The Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America publicized a letter they sent to the administration, pointing out that children's shoes already face high most favored nation duties, and asked officials not to stack a planned 20% tariff on those rates.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the July 10 Federal Register on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (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 July 10 on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CVD rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on acetone from South Korea (A-580-899). The agency preliminarily calculated a 0.69% AD rate for the one company remaining under review, Kumho P&B Chemicals Inc. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from KPB entered March 1, 2023, through Feb. 29, 2024, will be assessed AD at that rate and be subject to an AD cash deposit requirement. Any changes to the cash deposit rate would take effect on the date of publication in the Federal Register of the final results of this review, which are due in November.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on uncoated paper from Portugal (A-471-807). The agency preliminarily calculated an AD rate of 10.92% for the only company under review, The Navigator Company, S.A. Any changes to Navigator's cash deposit rate would take effect on the date of Federal Register publication of the final results of this review, currently due in November. Once Commerce issues its final results, the agency will assess duties at importer-specific rates for entries of subject merchandise from Navigator entered March 1, 2023, through Feb. 29, 2024.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on organic soybean meal from India (A-533-901). The agency preliminarily found the only company remaining under review -- Tejawat Organic Foods -- had an AD rate of 18.8%. If Commerce's finding for Tejawat Organic Foods is continued in the final results, its AD cash deposit rate will be 18.8%, effective on the date Commerce's final results are published in the Federal Register. The agency would assess AD at importer-specific rates for entries of subject merchandise from Tejawat Organic Foods entered May 1, 2023, through April 30, 2024, it said.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on granular polytetrafluoroethylene resin (granular PTFE) from India (A-533-899). Rates calculated in this review will be used to set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise from one producer and exporter that was entered during the period March 1, 2023, through Feb. 29, 2024.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on uncoated paper from Brazil (A-351-842). The agency calculated an AD rate of 14.42% for Suzano S.A., the one company under review. Any changes to the cash deposit rates for Suzano would take effect on the publication date of the final results of this review. Once Commerce issues its final results, if there are no changes, the agency would assess AD at importer-specific rates for entries of subject merchandise from Suzano entered between March 1, 2023, through Feb. 29, 2024, it said.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on oil country tubular goods from Turkey (C-489-817). The agency assigned a 1.55% CVD rate to the affiliated companies Borusan Mannesmann Boru Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S., Borusan Mannesmann Boru Yatirim Holding and Borusan Holding A.S.; and a 1.01% CVD rate to Cayirova Boru Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. and its affiliate Yucelboru Ihracat Ithalat ve Pazarlama A.S. Importers of subject merchandise from Borusan and Cayirova entered Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022, will be assessed CVD at importer-specific rates. The CVD cash deposit rates for the two companies and their affiliates take effect July 11, the date these final results are set to be published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on steel racks from China (A-570-088). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD for subject merchandise for the companies under review entered Sept. 1, 2022, through Aug. 31, 2023.