On March 31, 2020, Petitioners Brooklyn Bedding, Corsicana Mattress Company, Elite Comfort Solutions, FXI, Inc., Innocor, Inc., Kolcraft Enterprises, Inc., Leggett & Platt, Incorporated, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, AFL-CIO (“USW”) (collectively, the “Mattress Petitioners”) filed a petition for
Opportunity to Request Administrative Review
On April 1, 2020, 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. As part of this annual review process, Commerce intends to select respondents based on U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) data for U.S. imports during the
Petition Summary: Certain Non-Refillable Steel Cylinders from the People’s Republic of China
On March 27, 2020, Petitioner Worthington Industries filed a petition for the imposition of antidumping and countervailing duties on imports of Certain Non-Refillable Steel Cylinders from the People’s Republic of China.
SCOPE OF THE INVESTIGATION
The scope of the imported merchandise that the Petitioner intends to cover in this investigation is as follows:
The
The Potential Impacts of COVID-19 on Commerce
On March 23, 2020, Husch Blackwell LLP’s very own Nithya Nagarajan was quoted in Bloomberg Law’s article discussing the impacts of the COVID-19 virus on the Department of Commerce’s accuracy concerning antidumping and countervailing duties. To see the full article, please click here. Due to the travel restrictions, attorneys fear that the Department of
CBP Announces that Garlic and Pipe Fittings Importers are Evading Antidumping and Countervailing Duties
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) recently announced two new final determinations that importers of garlic and pipe fittings were evading antidumping and countervailing duties, under the Enforce and Protect Act (“EAPA”).
Title IV, Section 421 of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 is commonly referred to as The Enforce and Protect
Petition Summary: Common Alloy Aluminum Sheet from Various Countries
On March 9, 2020, The Aluminum Association Common Alloy Aluminum Sheet Working Group and its Individual Members, Aleris Rolled Products, Inc., Arconic, Inc., Constellium Rolled Products Ravenswood, LLC, JW Aluminum Company, Novelis Corporation, and Texarkana Aluminum, Inc. (“Petitioners”), filed a petition for the imposition of antidumping duties on Common Alloy Aluminum Sheet (“CAAS”) from Bahrain,
February 2020 Trade Law Update
In Husch Blackwell’s February 2020 Trade Law Newsletter, you’ll learn about the following updates in international trade and supply chain law:
- USTR announces increase in Section 301 tariffs for aircraft
- Section 232 derivative product tariffs
- Commerce initiates an AD investigation on imports of difluoromethane (R-32) from China
- India removed from U.S. list of developing
Petition Summary: Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene from South Korea
On March 3, 2020, Petitioner Celanese Corporation filed a petition for the imposition of antidumping duties on imports of ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene from South Korea.
SCOPE OF THE INVESTIGATION
The following language describes the scope of the imported merchandise that Petitioner intends to cover by this Petition:
The merchandise covered by the proposed scope
Opportunity to Request Administrative Review
On March 2, 2020, 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. As part of this annual review process, Commerce intends to select respondents based on U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) data for U.S. imports during the
Commerce Initiates AD Investigation of Imports of Difluoromethane (R-32) from China
On February 13, 2020, the Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) announced the initiation of an antidumping duty (“AD”) investigation of imports of difluoromethane, a chemical compound known also as R-32, from the People’s Republic of China. The petitioner in this case is Arkema, Inc., which estimated that 2018 imports of R-32 from China were valued at