The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on steel nails from Taiwan (A-583-854). Commerce said it made no changes to the preliminary results of this review. Commerce will set assessments of antidumping duties for subject merchandise entered July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024. New cash deposit rates set in these final results take effect June 12.
The Commerce Department published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on oil country tubular goods from Argentina (A-357-824). Commerce changed the calculation it made in the preliminary results, setting an incrementally lower final AD rate for the only company under review, Siderca S.A.I.C. The preliminary 6.8% AD rate became 6.76%. The agency will calculate importer-specific rates for entries from Siderca from May 11, 2022, through Oct. 31, 2023. The new 6.76% AD cash deposit rate for Siderca is effective June 12, when the final results were published in the Federal Register.
USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service said El Salvador and Belize have been added to the list of regions it considers to be affected by the screwworm pest, according to a Federal Register notice released June 12. Their inclusions were effective Dec. 17, 2024, and Jan. 7, 2025, respectively.
Stephen Vaden, current judge on the Court of International Trade, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as deputy secretary of agriculture. The Senate confirmed Vaden with a 51-44 vote split exactly down party lines. Five senators -- Ted Budd, R-N.C., Jon Ossoff, R-Ga., Thom Tillis R-N.C., Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., and Jack Reed, D-R.I., -- didn't take part in the vote.
USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service is proposing a number of amendments to its promotion order on Christmas trees, one of which enables importers to request refunds of assessments paid on trees that were shipped to the U.S. but not sold.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website June 11, 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:
President Donald Trump, at a June 12 event rolling back a California standard that by 2035, all vehicles sold would be zero-emission, pointed to his original Section 301 tariff on Chinese electric vehicles as the reason you don't see those cars in the U.S.
The value of the steel in refrigerator-freezers; dryers; washing machines; dishwashers; chest and upright freezers; cooking stoves; ranges and ovens; food waste disposals; and welded wire rack will be taxed at 50%, starting on June 23, the Bureau of Industry and Security said in a notice that will be published in the Federal Register June 16.
Senators from both parties asked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to respond to a Wall Street Journal editorial headlined "Trump Has No China Trade Strategy." Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., when he had a chance to ask Bessent questions, quoted from it that Trump "has used tariffs as an economic scatter-gun against friends as well as foes."