The Commerce Department last week issued new antidumping and countervailing duty regulations, which, most notably, lifted the prohibition on the consideration of transnational subsidies in CVD cases (see 2403210070).
PHILADELPHIA -- Getting the funding for ACE 2.0 is the biggest challenge, the executive director of CBP's trade transformation office said. He said the agency was unsuccessful in the budgetary process, and asked industry to lobby their representatives for funding.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the March 27 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 International Trade Commission is proposing to permanently adopt its COVID-19 era regulation that waived the need for paper filings of confidential and public documents in safeguard, antidumping and countervailing duty, and Section 337 proceedings. In a proposed rule released March 28, the ITC, at the request of the ITC Trial Lawyers Association and the Customs and International Trade Bar Association, proposed eliminating the requirement for paper copy submissions, except for complaints and complaint supplements and amendments in Section 337 cases. The regulation also removes "gender-specific language" found in the ITC's rules.
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: