The Commerce Department on April 29 published its quarterly list of (i) completed antidumping and countervailing duty scope rulings and (ii) anti-circumvention determinations. The following list covers completed scope rulings for the period Jan. 1, 2025, through March 31, 2025:

The Commerce Department began administrative reviews for certain firms subject to antidumping and countervailing duty orders with March anniversary dates, it said in a notice April 28. Producers and exporters subject to any of these administrative reviews on China or Vietnam must submit their separate rate certifications or applications by May 12 in order to avoid being assigned high China-wide or Vietnam-wide rates.

The Commerce Department issued its final determination in the antidumping duty investigation on high chrome cast iron grinding media from India (A-533-930). Changes to cash deposit requirements set in this final determination took effect April 28.

The Commerce Department issued its final determination in its countervailing duty investigation on high chrome cast iron grinding media from India (C-533-931). Suspension of liquidation is currently not in effect for entries on or after Feb. 1, 2025, and Commerce will only require cash deposits of estimated CVD on future entries if it issues a CVD order.

The International Trade Commission published notices in the April 28 Federal Register on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (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 April 28 on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CVD rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):

The International Trade Commission has ended a Section 337 investigation on imports of laptop and desktop computers, tablet computers, streaming devices, televisions, cameras and components from Amazon and HP (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1380), it said in a notice to be published April 29. Complainant Nokia initially alleged in 2023 that Amazon and HP were importing various electronics that infringe seven of Nokia's patents covering motion compensated prediction inventions, improvements to video decoding techniques, encoding and decoding, and video compression (see 2311030010).

A domestic producer recently filed a petition with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission requesting new antidumping and countervailing duties on silicon metal from Angola, Australia, Laos, Norway, and Thailand. Commerce now will 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. Mississippi Silicon and Ferroglobe requested the investigation.

The Commerce Department issued its final determination in its countervailing duty investigation of certain alkyl phosphate esters from China (C-570-169), finding countervailable subsidization of producers and exporters. Suspension of liquidation is currently not in effect for entries on or after Feb. 1, 2025 and Commerce will require cash deposits of estimated CVD on future entries only if it issues a CVD order.

The Commerce Department issued its final determination in its antidumping duty investigation of certain alkyl phosphate esters from China (A-570-168). Changes to cash deposit requirements set in this final determination take effect April 25, the date they were published in the Federal Register.