The Commerce Department intends to create a new exemption from antidumping and countervailing duties on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into modules, from China (A-570-979/C-570-980) and crystalline silicon photovoltaic products from China (A-570-010/C-570-011) and Taiwan (A-583-853), it said in the preliminary results of three changed circumstances reviews released July 23.
The Commerce Department has set new antidumping duty cash deposit requirements for imports of active anode material from China (A-570-194), after finding sales at less than fair value by Chinese producers in the preliminary determination of its AD investigation. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements take effect for entries on or after July 22.
New antidumping and countervailing duties take effect, retroactive to Nov. 19, 2024, for importers of circular welded carbon quality steel pipe from Oman, the Commerce Department said in its preliminary determination in an anti-circumvention inquiry.
The Commerce Department issued its final determination in its countervailing duty investigation on hexamethylenetetramine (hexamine) from China (C-570-181), finding countervailable subsidization of producers and exporters. Suspension of liquidation currently isn't in effect for entries on or after July 5, 2025, and Commerce will require cash deposits of estimated CVD on future entries only if it issues a CVD order.
The Commerce Department issued its final determination in its antidumping duty investigation on hexamethylenetetramine (hexamine) from China (A-570-180). Changes to cash deposit requirements set in this final determination took effect July 18, the date they were published in the Federal Register.
On July 22, 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:
At a reception for lawmakers, President Donald Trump complained that Ozempic costs almost $1,300 in the U.S., and only $88 in England, and that countries with price controls on prescription drugs must change their policies.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on July 22 dismissed a lawsuit from eight Malian citizens against seven U.S. cocoa importers, which was filed under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA), for lack of standing. Judges Sri Srinivasan, Patricia Millett and Justin Walker held that the Malian citizens, who attempted to certify a class, failed to clearly allege facts showing the "causal connection between" the importers' "alleged supply chain venture" and the laborers' forced child labor (Issouf Coubaly v. Cargill, D.C. Cir. # 22-7104).
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website July 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.