The International Trade Administration issued a fact sheet on May 30, 2012 announcing its affirmative preliminary determination in the countervailing duty investigation of Large Residential Washers from Korea (C-580-869). According to the ITA’s fact sheet, mandatory respondents Daewoo Electronics Corporation, LG Electronics Inc., and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. received preliminary CV rates of 70.58%, 0.22% (de minimis) and 1.20%, respectively, and all other Korean producers/exporters received a preliminary CV rate of 1.20%. As a result of the preliminary determination, the ITA will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection to collect a cash deposit based on these preliminary rates, except for LG, which was assigned a de minimis rate. Pursuant to the ITA's October 2011 final rule, no bond will be accepted in lieu of a cash deposit.
The Court of International Trade affirmed the International Trade Administration’s voluntary remand redetermination of the final results of the 2007-08 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on frozen warmwater shrimp from Vietnam (A-552-802). The ITA had requested the voluntary remand to correct the methodology it used to determine the AD rate for 16 non-individually selected separate rate respondents, pursuant to earlier CIT rulings against this methodology with respect to the 2006-07 review of the same AD order.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued its instructions for the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (CTPA), which takes effect for qualifying goods entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after May 15, 2012. The notice gives an overview of the CTPA rules of origin, as well as instructions for handling "WCO tariff number" discrepancies. CBP also provides information on its process for verifying importer claims, the SPI "CO", post-importation claims and protests, etc.
CBP continues to consider combining Importer Self-Assessment (ISA) with C-TPAT, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner David Aguilar said during a House May 17 hearing on Customs issues . He also said critical fixes to already deployed ACE capabilities are among the major goals for CBP in the coming year. E-Manifest: Rail and Sea (M1), simplified entry, and the integration of export capability are also top priorities, he said in response to questions following his written testimony.
The Court of International Trade sustained the International Trade Administration’s calculation of antidumping rates for separate rate respondents in its redetermination of the AD final determination of narrow woven ribbons with woven selvedge from China (A-570-952). The ITA’s redetermination was pursuant to a CIT partial remand of the final determination at issue. Chinese plaintiff Yangzhou Bestpak Gifts & Crafts Co., Ltd. challenged the ITA’s use of a simple average of the 247.65% Adverse Facts Available rate for one mandatory respondent and the de minimis rate for the other to obtain a 123.83% rate for the separate rate respondents, including Bestpak. While the CIT issued its original partial remand in the belief that there might be additional choices from which the ITA could calculate the separate rate, the CIT has now sustained the ITA’s calculation after considering the ITA’s explanation because in this case, according to CIT, those additional choices do not exist.
The International Trade Administration issued the preliminary results of the administrative review of the countervailing duty order on certain welded carbon steel standard pipe from Turkey (C-489-502) for two companies. The CV rate for both companies under review was found to be de minimis1. These CV rates are not in effect. The ITA may modify them in the final results of this review and change the estimated CV cash deposit rate for these companies.
The International Trade Administration made a preliminary negative countervailing duty determination that countervailable subsidies are not being provided to producers and exporters of circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from Oman (C-523-802). The ITA preliminarily found de minimis CV rates for the single mandatory respondent and, consequently, "All-Others". As such, ITA will not direct U.S. Customs and Border Protection to suspend liquidation of entries of circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from the Oman, and, for the time being, there will be no CV cash deposit or bond requirements.
The International Trade Administration made a preliminary affirmative countervailing duty determination that countervailable subsidies are being provided to exporter/manufacturers of circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from Vietnam (C-552-810). The ITA found preliminary CV rates of de minimis to 8.06%, which are effective on March 30, 2012. U.S. Customs and Border Protection is expected to implement these CV cash deposit/bond requirements soon.
The International Trade Administration announced its affirmative preliminary determinations in the countervailing duty investigations of circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from India and Vietnam, and negative preliminary determinations in the CV duty investigations of circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from Oman and the United Arab Emirates. According to the ITA’s fact sheet, producers/exporters of subject merchandise from (1) India and (2) Vietnam received preliminary CV rates of (1) 285.95%, and (2) de minimis to 8.06%, respectively. As a result of the preliminary affirmative determinations for India and Vietnam, the ITA will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection to collect a cash deposit or bond based on these preliminary CV rates. Because of the negative preliminary determinations, no cash deposit or bond will be required for imports from Oman and the UAE.
The International Trade Administration issued Federal Register notices on its recently initiated antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on drawn stainless steel sinks from China (A-570-983 and C-570-984, respectively). The ITA will determine whether imports of stainless steel sinks from China are being, or are likely to be, sold in the U.S. at less than fair value, and whether manufacturers, producers, or exporters of stainless steel sinks from China receive countervailable subsidies.