Texas United Chemical Company (TUCC) of Dallas evaded antidumping duties when importing xanthan gum from China and will face action per the Enforce and Protect Act, CBP ruled recently.
There was no disagreement at a June 12 hearing on the need to renew the African Growth and Opportunity Act before it expires about 15 months from now, and Democrats and Republicans on the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade also talked about changing the terms of "graduation" from AGOA. Democrats on the committee were more vocal than members of the Republican majority about the need to change AGOA before renewing it.
The Commerce Department is imposing even earlier retroactive antidumping and countervailing duties on imports of two hydrofluorocarbon blends from Malaysia when made with Chinese components. In a final determination of circumvention, the agency said it will suspend liquidation and require cash deposits for covered entries on or after Nov. 4, 2021.
Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., told a think tank audience that the U.S. needs to negotiate and Congress needs to ratify new broad trade agreements, so that the U.S. can develop long-term sources of processed minerals needed for electrification.
The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) R12i Receiver produced by industrial technology company Trimble is a U.S. product for government procurement purposes, even though its final assembly occurs in Thailand, CBP said in a notice of final determination released June 4.
Contradictory language in the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act -- which says the government may list entities that source items from Xinjiang, but says that the rebuttable presumption only applies to goods "produced by an entity on a list" -- may result in more litigation over the entity list, trade mavens say.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on non-refillable steel cylinders from China (A-570-126). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise from the companies under review entered May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2023.
CBP has imposed interim measures on 10 companies cited for allegedly evading antidumping and countervailing duties when importing oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from China.
The Commerce Department on June 5 announced a large decrease in antidumping duty cash deposit rates in effect for aluminum extrusions from Turkey (A-489-850), amending its preliminary determination in an ongoing AD investigation to correct calculation errors in the original. Effective May 7, the date that liquidation was suspended and AD cash deposit rates first took effect under the preliminary determination, the unadjusted AD rate for Erdoganlar falls from 85.14% to 10.11%, and the AD rate for Sistem falls from 45.41% to 19.86%. The unadjusted all-others rate consequently falls from 73.43% to 12.98%, and Commerce is also lowering the penalty rate assigned to non-cooperative companies from 605.72% to 48.43% (37.26% when adjusted for cash deposit purposes). The new rates are as follows:
Seko Logistics will still pursue its lawsuit challenging CBP's suspension of the company from Type 86 filing and the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism, despite CBP's conditional reinstatement of the customs broker, according to a June 4 statement from the company. The Chicago-area customs broker and freight forwarder says CBP still hasn’t fully provided its reasons for Seko’s initial suspension.