A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website March 13, 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 deployed updates in the ACE Portal for foreign-trade zone searches for facility operator accounts, as well as enhancements for carrier and surety account search, filter and display, it said. An eCBP link is also now available in the references tab, the agency said in a CSMS message March 14.
CBP is asking solar companies about their corporate structure, overall supply chain, entries, accounting and financial practices, production, sales and sales and production reconciliations, law firm Morgan Lewis said in a March 13 blog post. The agency began sending the questionnaires in February to solar companies asking how they're guarding against the use of forced labor in their supply chains with the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act top of mind for the agency (see 2402270061).
CBP ruled that the fallback method was appropriate for appraising several pharmaceutical products being imported for use in clinical trials. The ruling, dated Feb. 28, looked at three different valuation scenarios, each for pharmaceutical products that were provided to the importer conducting the clinical trial by related companies but were not actually sold.
The U.S. ambassador to Canada and the Canadian ambassador to the U.S. said trade cooperation between the two countries -- each is the other's top trading partner -- is crucial, but their tone on the NAFTA replacement was slightly different.
The Department of Energy is setting new energy efficiency standards for consumer clothes dryers that will require compliance in 2028, it said in a direct final rule published March 12.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the March 13 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 13 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 the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on frozen fish fillets from Vietnam (A-552-801). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered August 2021 through July 2022.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission released a direct final rule March 13 amending its safety standard for automatic residential garage door openers to incorporate the latest revisions to the entrapment protection provisions in the UL voluntary industry standard UL 325, it said. The changes are effective May 13, unless CPSC receives a “significant adverse” comment by April 15.