Vietnam-based Southern International Co. (SIC) has accused Daynamez Group of Companies of Fairfax, Virginia, of failing to reserve cargo space with carriers despite receiving full payment of more than $2.4 million to do so for 558 containers, according to a complaint filed Aug. 26 with the Federal Maritime Commission.
Australian small businesses were given too little time to comply with the U.S. decision to end the de minimis exemption for low-value imports (see 2508280062), said Don Farrell, Australia’s trade minister. Farrell said he raised Australia’s "disappointment" earlier in the week with U.S. Trade Representative General Counsel Jennifer Thornton, adding that the move is mostly hurting “mum and dad operations that have had a successful product going into” the U.S.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Aug. 29 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 published notices in the Federal Register Aug. 29 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 has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on large diameter welded pipe (welded pipe) from South Korea (A-580-897). Rates calculated in this review will be used to set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise from three producers and exporters, SeAH Steel Corporation and Hyundai Steel Company/Hyundai Steel Pipe Co., Ltd. (HSP is the successor-in-interest to Hyundai Steel), and 21 non-individually examined companies that was entered May 1, 2023, through April 30, 2024.
The Commerce Department is correcting a company listed in the recent final results of the countervailing duty administrative review on forged steel fluid end blocks from Italy (C-475-841) for setting final assessments of CVD on importers for subject merchandise entered in calendar year 2023.
The Commerce Department issued its final determinations in its countervailing duty investigations on corrosion-resistant steel products from Brazil (C-351-863), Canada (C-122-872), Mexico (C-201-864) and Vietnam (C-552-844), after finding countervailable subsidization of producers and exporters in the four countries in the preliminary determinations of its CVD investigations.
The Commerce Department issued its final affirmative determinations in the antidumping duty investigations on certain corrosion-resistant steel products from Australia (A-602-812), Brazil (A-351-862), Canada (A-122-871), Mexico (A-201-863), the Netherlands (A-421-818), South Africa (A-791-829), Taiwan (A-583-878), Turkey (A-489-855), the United Arab Emirates (A-520-811) and Vietnam (A-552-843). Changes to cash deposit requirements set in these final determinations take effect Aug. 29, the date they were published in the Federal Register.
The U.S. invoked the rapid response labor mechanism under USMCA to investigate a Mexican meat processing facility. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said that it had received a petition alleging that workers at the Alimentos Grole facility in Mexico are being denied the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining. The U.S. has therefore suspended liquidation of unliquidated entries of goods from the facility.
Rep. Hillary Scholten, D-Mich., is asking the House Ways and Means chairman to direct the International Trade Commission to conduct a fact-finding investigation on the economic impacts of Peruvian blueberry exports on American blueberry growers.