Drawing pencils, colored pencils and #2 pencils exported from the Philippines by School Specialty are subject to an antidumping duty order on cased pencils from China, the Commerce Department said in a May 7 scope ruling.
The Commerce Department is amending the final results of an antidumping duty administrative review on heavy walled rectangular welded steel pipes and tubes from Mexico (A-201-847) to correct an error in its calculation for the AD rate for entries of subject merchandise from the one mandatory respondent, Productos Laminados de Monterrey S.A. de C.V. (Prolamsa), during the period Sept. 1, 2021, through Aug. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department finalized a new exemption from antidumping and countervailing duties for stainless steel flanges made to SAE J518 or ISO 6162 specification, the agency said in the final results of a changed circumstances review of the AD/CVD orders on stainless steel flanges from China (A-570-064/C-570-065) and India (A-533-877/C-533-878).
The exclusion from solar safeguard tariffs for bifacial solar panels -- originally meant to help utility-scale installations -- is about to end, the Biden administration announced May 16.
The Commerce Department is beginning an anti-circumvention inquiry on allegations that monosodium glutamate made in Malaysia using glutamic acid from China is circumventing the antidumping duty order on MSG from China (A-570-992), the agency said in a notice.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on May 15 said the scope of the antidumping duty order on circular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Thailand unambiguously includes dual-stenciled pipe, reversing the Court of International Trade's decision.
CBP has released its May 15 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 19), which includes the following ruling action:
The Commerce Department issued its final affirmative determinations in the antidumping duty investigations on mattresses from Bosnia and Herzegovina (A-893-002), Bulgaria (A-487-001), Myanmar (formerly Burma) (A-546-001), Italy (A-475-845), the Philippines (A-565-804), Poland (A-455-807), Slovenia (A-856-002) and Taiwan (A-583-873). Changes to cash deposit requirements set in these final determinations take effect May 15, the date they are scheduled for publication in the Federal Register.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
Section 301 China tariff changes outlined by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative May 14 will take effect approximately 90 days after a request for comments that will be issued next week. That includes a 100% tariff on Chinese-origin electric vehicles, as well as the jump to 25% Section 301 tariffs on steel and aluminum products, ship to shore cranes, lithium-ion electric vehicle batteries, battery parts for non-lithium-ion batteries, "some critical minerals" and face masks, and a bump to 50% tariffs on solar cells, syringes and needles, the White House said in a fact sheet.