The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register June 27 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):
The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that in automatic five-year sunset reviews scheduled to begin in August it will consider revoking the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film from India (A-533-824/C-533-825) and crystalline silicon photovoltaic products from China (A-570-010/C-570-011), as well as the antidumping duty orders on PET film from China (A-570-924), Taiwan (A-583-837) and the United Arab Emirates (A-520-803); PET sheet from South Korea (A-580-903); and crystalline silicon photovoltaic products from Taiwan (A-583-853). These orders will be revoked, or the investigation terminated, unless Commerce finds that revocation would lead to dumping and the International Trade Commission finds that revocation would result in injury to the U.S. industry, Commerce said.
The Commerce Department issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping duty investigations on steel concrete reinforcing bar (rebar) from Algeria (A-721-001), Bulgaria (A-487-002), Egypt (A-729-805) and Vietnam (A-552-853), as well as its countervailing duty investigations on rear from Algeria (C-721-002), Egypt (C-829-806) and Vietnam (C-552-854). The CVD investigations cover entries for calendar year 2024. The AD investigations on Algeria, Bulgaria and Egypt cover entries April 1, 2024, through March 31, 2025, and the AD investigation on Vietnam covers entries Oct. 1, 2024, through March 31, 2025.
The Commerce Department announced the opportunity to request administrative reviews by July 31 for producers and exporters subject to 65 antidumping duty orders and 22 countervailing duty orders with July anniversary dates.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the following voluntary recalls June 26:
On June 26, 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 Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices June 27:
Importer American Eel Depot filed a pair of complaints at the Court of International Trade on June 27 to contest CBP's classification of its frozen roasted eel under Harmonized Tariff Schedule subheading 1604.17.10 and secondary subheading 9903.88.03, subjecting the goods to Section 301 duties. The company argued that its goods aren't products of China but, in fact, have a country of origin of the U.S. (American Eel Depot v. United States, CIT # 21-00278, -00279).
The Supreme Court's recent decision to eliminate nationwide injunctions won't impact the Court of International Trade, attorneys told us. The trade court is a court of national jurisdiction and will keep the right to issue nationwide injunctions for issues within its jurisdiction, the attorneys said.
Georgetown Law School Professor Jennifer Hillman, a former International Trade Commissioner and member of the World Trade Organization's appellate body, said she thinks there are grounds for a challenge to 25% tariffs on autos and auto parts, imposed on national security grounds under Section 232.