The Commerce Department has published the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on certain walk-behind lawn mowers and parts thereof from China (C-570-130). The agency calculated a new CVD cash deposit rate for Ningbo Daye Garden Machinery Co., Ltd., the only company under review. These final results will be used to set final assessments of CVD on importers for entries Oct. 30, 2020, through Dec. 31, 2021.
Antidumping and countervailing duty investigations launched a year ago on tin mill products from eight countries will all end without the imposition of AD/CVD, after the International Trade Commission on Feb. 6 ended its investigations of the remaining countries under investigation without finding injury.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Jan. 29-Feb. 4:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Feb. 5, 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 reminded importers of the upcoming "utilization expiration date" that will determine eligibility for a two-year grace period for solar cells and modules from Southeast Asia that the Commerce Department found are circumventing antidumping and countervailing duties on solar cells from China (see 2308180044).
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The International Trade Commission published notices in the Feb. 5 Federal Register on the following 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 Feb. 5 on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on prestressed concrete steel wire strand from Thailand (A-549-820). The agency preliminarily calculated a zero percent AD rate for the only company under review, The Siam Industrial Wire Co., Ltd. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from Siam entered Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022, won't be assessed AD, and a zero percent AD cash deposit rate for Siam would take effect on the date of publication in the Federal Register of the final results of this review, which are due in June.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of the antidumping duty administrative review on stilbenic optical brightening agents from Taiwan (A-583-848). Commerce preliminarily calculated an AD rate of 1.04% for Teh Fong Min International Co., Ltd., also known as Teh Fong Ming International Co., Ltd. (TFM). Any changes to TFM's cash deposit rate would take effect on the publication date of the final results of this review. Once Commerce issues its final results, the agency will assess AD at importer-specific rates for entries of subject merchandise from TFM entered between May 1, 2022, and Nov. 26, 2022, it said.