Exporters are reporting container costs changing from week to week due to attacks by Houthi rebels on commercial cargo ships moving through the Red Sea, said Eric Bartsch, the secretary of the USA Dry Pea & Lentil Council and the American Pulse Association. Bartsch, speaking during a Feb. 7 Federal Maritime Commission hearing on Red Sea shipping disruptions (see 2402070078), said many of pea, lentil and pulse exporters are small businesses, and 65% of their crops are exported.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Feb. 9 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 Feb. 9 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 Commerce Department will soon impose antidumping duty cash deposit requirements on imports of pea protein from China, according to a fact sheet issued Feb. 8. The agency said it has made its preliminary determination in an ongoing AD duty investigation on Chinese pea protein, and will set AD duties ranging from 122.19% to 280.31% (111.65% to 269.77% as adjusted for cash deposit purposes) when it publishes that preliminary determination in the Federal Register. Pea protein from China already is subject to suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements for countervailing duty purposes (see 2312180049).
The Commerce Department is issuing antidumping and countervailing duty orders on gas-powered pressure washers from China (A-570-148/C-570-149). The orders, set for publication Feb. 12, set permanent antidumping and countervailing duties, which will remain in place unless revoked by Commerce in a sunset or changed circumstances review. Commerce will now begin conducting annual administrative reviews, if requested, to determine final assessments of AD/CVD on importers and make changes to cash deposit rates.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the following voluntary recalls Feb. 8:
On Feb. 8, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The FDA on Feb. 9 released a draft guidance document on the use of sampling of fish and fishery products by importers and foreign manufacturers and processors to demonstrate the admissibility of goods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 import alert, or to have the goods removed from an import alert.
USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation announced Feb. 8 that Special Import Quota #17 for upland cotton will be established Feb. 15, allowing importation of 6,540,756 kilograms (30,041 bales) of upland cotton, up from 6,199,761 kilograms (28,475 bales) in the previous quota period. The quota will apply to upland cotton purchased not later than May 14, 2024, and entered into the U.S. by Aug. 12, 2024. The quota is equivalent to one week's consumption of cotton by domestic mills at the seasonally adjusted average rate for the October through December 2023 period, the most recent three months for which data is available.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters: