The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on polyethylene terephthalate film from Taiwan (A-583-837). Commerce continued to find, as it did in the preliminary results of this review, that Nan Ya Plastics Corp. did not undersell subject merchandise during the period of review, assigning the company a zero percent AD rate. Subject merchandise from Nan Ya entered between July 1, 2022, and June 30, 2023, will be liquidated without any assessment of antidumping duties, and future entries of subject merchandise exported by Nan Ya won't be subject to AD cash deposit requirements until further notice. The new AD cash deposit rate takes effect May 14, the day the final results were published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department has issued the final results of its antidumping duty administrative review on methionine from Spain (A-469-822, CBP # A-470-822). For entries on or after May 14, the date these final results were published in the Federal Register, Commerce is setting a new 0.71% AD cash deposit rate for the only company under review, Adisseo España S.A., the same rate as in the preliminary results of the review. Commerce will liquidate entries at importer-specific rates for entries from Adisseo during the period Sept. 1, 2022, through Aug. 31, 2023.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on steel nails from South Korea (A-580-874). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers of subject merchandise entered July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of a countervailing duty administrative review of certain lined paper products from India (C-533-844). Rates set in this review will be used to set importer assessments for subject merchandise from Navneet Education Limited entered during the period Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022.
The EPA has issued an interim final rule amending the data submission period for the Toxic Substances Control Act's perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) reporting rule, claiming that it needs to have adequate software in place before it can start collecting data, it said in a Federal Register notice.
On May 13, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The House Ways and Means Committee, after an all-night session on what it calls One Big Beautiful Bill, passed the tax cut bill along party lines on May 14.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website May 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 added several new enhancements, detailed in its May ACE Development and Deployment Schedule, that seek to facilitate the input of tariff-related data into ACE.
Given the fast-evolving trade dynamics in the U.S., some suppliers from China have been advising importers to take advantage of delivered duty paid terms -- which is bad advice and can get companies in trouble with CBP, customs consultant Tom Gould said during a May 13 webinar hosted by Revenue Vessel.