The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 18 on AD/CV duty proceedings:

A flooring system for pig farrowing made of a galvanized steel tribar truss floor is subject to antidumping and countervailing duties on steel grating from China (A-570-947/C-570-948), even when the flooring is imported as part of a pig farrowing crate system, the Commerce Department said in a scope ruling issued May 14.

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 17 on AD/CV duty proceedings:

The Commerce Department should apply adverse facts available to an exporter that initially responded that certain sales data was unavailable, but when subsequently pressed provided the information to Commerce, an attorney said during a hearing before Commerce related to an antidumping duty investigation on passenger vehicle and light truck tires from South Korea.

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 14 on AD/CV duty proceedings:

A New York lumber distributor sent a letter May 11 to the Commerce Department urging negotiations to begin on a new softwood lumber agreement, citing rising prices and market instability since the previous antidumping and countervailing duty suspension agreements expired in October 2015. “While this agreement is not the ultimate solution to price volatility, reenactment of the agreement will contribute to needed stability in the marketplace,” Belknap Lumber said in the letter, which was added by Commerce to the record of ongoing AD/CVD administrative reviews on softwood lumber from Canada on May 12.

The following new requests for antidumping and countervailing duty scope rulings were filed with the Commerce Department during the week of May 3-7:​

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 12 on AD/CV duty proceedings:

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 11 on AD/CV duty proceedings:

The Commerce Department decided against excluding water-soluble thermal paper and phenol-free jumbo roll thermal paper from an antidumping duty investigation into thermal paper imports from German, Japan, South Korea and Spain, in a May 5 preliminary scope memorandum. In deciding not to exclude both product types from the antidumping duty order, Commerce cited deference given to the petitioners of the AD case when defining the scope of the order. Petitioners in this investigation, Appvion Operations, Inc. and Domtar Corporation, opposed the proposed scope exclusions.