The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register May 29 on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CVD rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
A domestic producer recently filed a petition with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission requesting new antidumping duties and countervailing duties on L-lysine from China. Commerce now will decide whether to begin AD/CVD investigations, which could result in the imposition of permanent AD/CVD orders and the assessment of AD and CVD on importers. The Lysine Fair Trade Coalition requested the investigation.
The Commerce Department soon will suspend liquidation and impose antidumping duty cash deposit requirements on imports of overhead door counterbalance torsion springs from China and India, it said in a fact sheet issued May 28.
The Commerce Department soon will suspend liquidation and impose antidumping duty cash deposit requirements on imports of sol gel alumina-based ceramic abrasive grains from China, it said in a fact sheet issued May 28.
On May 28, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts (after not having posted new ones for a number of days) on the detention without physical examination of:
The FDA has named several individuals barred for importing drugs or certain controlled substances for five years because of convictions involving past imports, according to recent Federal Register notices.
The FDA has barred Quality Poultry and Seafood (QPS) from importing food for five years, starting May 29, according to a notice published May 29. The agency said the company was convicted of a felony count under federal law related to importing an article of food into the U.S. QPS had been given the opportunity to request a hearing within a certain time frame but didn't, thus waiving its right to a hearing, the FDA said. The FDA described QPS as a Mississippi corporation operating in Biloxi as a wholesale supplier of poultry and seafood to restaurants, casinos and retail markets. QPS, along with co-conspirators, allegedly plotted to mislabel foreign seafood and sell it as local varieties.
Rep. Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee and chairman of the Budget Committee, reintroduced a bill that would allow the administration to impose Section 301 tariffs on goods made outside of China if they are made by Chinese firms.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on May 29 issued an administrative stay of the Court of International Trade's decision to vacate all tariff executive orders issued by President Donald Trump under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act while the appellate court considers the government's emergency motion to stay the CIT decision (V.O.S. Selections v. Donald J. Trump, Fed. Cir. # 25-1812).
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters: