The International Trade Commission published notices in the Sept. 2 Federal Register on the following antidumping and countervailing duty 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 and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders on kitchen appliance shelving and racks from China (A-570-941/C-570-942), as well as the antidumping duty order on steel concrete reinforcing bar from Mexico (A-201-844) and the countervailing duty order on steel concrete reinforcing bar from Turkey (C-489-819), Commerce said in a notice Sept. 2.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Sept. 2 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 announced the opportunity to request administrative reviews by Sept. 30 for producers and exporters subject to 45 antidumping duty orders and 13 countervailing duty orders with September anniversary dates.
The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that in automatic five-year sunset reviews scheduled to begin in October it will consider revoking the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders on commodity matchbooks from India (A-533-848/C-533-849) and prestressed concrete steel wire strand (PC strand) from India (A-533-828/C-533-829), as well as the antidumping duty orders on monosodium glutamate (MSG) from China (A-570-992) and Indonesia (A-560-826), tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol from China (A-570-887) and PC strand from Brazil (A-351-837), Japan (A-588-068), Mexico (A-201-831), South Korea (A-580-852) and Thailand (A-549-820). 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 has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on hot-rolled steel flat products from the Netherlands (A-421-813). The agency preliminarily calculated a 5.67% AD rate for the only company under review, Tata Steel Ijmuiden BV. Any changes to cash deposit rates for Tata Steel would take effect on the publication date of the final results of this review, currently due in January. If this rate is confirmed in the final results, Commerce would assess AD at importer-specific rates for subject merchandise from Tata Steel entered Oct. 1, 2023, through Sept. 30, 2024.
On Aug. 29, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The FDA is allowing the safe use of hydrogen peroxide in food as an antimicrobial agent, oxidizing and reducing agent, and bleaching agent, according to a final rule to be published in the Federal Register Sept. 3, the date it also becomes effective. The agency also is allowing hydrogen peroxide to be used as a food additive that can remove sulfur dioxide.
Over one-third of retail-packaged frozen seafood products sampled by the FDA for short weighting failed to be compliant with net weight declaration on the product label, and those importers found violating compliance have been placed on an import alert, according to results from the agency released on Sept. 2.
The National Marine Fisheries Service, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has published its comparability finding determinations for all fisheries on the list of foreign fisheries, the agency said in a Federal Register notice.