The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register April 25 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 issued its final determination in its countervailing duty investigation of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into modules, from Cambodia (C-555-004), Malaysia (C-557-831), Thailand (C-549-852) and Vietnam (C-552-842), finding countervailable subsidization of producers and exporters in the four countries. Suspension of liquidation is currently not in effect for entries on or after Feb. 1, and Commerce will require cash deposits of estimated CVD on future entries only if it issues a CVD order.
The Commerce Department issued its final affirmative determinations in the antidumping duty investigations on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into modules, from Cambodia (A-555-003), Malaysia (A-557-830), Thailand (A-549-851) and Vietnam (A-552-841). Changes to cash deposit requirements set in these final determinations take effect April 25, the date they were published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping duty investigations on monomers and oligomers from Korea and Taiwan, as well as its countervailing duty investigation on monomers and oligomers from Taiwan. The AD/CVD investigations cover entries for calendar year 2024.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the following voluntary recalls April 24:
On April 24, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., asked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to answer questions about why he told Wall Street investors that the U.S. is looking to de-escalate the trade war with China, and asked him to confirm if other executives heard information about progress toward a trade deal with India.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., asked Apple CEO Tim Cook about his private lobbying on tariffs on Chinese imports, and the fact that the carveout for the tariffs for electronics affected phones, computers and smart watches, which Apple makes, but not video game consoles.
In an interview with Time magazine, President Donald Trump said he delayed the country-by-country reciprocal tariff rates in early April not because the bond market was panicking, but because he needed time to come up with rates that they deserve.
Labor advocacy group International Rights Advocates filed a lawsuit this week against Starbucks on behalf of eight individuals who were trafficked and forced to work on "Starbucks-controlled coffee plantations in Brazil." The complaint, brought in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, seeks class certification for all trafficked laborers in Brazil and alleges that Starbucks knowingly benefitted from this slave labor, which took place on thousands of supplier plantations (John Doe I v. Starbucks Corporation, D.D.C. # 25-01261).