The Commerce Department on Dec. 20 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 July 1, 2024, through Sept. 30, 2024:
Antidumping and Countervailing Duties (AD/CVD)
Antidumping and countervailing duties (AD/CVD) are tariffs levied on imported merchandise sold in the U.S. at artificially low or subsidized prices, to level the playing field for U.S. companies. Antidumping duties result from a foreign industry selling its products at lower than the price it sells goods in its home country to gain a competitive edge. Countervailing duties result from subsidies from a foreign government to specific industries or products to gain a competitive advantage abroad. A U.S. company may petition the International Trade Commission (ITC) and Commerce Department to determine whether the goods subject to the petition were sold for less than fair value or benefited from unfair subsidization. If Commerce finds evidence of subsidization or dumping, and the ITC finds it caused injury to a domestic industry, they will direct CBP to suspend liquidation of entries of the relevant goods and begin collecting AD/CVD on those entries.
A domestic producer recently filed a petition with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission requesting new antidumping and countervailing duties on erythritol from China. Commerce will now 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. Cargill Inc. requested the investigation.
A domestic producer recently filed a petition with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission requesting new antidumping and countervailing duties on active anode material from China. Commerce will now 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. The American Active Anode Material Producers requested the investigation.
The Commerce Department will begin administrative reviews for certain firms subject to antidumping and countervailing duty orders with November anniversary dates, it said in a notice published Dec. 18. Producers and exporters subject to administrative reviews on products from China or Vietnam must submit their separate rate certifications or applications on or about Jan. 17 to avoid being assigned high China-wide or Vietnam-wide rates.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on aluminum foil from Turkey (A-489-844/C-489-845). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set AD assessment rates for subject merchandise for the companies under review entered Nov. 1, 2022, through Oct. 31, 2023, and CVD assessment rates for entries during calendar year 2022.
The Commerce Department on Dec. 13 published the preliminary results of its antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on aluminum foil from Oman (A-523-815/C-523-816). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set AD assessment rates for subject merchandise for the companies under review entered Nov. 1, 2022, through Oct. 31, 2023, and CVD assessment rates for entries in calendar year 2022.
Antidumping duty and countervailing duty investigations on overhead door counterbalance torsion springs from China and India will continue, after the International Trade Commission on Dec. 12 voted that there is a “reasonable indication” that imports of the product are injuring U.S. industry, the ITC said in a news release. The Commerce Department will now consider whether to impose AD/CVD cash deposit requirements on torsion springs from the two countries, in preliminary determinations due in Jan. 22 for CVD and on or about April 7 for AD.
The Commerce Department issued a final rule making various changes to its antidumping and countervailing duty procedures, notably altering its nonmarket economy policy in AD cases by allowing entities in third countries "owned or controlled" by nonmarket economies to be subject to the country-wide AD rate for that nation.
Antidumping duty and countervailing duty investigations on paper file folders from Cambodia and Sri Lanka will continue, after the International Trade Commission on Dec. 4 voted that there is a “reasonable indication” that imports of the product are injuring U.S. industry, the ITC said in a news release. The Commerce Department will now consider whether to impose AD/CVD cash deposit requirements on file folders from these countries, in preliminary determinations due in Jan. 16 for CVD and early April for AD.
The Commerce Department issued its final determinations in the antidumping duty investigations on mattresses from Germany (A-428-852), Japan (A-588-882), the Netherlands (A-421-817) and Trinidad and Tobago (A-274-810). Cash deposit rates set in these final determinations take effect Dec. 9.