The Commerce Department’s recent change in the scope of its antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on pentafluoroethane (R-125) from China to address administrability concerns was unnecessary, and the original scope was no different than the scopes of other orders that rely on the word of importers to determine whether merchandise is subject to AD/CV duties, said Honeywell International, petitioner in the investigation, in a brief filed Sept. 14.

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Sept. 20 on AD/CV duty proceedings:

An anti-circumvention inquiry requested by a U.S. industry coalition amounts to an attempt to impose new antidumping and countervailing duties on solar cells from Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam without the strictures of real AD/CVD investigations, rather than serving as valid allegations of circumvention of Chinese solar cells duties, two U.S. importers said in a brief filed Sept. 15 asking the Commerce Department not to initiate the inquiries.

The American Honey Producers Association filed a brief Sept. 14 with the Commerce Department alleging a particular market situation exists for the agency’s antidumping duty investigation on raw honey from India (A-533-903). The association, petitioner in the case, said the prevalence of cheap adulterated honey made with significant amounts of sugar syrup on the Indian market have depressed prices for Indian raw honey.

Flat bulk continuous filament (BCF) yarn made from polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) is not subject to antidumping and countervailing duties on polyester textured yarn from India (A-533-885/C-553-886), the Commerce Department said in a Sept. 15 scope ruling. The scope of the AD/CVD orders covers “multifilament yarn that is manufactured from polyester (polyethylene terephthalate),” and excludes bulk continuous filament yarn made from PET that meets certain physical requirements. The yarn at issue in the scope request, submitted by AYM Syntex Ltd., is a single-strand yarn, and is made from PBT, not PET, Commerce said. “We determine that BCF yarn produced from PBT is outside the scope of the Orders based on the plain language of the scope …,” Commerce said. “BCF yarn, the product at issue in AYM’s request, is produced from PBT -- not PET, as expressly identified in the plain scope language.”

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

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Sept. 16 on AD/CV duty proceedings:

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Sept. 15 on AD/CV duty proceedings:

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 Sept. 14 on AD/CV duty proceedings: