The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on finished carbon steel flanges from Spain (A-469-815; CBP A-470-815). The agency preliminarily calculated a zero percent AD rate for the only company under review, ULMA Forja, S.Coop. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from ULMA entered June 1, 2023, through May 31, 2024, won't be assessed AD. Any changes to rates for ULMA would take effect on the date that the final results of this review, due in December, are published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on citric acid and certain citrate salts from Belgium (A-423-813). The agency preliminarily calculated a zero percent AD rate for the only company under review, Citribel nv. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from Citribel entered July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024, won't be assessed AD. Any changes to rates for Citribel would take effect on the date of publication in the Federal Register of the final results of this review, due in December.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the countervailing duty administrative review on forged steel fluid end blocks from Italy (C-475-841). Rates set in these final results will be used for final assessments of CVD on importers for subject merchandise entered in calendar year 2023.
On Aug. 20, 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:
The U.S. is using "magical thinking" as the basis for its defense in the case against the legality of tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, said Rick Woldenberg, CEO of Hand2Mind and Learning Resources, the plaintiffs in the suit currently at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP is starting to list on its website which qualified parties acting in lieu of a carrier have been qualified by CBP to collect and pay duty on international mail that previously would have been eligible for the de minimis exemption, according to an Aug. 21 cargo systems message. Additional parties seeking to be certified as a qualified party should follow the process outlined in the agency's Aug. 15 guidance, which includes submitting a CBP Form 5106, obtaining a bond and fulfilling other requirements, CBP said in the message. The list will be updated as new qualified parties are certified.
The Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security seeks public comments by Sept. 9 in connection with its recently launched Section 232 investigation on the national security effects of imports of wind turbines and their parts and components, it said in a Federal Register notice. BIS is interested in such effects as the concentration of U.S. imports of wind turbines and their parts and components from a small number of suppliers or foreign nations and the associated risks; the potential for foreign control or exploitation of the wind turbine supply chain; and the ability of foreign persons to weaponize the capabilities or attributes of foreign-built wind turbines and their parts or components.
Lawyers with extensive experience in Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act detentions said that CBP processes have been changing, and that companies should stress test how quickly they can get documents about materials from their suppliers and suppliers' suppliers, and how quickly they can understand all they've been given and send the right documents to CBP.
Crowell & Moring partner David Stepp, a trade expert in the Los Angeles office, said that he and other trade lawyers have been hearing rumors about how the Trump administration will define "transshipment" in its reciprocal trade agreements. He said the rumor is that details will be released "in coming days."