The International Trade Commission published notices in the April 25 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 April 25 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 International Trade Commission is beginning a Section 337 investigation on allegations from US Conec that Senko and its affiliates are importing fiber-optic connectors, adapters, jump cables, patch cords and related products that infringe on its patents, the ITC said in a notice released April 25. In the investigation, the ITC will consider whether to issue a general exclusion order banning imports of infringing merchandise from all sources, as well as cease and desist orders against the following companies:
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of an antidumping duty administrative review on common alloy aluminum sheet from Germany (A-428-849). The final results of this review will be used to set importer assessments for one German company for the period April 1, 2022, through March 31, 2023.
Correction: A group of U.S. solar module producers is seeking new antidumping and countervailing duty orders on solar cells and modules from the same four Southeast Asian countries that Commerce recently found were circumventing AD/CVD on solar cells from China (see 2404240071). The petitions said there is currently no active production in the U.S. of solar cells.
The Commerce Department is beginning new antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) from China and India, it said in a fact sheet April 24. The underlying petition was filed in March (see 2403190048). The International Trade Commission is scheduled to make its preliminary injury determinations by May 20. These AD/CVD investigations will continue only if the ITC finds injury. International Trade Today will provide more details upon publication of the initiation notices in the Federal Register.
On April 24, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The FDA will allow more time for comments on a draft guidance it issued in February on the use of sampling of fish and fishery products by importers and foreign manufacturers and processors to demonstrate the admissibility of goods subject to an import alert, or to have the goods removed from an import alert (see 2402090066). The agency said it will now allow comments by June 25, after receiving a request that it extend the deadline for comments, which was originally April 12.
In its annual report on how foreign countries honor intellectual property protections, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said Argentina, China, India, Indonesia, Chile, Russia and Venezuela still belong on the list of the worst offenders. Ukraine, which had once been in that group, is not being evaluated because of its invasion by Russia.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters: