On December 15, 2022, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) added 18 entities in Russia’s financial services sector to the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (“SDN List”). The US State Department concurrently designated Vladimir Potanin, one of the richest men in Russia.

OFAC designated Public Joint Stock Company Rosbank (“Rosbank”), a bank

BIS Adds 24 New Entities and Removes One from Entity List

On December 8, 2022, the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) issued a notice in the Federal Register adding 24 entities under 26 entries and removing one entity from the Entity List. The entities are from Latvia, Pakistan, Russia, Singapore, Switzerland

On December 8, 2022, the Department of Commerce published its anti-circumvention preliminary determination with respect to the four Southeast Asian countries named above.  The publication of the preliminary determination triggers the effective date of the certification process for importers to obtain exemptions from antidumping and/or countervailing duties for imports of solar panels.  Any entity which

On December 2, 2022, the Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) announced its preliminary circumvention determination with respect to certain solar cells and modules exported from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam.  Commerce found that imports of solar cells from all four countries circumvented the antidumping (“AD”) and countervailing (“CVD”) orders on solar cells and modules from the

The Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) published a notice seeking comments from interested parties on steps Commerce should take to modify its application of a “particular market situation” (“PMS”) analysis in antidumping duty cases after a series of decisions by both the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Court of International

On November 1, 2022, the U.S. Department of Commerce published a notice that it is automatically initiating five-year Sunset Reviews for antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders from:

  1. China
    1. High Pressure Steel Cylinders (2nd Review) A–570–977
  2. Italy
    1. Stainless Steel Butt-weld Pipe Fittings (4th Review) A–475–828
  3. Malaysia
    1. Stainless Steel Butt-weld Pipe Fittings (4th Review)

On November 1, 2022, the Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) announced in the Federal Register the opportunity to request an annual administrative review for products that are currently subject to antidumping and countervailing duties and suspension agreements. The products and countries that have been listed in the Federal Register notice are the following:

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  • Republic of

On November 1, 2022, the United States Trade Representative (“USTR”) released the questionnaire it is requesting interested parties to submit for its consideration related to the economic impact of the Section 301 tariffs.  The portal to submit responses to the questionnaire will open on November 15, 2022, and will remain open until January 17, 2023.