The Commerce Department has issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate from Germany (A-428-844). The agency calculated a zero percent AD duty rate for AG der Dillinger Huttenwerke. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from Dillinger entered May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2023, will not be assessed AD duties, and future entries from Dillinger would not be subject to an AD cash deposit requirement until further notice. Any changes to rates for Dillinger would take effect on the date of publication in the Federal Register of the final results of this review.
The Commerce Department has issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on welded carbon steel standard pipes and tubes from India (A-533-502). Commerce continued its preliminary finding of no subject shipments from the one company remaining under review, Surya Roshni Limited, during the period of review, May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2023.
Heat-treatable clad aluminum aircraft sheet imported by Capps Manufacturing isn't subject to antidumping duties on common alloy aluminum sheet from Germany, the Commerce Department in a May 22 scope ruling requested by Capps Manufacturing. Commerce said the aircraft sheet is made of a different type of aluminum alloy.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on thermal paper from Germany (A-428-850). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers of subject merchandise entered between May 12, 2021, and Oct. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department is amending its preliminary antidumping duty determination on aluminum lithographic printing plates from China (A-570-156) to correct a calculation error in the AD rate for Fujifilm China. As a result of the correction, the cash deposit rate in effect for Fujifilm China will increase substantially, from 38.57% to 164.3%. As a result of the increase, in order to keep the China-wide rate above Fujifilm's new rate, Commerce is also increasing the China-wide rate from 107.61% to 477.59%
The Commerce Department is setting new countervailing duty cash deposit requirements for imports of glass wine bottles from China (C-570-163), after finding illegal subsidization of Chinese producers in the preliminary determination of its CVD investigation. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements take retroactive effect for entries on or after March 5, 2024, as a result of Commerce's finding of critical circumstances for all Chinese exporters.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the following voluntary recalls May 30:
On May 30, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The FDA announced May 31 that it will in about six months begin requiring accreditation under its Laboratory Accreditation for Analyses of Foods (LAAF) regulation for laboratories testing for mycotoxins to support admissibility or removal from an import alert (see 2112020017).
USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation announced May 30 that Special Import Quota #7 for upland cotton will be established June 6, allowing importation of 7,680,747 kilograms (35,277 bales) of upland cotton, the same as the previous quota period. The quota will apply to upland cotton purchased not later than Sept. 3, 2024, and entered into the U.S. by Dec. 2, 2024. The quota is equivalent to one week's consumption of cotton by domestic mills at the seasonally adjusted average rate for the January through March 2024 period, the most recent three months for which data is available.