The Commerce Department issued its final affirmative determinations in the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on imports of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, it said in a fact sheet issued April 21. Commerce set an AD rate of 125.37% for Cambodian exporters, and set rates ranging from zero percent to 81.24% for Malaysian exporters; from 111.45% to 202.9% for Thai exporters; and from 58.07% to 271.28% for Vietnamese exporters, the agency said. It set CVD rates ranging from 534.67% to 3,403.96% for Cambodian exporters; from 14.64% to 168.8% for Malaysian exporters; from 263.74% to 799.55% for Thai exporters; and from 68.15% to 542.64% for Vietnamese exporters. These rates will take effect upon publication in the Federal Register of these final determinations, which should occur in the coming days.
The Commerce Department issued its final affirmative determinations in the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on imports of alkyl phosphate esters from China, it said in a fact sheet issued April 21. Commerce set AD rates ranging from 152.38% to 269.02% for Chinese exporters, and set CVD rates ranging from 81.82 % to 491.21% for Chinese exporters, the agency said. These rates will take effect upon publication in the Federal Register of these final determinations, which should occur in the coming days.
On April 21, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
Starting April 23, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will allow the importation of fresh rhizomes of wasabi (Eutrema japonicum) from Indonesia, it said in a notice.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website April 21, 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 U.S. joined a case against importer Barco Uniforms, companies that supply Barco and the two individuals that control the suppliers for allegedly violating the False Claims Act by knowingly underpaying customs duties on apparel imports, DOJ announced. The suit was originally filed in 2016 under the FCA's whistleblower provision by Toni Lee, the former director of product commercialization at Barco. The U.S. intervened in the case, filing a complaint on April 11.
Hoshine Silicon (Jia Xiang) Industry Co. has constitutional and statutory standing to challenge a withhold release order on silica-based products made by its parent company, Hoshine Silicon, or its subsidiaries, the Court of International Trade held in a decision made public April 22. However, Judge Claire Kelly dismissed Jiaxing Hoshine's claim against CBP's issuance of the WRO for being untimely, finding that it was brought after the statute of limitations had run out.
CBP is accepting comments through June 23 on a request by a domestic party to reclassify certain cane sugar molasses and liquid sugar from Harmonized Tariff Schedule subheading 1703.10.30 to subheading 1702.90.10 or subheading 1702.90.20.
Although the number of entry summaries processed by CBP in March slightly rose compared with amounts in January and February this year and March 2024, the amount of identified estimated duties nearly doubled, according to releases from the agency.
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