The International Trade Commission published notices in the March 29 Federal Register on the following AD/CVD injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register March 29 on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department is republishing the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on utility scale wind towers from South Korea (A-580-902), after omitting several companies' rates from a final results notice it published March 7.
The Commerce Department released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on carbon and certain alloy steel wire rod from Mexico (A-201-830). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise from companies under review entered October 2021 through September 2022.
Suspension of liquidation and countervailing duty cash deposit requirements take effect April 1 for imports of frozen warmwater shrimp from Ecuador (C-331-806), India (C-533-921) and Vietnam (C-552-838), after the Commerce Department found countervailable subsidization in preliminary determinations in its ongoing CV duty investigations.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the following voluntary recalls March 28:
On March 28, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation announced March 28 that Special Import Quota #24 for upland cotton will be established April 4, allowing importation of 6,526,283 kilograms (29,975 bales) of upland cotton, unchanged from the previous quota period. The quota will apply to upland cotton purchased not later than July 2, 2024, and entered into the U.S. by Sept. 30, 2024. The quota is equivalent to one week's consumption of cotton by domestic mills at the seasonally adjusted average rate for the November 2023 through January 2024 period, the most recent three months for which data is available.
Paulo Perez-Mendoza of Stockton, California, was charged March 28 with conspiracy to "receive and sell smuggled pesticides" into the U.S., the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California announced.
A consumer filed suit in New York on March 27 alleging that the aluminum foil brand Reynolds, which her complaint called “a staple of Americana,” harmed consumers by falsely advertising that its foil was made in the U.S. (Anaya Washington v. Reynolds Consumer Products LLC, S.D.N.Y. # 24-02327).