The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Aug. 5 on AD/CV duty proceedings:

The growth in the number of antidumping and countervailing duty orders enforced by CBP in recent years appears to be continuing, said Elizabeth Teague, an analyst at CBP, who spoke during a CBP Detroit Trade Week event on Aug. 3. "In Fiscal Year 2020, CBP began to enforce 45 new AD/CVD orders," she said. "So far in 2021, we are outpacing that number and have begun enforcing an additional 83 AD/CVD orders just this year." As of July, there were 625 active AD/CVD orders on 191 products from 59 countries, with China being the most frequently named country of origin, she said. Over half of all the AD/CVD orders involve steel or steel-related products, Teague said.

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Aug. 4 on AD/CV duty proceedings:

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Aug. 3 on AD/CV duty proceedings:

An Enforce and Protect Act investigation into alleged antidumping or countervailing duty evasion by a cabinet importer didn't produce evidence that the evasion was happening, CBP said in a July 21 notice of determination. The investigation involved BGI Group, which does business as U.S. Cabinet Depot and was alleged to have shipped wooden cabinet and vanities (WCV) "subject to the AD/CVD Orders to Cambodian company Cambodia Golden Coast Wood Products Co., Ltd." for "repackaging and exporting the Chinese-origin merchandise to BGI." Based on the information on the record of the investigation, "including the absence of sufficient additional evidence of evasion obtained subsequent to the [notice of investigation], CBP finds that substantial evidence does not exist that BGI entered into the customs territory of the United States WCV manufactured in China that had been transshipped through Cambodia during the period of this EAPA investigation."

The following new requests for antidumping and countervailing duty scope rulings were recently filed with the Commerce Department:

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Aug. 2 on AD/CV duty proceedings:

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices July 30 on AD/CV duty proceedings:

The Commerce Department seeks comments by Aug. 30 on whether Russia should be considered a non-market economy country for antidumping duty purposes, it said in a notice issued as part of the AD duty investigation on urea ammonium nitrate solutions from Russia (A-821-831). The domestic producer that requested the investigation “has provided sufficient evidence” of potential NME status for Russia for Commerce to consider the issue as part of the proceeding, the agency said. Commerce has treated Russia as a market economy since 2002. NME companies subject to AD duty proceedings must prove independence from government control, or else be assigned to the country-wide entity with AD rates that can reach into the hundreds percent. Comments can be submitted by the general public, and should address issues such as the extent to which wage rates are influenced by free bargaining, the extend of government ownership and control, and government control over price and output decisions.

Rolls of label tape imported by D&F Consolidated are subject to antidumping and countervailing duties on narrow woven ribbons with woven selvedge from China (A-570-952/C-570-953), said the Commerce Department in a July 27 scope ruling. D&F claimed that only decorative ribbon is subject to the orders, but Commerce found that ribbon with a utilitarian purpose can be subject to AD/CV duties.