The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its countervailing duty administrative review on phosphate fertilizers from Morocco (C-714-001). The agency calculated a preliminary rate of 14.21% for OCP S.A., the only company under review. That 14.21% CVD rate would apply for cash deposit purposes, and for the purposes of assessments for entries from OCP for entries during calendar year 2022. Changes to OCP's cash deposit rate would take effect beginning on the date of publication of the final results in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its countervailing duty administrative review on common alloy aluminum sheet from India (C-533-896). The agency calculated a preliminary rate of 54.12% for Hindalco Industries Limited and its cross-owned affiliates Hindalco-Almex Aerospace Limited, Minerals & Minerals Limited, Utkal Alumina International Limited, Suvas Holding Limited and Birla Copper Asoj Private Limited. The other mandatory respondent, Manaksia Aluminum Company Limited, was assigned a preliminary rate of 2.9%. Virgo Aluminum Limited, which was not selected for individual review, was preliminarily assigned an average rate of the two mandatory respondents, 5.32%. The CVD rates would apply for cash deposit purposes, and for the purposes of assessments for entries from the three companies and any of their affiliates in calendar year 2022.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on certain mobile access equipment and subassemblies thereof from China (A-570-139). Commerce preliminarily assigned the only company remaining under review, Zhejiang Dingli Machinery Co., Ltd., an AD rate of 9.33%. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from Dingli entered April 13, 2022, through March 31, 2023, will be assessed AD at importer-specific rates. An AD cash deposit rate of 9.33% would take effect for Dingli upon publication of the final results of this review in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of a countervailing duty administrative review of aluminum foil from China (C-570-054). This review covers subject merchandise from the exporters under review entered during the period Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on aluminum foil from China (A-570-053). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise from the companies under review entered April 1, 2022, through March 31, 2023.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on activated carbon from China (A-570-904). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise from the companies under review entered April 2022 through March 2023.
On May 1, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
Amid a four-year review of Section 301 tariffs that the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative will end soon (see 2404170074), Democratic senators led by Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio called on President Joe Biden to maintain the tariffs on China. In a short May 2 letter, they said the country continues to disrupt global supply chains and distort markets across such sectors as steel, solar technology and electric vehicles.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
CBP will retire the tool that creates and maintains a list of corporate surety powers of attorney in the legacy ACE Portal on May 11, the agency said. CBP, in a CSMS message on May 2, said that after May 11 surety users will only be able to maintain corporate surety powers of attorney in the modernized ACE portal. No action is needed to transfer the existing information, CBP said.