The Commerce Department is leaving in place an agreement suspending countervailing duties on sugar from Mexico (C-201-846), it said last week in the final results of an administrative review. Mexican exporters remain in compliance with the suspension agreements, Commerce said. The final results of Commerce's concurrent review of the antidumping duty suspension agreement on sugar from Mexico are currently due April 25.
The Commerce Department is amending its preliminary antidumping duty determination on mattresses from Taiwan (A-583-873), ending retroactive duties on the “all others” companies after finding its critical circumstances finding for those companies was in error. Suspension of liquidation and AD cash deposit requirements will now be in effect for entries on or after March 1, 2024, for the “all others” companies. Commerce’s critical circumstances findings remain unchanged for the individually investigated companies from Thailand -- Fuyue Mattress Industry Co., Ltd.; Star Seeds Co., Ltd.; and Yong Yi Cheng Co., Ltd. – so entries from those companies will remain subject to suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements effective Dec. 2, 2023 (see 2403010055).
The Commerce Department is revoking the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on rubber bands from China (A-570-069/C-570-070), as well as the AD order on rubber bands from Thailand (A-549-835), after no domestic producers sought to participate in five-year sunset reviews conducted by the agency, it said in a notice. Effective for entries from China on or after Feb. 19, 2024, and for entries from Thailand on or after April 26, 2024, Commerce will direct CBP to end suspension of liquidation and collection of AD/CVD cash deposits in connection with the now defunct AD/CVD orders, which had been in place since 2019. Entries before those effective dates will remain subject to suspension of liquidation and AD/CVD cash deposit requirements and assessments, Commerce said.
On March 22, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on March 25:
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has appointed Rep. John Moolenaar, R-Mich., to chair the House Select Committee on China when its current chairman, Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., leaves Congress next month, Moolenaar and the speaker’s office announced March 25.
Five senators, from both parties, want to end the 15% tariff on titanium sponge for most favored nations, and introduced a bill to change the tariff line.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website March 22, 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:
House Ways and Means Committee members, in hallway interviews at the Capitol, said they're concerned that the Senate's unwillingness to take up a tax package that passed the House with more than 350 votes will delay movement on bringing back the Generalized System of Preferences trade benefits program.