The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Aug. 19 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 citric acid from Thailand (A-549-833). In the final results of this review, Commerce may set assessment rates for subject merchandise from three companies entered July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024.
The Commerce Department preliminarily determines that a South Korean company is not the successor-in-interest to a similarly named company for the purposes of countervailing duties on certain corrosion-resistant steel (CORE) products (C-580-879) from South Korea. The agency preliminarily found that Dongkuk Coated Metal Co., Ltd. (Dongkuk CM) isn't the successor-in-interest to Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., Ltd. (Old Dongkuk Steel), in the preliminary results of a changed circumstances review. As such, the agency also preliminarily found that Old Dongkuk Steel’s exclusion from the CVD order on South Korean CORE products doesn't apply to Dongkuk CM. Commerce will be accepting comments on this result through Sept. 10. Commerce expects to make a final determination public on or about Nov. 17.
The Commerce Department soon will suspend liquidation and impose countervailing duty cash deposit requirements on imports of polypropylene corrugated boxes from China, it said in an Aug. 18 fact sheet. Commerce will set the CVD rate at 199.6% for all Chinese exporters, the agency said as it announced its preliminary determinations in its ongoing CVD investigation. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after the date of publication of the preliminary determinations in the Federal Register, which should occur in the coming days. Commerce is conducting concurrent antidumping duty investigations on the same product from China and Vietnam, with a preliminary determination expected by Oct. 14.
On Aug. 18, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Southern Shrimp Alliance, a trade group representing shrimp harvesters and shrimp processors in eight Southern states, observed that the FDA has notably increased entry-line refusals of imported Indonesian shrimp in 2025, according to an Aug. 18 post on its website.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that details in writing on the South Korean and Japanese trade deals will come in "kind of weeks."
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended the plan to impose higher tariffs on India over its Russian oil purchases, but not on China, arguing that India's purchase patterns shifted sharply after the invasion of Ukraine.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Aug. 18, 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 issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters: