business entity as Garware Polyester with respect to the production and sale of subject merchandise.

Boiled garlic cloves that are individually frozen and imported by Export Packers Company are subject to an antidumping duty order on fresh garlic from China, the Commerce Department said in a Feb. 21 scope ruling. Although frozen garlic has a different chemical composition than fresh garlic and is used in different recipes, it's not different enough to fall into the order’s exclusion for garlic subjected to further heat processing, the department said.

The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Feb. 23 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 is expanding its ongoing antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on quartz surface products from China (A-570-084/C-570-085), and may review the eligibility of some Malaysian companies that are currently ineligible to certify their goods are exempt because they aren’t Chinese, it said in a notice released Feb. 23.