A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Jan. 4, 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.
The National Association of Foreign-Trade Zones did a round of lobbying calls last month to tell appropriators that in some ports, CBP isn't accepting applications for new FTZs because they don't have the resources to manage them. That, in turn, delays economic development, they argued. In a news release published Jan. 5, NAFTZ said that during the 14 meetings, they also argued that lack of money is the reason CBP backtracked on allowing goods detained under suspicion of forced labor to be housed in FTZs.
CBP found no substantial evidence that Muller Import Inc. and U.S. Castings Inc. evaded the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on cast iron soil pipe and cast iron soil pipe fittings from China via transshipment through India, the agency announced Dec. 22.
CBP posted to its website an attachment it has been sending along with notices of detention under the Uyghur Forced Labor Detention Act that includes examples of documentation importers may submit to obtain a release, including for several products that only recently have come under CBP scrutiny.
The Federal Maritime Commission is granting ocean carriers special permission to immediately hike rates on containers that are being rerouted around the southern cape of Africa, in response to concerns over possible Houthi rebel attacks on usual routes through the Red Sea.
CBP will on Feb. 15 begin deactivating some Section 232 exclusions when they reach 95% of capacity, addressing concerns in a recent Government Accountability Office report that duties were going unpaid because the agency was letting importers exceed their exclusion limits (see 2307210064).
Ian Saunders began his job as the new secretary general of the World Customs Organization, the organization said Jan. 3. Nominated by CBP, Saunders was elected to the position in June (see 2306260031). He was previously a deputy assistant secretary at the Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Jan. 4 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 Jan. 4 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 published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into modules, from China (A-570-979). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise from the 33 companies under review entered December 2021 through November 2022.