The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on steel propane cylinders from Thailand (A-549-839). Commerce set an AD rate of 2.17% for Sahamitr Pressure Container Plc., the only company under review, representing a slight increase from the preliminary rate of 2.12% it calculated. Subject merchandise from Sahamitr entered Aug. 1, 2021, through July 31, 2022, will be liquidated at importer-specific rates, Commerce said. The 2.17% AD duty cash deposit rate for Sahamitr takes effect Feb. 23, when the final results are to be published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on certain cold-rolled steel flat products from South Korea (A-580-881). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered Sept. 1, 2021, through Aug. 31, 2022.
EPA is finalizing increased fees for significant new use notices, pre-manufacture notices and other actions under the Toxic Substances Control Act, it said in a final rule Feb. 22. The rule, which also revises the agency’s cost estimates and methods for calculating future fees, roughly doubles current fees for many types of TSCA activities. It also finalizes six exemptions from some TSCA fees, including for importers of articles containing a chemical substance. The final rule takes effect April 22.
On Feb. 21, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts (after not having posted new ones for a number of days) on the detention without physical examination of:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on Feb. 22:
The leaders of the House Select Committee on China on Feb. 22 urged the Volkswagen Group to improve its compliance with the Uyghur Forced Labor Protection Act following a report that CBP seized thousands of the company’s Audi, Bentley and Porsche cars at U.S. ports for illegally containing parts made with forced labor in Xinjiang, China (see 2402150026).
The U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska on Feb. 8 approved a settlement between shipping companies Kloosterboer International Forwarding and Alaska Reefer Management and CBP and DOJ in the companies' suit against Jones Act penalties levied against them. The settlement's terms will see KIF and ARM pay $9.5 million, much less than the over $400 million sought by CBP for the Jones Act violations (Kloosterboer International Forwarding v. U.S., D. Alaska # 3:21-00198).
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Feb. 21, 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 issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
An importer should have included interest in a prior disclosure it filed after failing to pay antidumping and countervailing duties on an entry, CBP said in a recent ruling that denied the importer's protest of a subsequent bill from the agency.