A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website May 31, 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 is renewing its electronic export manifest pilot for air cargo for two years from June 4, the agency said in a notice released June 3. The agency said it will use the renewal to “determine whether electronic submission of the manifest will allow for improvements in capabilities at the departure level” for air cargo. CBP last month renewed its EEM pilots for vessel (see 2405300010) and rail (see 2405100036).
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is expanding its “beta” pilot for its partner government agency (PGA) message set to 2,000 participants, and also extending the pilot for “up to three years,” or until a final rule implementing CPSC “eFiling” takes effect.
Seko Customs Brokerage, which had added staffing to handle Type 86 filings before it was suspended from the Type 86 program beginning May 27 (see 2405310031), filed a complaint on June 3 asking the Court of International Trade to force CBP to reinstate it through an injunction.
Seko, a customs brokerage based in Illinois that can no longer file Type 86 entries after CBP suspended it from the program last week, is asking the Court of International Trade to force CBP to reinstate it through an injunction.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the May 31 Federal Register on the following 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 May 31 on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department has issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on mattresses from Serbia (Commerce case number A-801-002; CBP case number A-480-002). The agency preliminarily said the only company under review, Healthcare Europe DOO Ruma, made sales of subject merchandise to the U.S. at less than fair value during the period under review, and assigned it an AD rate of 42.09%. If Commerce's finding for Healthcare Europe is continued in the final results, the agency will assign a 42.09% cash deposit rate to it. Subject merchandise from Healthcare Europe entered May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2023, would be liquidated at importer-specific rates. Commerce will make its final decision when it issues the final results of this review, currently due in September.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on large diameter welded pipe (welded pipe) from South Korea (A-580-897). Rates calculated in this review will be used to set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise from two producers and exporters, SeAH Steel Corporation and Hyundai Steel Company, and 21 non-individually examined companies that was entered May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2023.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its countervailing duty administrative review on certain carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate from South Korea (C-580-888). The agency preliminarily assigned a 1.47% CVD rate to POSCO and its affiliated companies, the sole mandatory respondent in the review. If the agency's findings are continued in the final results of these reviews, importers of subject merchandise from POSCO entered Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022, will be assessed CVD at that rate. Any changes to cash deposit rates for POSCO would take effect on the date of publication in the Federal Register of the final results of this review.