The Commerce Department has published the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on finished carbon steel flanges from India (C-533-872). It said it made certain changes to its preliminary results, resulting in slightly lower assessment rates, and set new CVD cash deposit rates for 12 exporters. These final results will be used to set final assessments of CVD on importers for subject merchandise entered Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on certain metal lockers and parts thereof from China (C-570-134). The agency calculated new CVD cash deposit rates for the Chinese producers and exporters listed below -- and in the case of Hangzhou Evernew Machinery & Equipment Company, at a rate significantly higher than that calculated in the preliminary results of this review, i.e., 15.35%. That new rate affected the rate for the non-individually examined companies, as well, because the Evernew rate was based on adverse facts available. These final results will be used to set final assessments of CVD on importers for entries during the period of calendar year 2022.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the following voluntary recalls June 12:
On June 12, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is updating regulations on the movement of certain genetically modified organisms issued under the authority of the Plant Protection Act, according to a Federal Register notice. The update will amend the regulations to account for a federal court's December vacatur of a May 2020 rule revising APHIS' regulations on moving genetically modified organisms. The rule is effective June 16.
The Commerce Department is accepting applications from automakers with U.S. assembly operations, it announced in a June 13 Federal Register notice.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is seeking comments on whether member countries of the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI) are meeting the criteria for their inclusion, as well as comments on CBI's operations itself, it said in a Federal Register notice.
Senators and witnesses called for legislative action to combat imports of seafood caught with forced labor during a June 12 hearing.
Importer Monarch Metals told the Court of International Trade that its stainless steel wire imports are products of Japan and not China, meaning its goods were improperly subjected to Section 301 and Section 232 tariffs. In a complaint filed June 13, Monarch Metals said that under CBP's prior application of the substantial transformation test to steel wire, no substantial transformation occurs by drawing steel rod into steel wire (Monarch Metals v. United States, CIT # 24-00266).
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters: