A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Oct. 1, 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 has released its Oct. 1 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 59, No. 40), which includes the following ruling action:

Given the White House's focus on trade enforcement, Customs rulings have become a way for importers to ensure they are following trade regulations appropriately.

Robert Palmer, former senior international trade compliance analyst at the Commerce Department, has joined boutique trade law firm Lighthill as a trade adviser, the firm announced on LinkedIn. Palmer joined Commerce in 2008, where he led antidumping duty and countervailing duty investigations across various products and countries. Palmer's LinkedIn profile says he retired from Commerce in April.

The International Trade Commission published notices in the Oct. 1 Federal Register on the following antidumping and countervailing duty 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 Oct. 1 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 Commerce Department is giving advance notice that in automatic five-year sunset reviews scheduled to begin in November it will consider revoking the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders on non-oriented electrical steel from China (A-570-996/C-570-997) and Taiwan (A-583-851/C-583-852); oil country tubular goods from China (A-570-943/C-570-944); and forged steel fittings from India (A-533-891/C-533-892), as well as the antidumping duty orders on non-oriented electrical steel from Germany (A-428-843), Japan (A-588-872), South Korea (A-580-872) and Sweden (A-401-809); forged steel fittings from South Korea (A-580-904); and frozen fish fillets from Vietnam (A-552-801). 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 announced the opportunity to request administrative reviews by Oct. 31 for producers and exporters subject to 20 antidumping duty orders, five countervailing duty orders and two suspension agreements with October anniversary dates, in a Federal Register notice.

On Sept. 30, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts (after not having posted new ones for a number of days) on the detention without physical examination of:

The Commerce Department released its shutdown contingency plan on Sept. 29, which stated that only 60 out of 1,272 International Trade Association employees are excepted from furlough as "most services and activities" of the agency will cease, though the Bureau of Industry and Security's work on Section 232 investigations will continue.