The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on passenger vehicle and light truck tires from South Korea (A-580-908). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers for subject merchandise entered Jan. 6, 2021, through June 30, 2022.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on polyethylene terephthalate film from India (A-533-824). Commerce found that SRF Limited/SRF Limited of India/SRF Limited Packaging Films did not undersell subject merchandise during the period of review, assigning it a zero percent AD rate. It also assigned that zero percent rate to Jindal Poly Films and Polyplex Corporation Ltd. Subject merchandise from all three companies entered July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022, will be liquidated without any assessment of AD duties, and future entries of subject merchandise exported by SRF, Jindal and Polyplex will not be subject to AD duty cash deposit requirements until further notice. The new zero percent AD cash deposit rates take effect Feb. 5, the date the final results were published in the Federal Register.
On Feb. 2, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements is adding several types of nylon dobby weave fabric to the "short supply list" in Annex 3.25 of the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement for items not commercially available in a timely manner, it said in a notice. Powers Manufacturing Company, which does business as Powers Athletic, requested the additions in December. The fabrics, classifiable under Harmonized Tariff Schedule subheadings 5407.43.2030 and 5407.42.2060, are being added in unrestricted quantities. Under short supply provisions of CAFTA-DR, fibers, yarns and fabrics listed in Annex 3.25 are provided with tariff preferences under the trade agreement.
Former President Donald Trump, in a television appearance with Maria Bartiromo, bragged about the "big tariffs" he put in to stop the import of Chinese steel, and denied a Washington Post report that he is thinking about imposing a flat 60% tariff on Chinese imports if reelected.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Feb. 2, 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.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
Automakers and their suppliers are telling the Biden administration in comments submitted ahead of an upcoming report that not having a form for certificate of origin has paradoxically made compliance more difficult. They also said that companies are having a difficult time certifying how much workers in the supply chain earn, and that the absence of final USMCA regulations are all problems for trade compliance in the more than three years since USMCA took effect.
AIT Worldwide Logistics acquired the Netherlands-based Global Transport Solutions Group, a “prominent international freight forwarder specializing in time-critical marine spare parts logistics,” AIT said in a Feb. 1 news release. The terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.
Lori Wallach, a long-time free-trade skeptic, urged listeners to her Rethink Trade podcast to call their members of Congress and say: "I am scared silly about the abuse of this outrageous de minimis loophole. What is the congressman going to do to close this loophole?"