The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on frozen warmwater shrimp from Vietnam (A-552-802). Commerce determined that no companies under review qualify for a separate rate, making them part of the Vietnam-wide entity, and subject to the Vietnam-wide entity rate of 25.76%. Commerce will assess AD at this rate on subject merchandise from these 118 companies entered Feb. 1, 2022, through Jan. 31, 2023. A new 25.76% cash deposit rate takes effect for these 118 companies on Feb. 14, when these final results are to be published in the Federal Register.

The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on emulsion styrene butadiene rubber from Mexico (A-201-848), making no changes to its preliminary results. Commerce set an AD rate of zero percent for Industrias Negromex S.A. de C.V., the one mandatory respondent in the review. Because the rate is zero percent, that zero percent rate was also applied to three non-individually examined companies -- Continental Tire de Mexico S.A. de C.V., Hyundai Glovis Mexico S. de R.L. de C.V. and Pirelli Neumaticos S.A. de C.V.

On Feb. 12, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:

The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on Feb. 13:

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative seeks a second round of comments in connection with its biennial review of the operation of the USMCA "with respect to trade in automotive goods" (see 2311210026), following a hearing the agency held on Feb. 7 (see 2402050066), it said in a notice. Post-hearing comments are due by Feb. 28. In the review, USTR and the Interagency Committee on Trade in Automotive Goods are considering how USMCA rules affect the competitiveness, employment and investment in North America's automotive sector. USTR is required to publish a report on the subject every two years.

A climate policy adviser to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat and lead advocate for a domestic carbon tax paired with a carbon border tax, said he thinks the expiration of Trump tax credits in 2025 could create a window to pass some sort of carbon border adjustment tax, because Congress will be seeking revenue raisers to be able to continue the tax cuts.

CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:

A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Feb. 12, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.

CBP in January identified 424 shipments valued at more than $236 million for further examination based on the suspected use of forced labor, including goods subject to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act and withhold release orders, the agency said in its most recent operational statistics update. The value of those shipments is up from December, when CBP identified 450 shipments worth more than $187 million (see 2401260077). Also in January, CBP seized 1,814 shipments that contained counterfeit goods valued at more than $718 million if the items had been genuine, the agency said.

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