The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review and a concurrent new shipper review on frozen fish fillets from Vietnam (A-552-801). The agency lowered AD rates for most companies under review. These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for entries between Aug. 1, 2011 and July 31, 2012. New AD duty cash deposit rates set in this review will take effect April 7.
The Court of International Trade affirmed lower antidumping duty rates for three exporters of fresh garlic from China (A-570-831) from an administrative review covering entries from the period Nov. 1, 2003 to Oct. 31, 2004. In response to court remands over issues related to surrogate values, the Commerce Department lowered the AD rate for Jinan Yipin Co., Ltd. from 29.52% to zero; Linshu Dading Private Agricultural Products Co., Ltd. from 22.47% to zero; and Sunny Import & Export Limited from 10.52% to 0.04% (a de minimis rate). CIT sustained the new rates over the objections of domestic industry.
The Commerce Department will not suspend liquidation and impose a countervailing duty cash deposit requirement on imports of monosodium glutamate from Indonesia (C-560-827), after finding no countervailable subsidization in its preliminary CV duty determination. The agency calculated a de minimis CV duty rate for the sole respondent, Cheil Jedang Indonesia. Following Commerce's preliminary determiation, Ajinomoto North America (AJINA) withdrew its request for CV duty investigations on MSG from China and Indonesia (see 14031035). Commerce has to make the final decision on whether to end this investigation, and the process could take a couple of weeks, said lawyers associated with the proceeding. Regardless, Commerce may require antidumping duty cash deposits as a result of its concurrent AD duty investigation on MSG from Indonesia. Commerce is set to make its preliminary AD duty finding May 1 (see 14020415).
Canada took another step toward setting “eManifest” advance manifest transmission requirements for truck and rail cargo, issuing on Feb. 15 proposed regulations that would implement the long-delayed program. Canada Border Service Agency’s proposed rule would require truck carriers to submit cargo and conveyance information one hour before reaching the Canadian border. Rail carriers would have to submit data two hours before a train crosses the border. Freight forwarders would also be tasked with advance electronic submission of secondary information on a shipment, and would have to keep associated records as well.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on pasta from Italy (C-475-819). The agency made slight changes from its preliminary results, but continued to find de minimis CV rates for Delverde and Valdigrano. As a result, period of review entries exported by Delverde and Valdigrano will be liquidated without regard to CV duties, and no CV duty cash deposit will be required on future entries from these companies until further notice. These rates are effective March 4, and will be implemented by CBP soon.
Pending legislative amendments to the Lacey Act would hurt the U.S. domestic timber industry and increase the risk of ecological damage by hampering the interagency ability to regulate illicit trafficking of environmental products and species, said government and industry officials and conservation advocates at a Feb. 27 congressional hearing. The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs hearing examined the Aquaculture Risk Reduction Act, HR-3105 (here), Lacey Act Clarifying Amendments Act, HR-3280 (here), The Lacey Act Paperwork Reduction Act, HR-3324 (here), and North Texas Invasive Species Barrier Act, HR-4032 (here).
The Commerce Department will not suspend liquidation and impose a countervailing duty cash deposit requirement on imports of steel concrete reinforcing bar from Turkey (C-489-819), finding no countervailable subsidization in its preliminary CV duty determination. The agency calculated de minimis CV duty rates for all respondents. Commerce will revisit the issue when it issues its final determination, and may at that point suspend liquidation and impose CV duty cash deposit requirements if it finds subsidization. Commerce may also require antidumping duty cash deposits when it publishes its preliminary AD duty determination on rebar from Turkey, currently set for April 18.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products from South Korea (C-580-818). The agency continued to find de minimis subsidy rates for Dongbu, HYSCO, and POSCO, so period of review entries exported by these three companies will be liquidated without regard to CV duties. This CV duty order was revoked in March 2013 for all merchandise entered on or after Feb. 12, 2012 (see 13031815, so no CV duty cash deposit requirements are in effect.
The Commerce Department is amending the final results of the 2010-11 antidumping duty administrative review on frozen warmwater shrimp from Thailand (A-549-822) to set an individual AD duty rate for Marine Gold Products Limited. The move comes after Commerce and Marine Gold reached a settlement in a Court of International Trade case that challenged the agency’s original decision to assign it the average rate for non-individually investigated companies. The assessment rate on period of review entries from Marine Gold will now be de minimis. Commerce didn’t set a cash deposit rate for Marine Gold, because the order was revoked for the company in July 2013 (see 13071513).
CBP continues to fail to collect vast sums of potential revenue in import duties on certain Chinese agriculture and seafood products that entered the U.S. since 2002, along with associated bonds posted on the imports, said Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., at the Jan. 15 Finance Committee hearing on the nomination of Gil Kerlikowske for CBP Commissioner (see 14011521).