The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register April 16 on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CVD rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department has published the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on stainless steel sheet and strip in coils from South Korea (C-580-835). These final results will be used to set final assessments of CVD on importers for subject merchandise entered during calendar year 2022.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on certain metal lockers and parts thereof from China (A-570-133). Commerce will assess AD at rates determined in these final results on subject merchandise from the companies under review entered Aug. 1, 2022, through July 31, 2023.
On April 15, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service will impose an additional safeguard duty on certain sugars, syrups and molasses that fall under the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, it said in a Federal Register notice.
President Donald Trump was set to join talks at the White House with Japan April 16 “to negotiate Tariffs, the cost of military support, and ‘TRADE FAIRNESS,’” he said in a Truth Social post earlier in the day. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick were also set to attend, he said. “Hopefully something can be worked out which is good (GREAT!) for Japan and the USA!”
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website April 15, 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.
Retail companies with any level of exposure in their supply chains to Chinese companies or products need to be taking proactive steps to ensure that they will not fall afoul of Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act enforcement, a compliance expert told importers in a webinar hosted by Logistics Brief.
The state of California opened a lawsuit in the District Court for the Northern District of California on April 16 against President Donald Trump's ability to use the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose tariffs. The two-count complaint claims that Trump acted beyond his statutory authority granted by IEEPA to impose the "reciprocal" tariffs and the tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico, and that Trump's tariff actions usurp legislative authority in violation of the U.S. Constitution (State of California v. Donald J. Trump, N.D. Cal. # 3:25-03372).