The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register March 27 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 has released amended final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on cold-rolled steel flat products from South Korea (A-580-881) that were used to set final assessments of AD on importers for subject merchandise entered Sept. 1, 2021, through Aug. 31, 2022 (see 2402220060). The amendment came as the result of a ministerial error allegation from Steel Dynamics, Inc. Commerce said it agreed with the allegation, which pointed out that in calculating a countervailing duty export subsidy offset for Hyundai Steel Company, Commerce adjusted Hyundai's U.S. price by 4% instead of by the intended 0.04%. The correction results in a change to two AD rates published Feb. 23 in the original final results. The new rates are effective March 28.
The Commerce Department will soon suspend liquidation and impose countervailing duty cash deposit requirements on imports of frozen warmwater shrimp from Ecuador, India and Vietnam, but will not at this time suspend liquidation or set duties on frozen warmwater shrimp from Indonesia after finding no countervailable subsidization for that country, it said in a fact sheet March 26. The agency's preliminary determinations set CVD rates at 1.69% to 13.41% for Ecuadorian companies, 3.89% to 4.72% for Indian companies, and 2.84% to 196.41% for Vietnamese companies. If Commerce continues to find no countervailable subsidization for Indonesia in its final determination, the agency will not issue a CVD order on Indonesia. CVD suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements for Ecuador, India and Vietnam will take effect for entries on or after the date of publication of the preliminary determinations in the Federal Register, which should occur in the coming days.
On March 26, 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:
Reps. Garret Graves, R-La., and Mary Sattler Peltola, D-Alaska, asked the administration to halt the import of shrimp from India, following an exposé of labor violations in Indian shrimp processing facilities. The two said the report also showed "severe food and safety issues" with the shrimp. The report didn't at all focus on food safety, only glancingly mentioning that shrimp can be overtreated with antibiotics in India.
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 March 26, 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 has released its March 27 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 12), which includes the following ruling actions:
The Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism e-commerce fulfillment center certification likely will be available in FY 2025, said Bryant Van Buskirk, director of the Los Angeles CTPAT office, during a CBP Trade Facilitation and Cargo Security Summit on March 27. Van Buskirk said that CBP had hoped to be open to having e-commerce businesses participating at the end of FY 2024 (see 2304190029), but because of challenges in the "automation component," the release is likely to be pushed until the following fiscal year.
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