Although some trade attorneys have been worrying that a Trump administration will discourage a Republican Congress from bringing back Generalized System of Preferences program tariff breaks for developing countries, members of the House Ways and Means Committee did not endorse that point of view.
The Commerce Department is amending the published final results of an antidumping duty administrative review on welded carbon steel standard pipes and tubes (pipe and tube) from India (A-533-502), based on a Nov. 7 final judgment in a court case challenging those final results. Commerce calculated a revised AD rate for Garg Tube Limited and Garg Tube Export LLP (collectively, Garg Tube) in the review, which covered the period May 1, 2018, through April 30, 2019. The new rates are applicable Nov. 17, 2024.
Members of the House Ways and Means Committee majority, who will lead the extension or expansion of the first Trump term income tax cuts, are expressing some hesitancy about using tariffs as a pay-for.
The Commerce Department is beginning an anti-circumvention inquiry to determine whether all imports of circular welded carbon quality steel pipe from Oman made from Chinese hot-rolled steel are circumventing antidumping and countervailing duties on circular welded carbon quality steel pipe from China (A-570-910/C-570-911), it said Nov. 19.
Certain types of wheel studs will now be exempt from antidumping duties on alloy and certain carbon steel threaded rod from China (A-570-104) and countervailing duties on carbon and alloy steel threaded rod from China (C-570-105), the Commerce Department said in the final results of a changed circumstances review. The new exemption takes effect for unliquidated entries since the beginning of 2022.
CBP has updated guidance further defining who is responsible for ensuring the truthfulness of origin documents such as origin declarations, origin statements and certification of origin documents.
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, in its annual report to Congress, said that ending de minimis for all e-commerce is one of its top 10 recommendations, and said that if Congress passes such a law, it should provide CBP adequate resources to implement and enforce the change.
The Commerce Department is amending the final results, published Oct. 17, of its antidumping duty administrative review on certain new pneumatic off-the-road tires from India (A-533-869) to correct a ministerial error in the calculation of the duty rates for a mandatory respondent and for 12 companies not selected for individual review. The agency calculated new AD cash deposit rates for the 13 companies, with slight changes to the original final calculations. These final results, effective Nov. 18, will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers for entries March 1, 2022, through Feb. 28, 2023.
In addition to tariff hikes expected in 2025, trade experts are also thinking about the 2026 review of USMCA, and the investment and supply chain planning uncertainty that is likely to follow.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the following voluntary recalls Nov. 14: