International Trade Administration February 6, 2024 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily finds that countervailable subsidies were provided to producers and exporters of forged steel fluid end blocks (fluid end blocks) from Italy, during the period of review (POR) January 1, 2022 through, December 31, 2022. In addition, Commerce is rescinding this review, in part, with respect to 19 companies. Interested parties are invited to comment on these preliminary results.

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is conducting an administrative review of the antidumping duty (AD) order on certain softwood lumber products (softwood lumber) from Canada. The period of review (POR) is January 1, 2022, through December 31, 2022. Commerce preliminarily determines that the producers/exporters subject to this review made sales of subject merchandise at less than normal value. In addition, with respect to Smartlam LLC (Smartlam), we are preliminarily rescinding this administrative review because Smartlam did not have any reviewable entries of subject merchandise during the POR. We invite interested parties to comment on these preliminary results.

As a result of the determinations by the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) that revocation of the antidumping duty (AD) orders on forged steel fittings (FSF) from the People's Republic of China (China), Italy, and Taiwan and the countervailing duty (CVD) order on FSF from China would likely lead to the continuation or recurrence of dumping and countervailable subsidies, and material injury to an industry in the United States, Commerce is publishing a notice of continuation of these AD and CVD orders.

A Request for Panel Review was filed in the matter of Softwood Lumber from Canada: Final Determinations of the Five-Year Reviews of the Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Orders with the U.S. Section of the USMCA Secretariat on January 29, 2024. The final results were determined by the United States International Trade Commission and were published in the Federal Register on December 28, 2023. The USMCA Secretariat has assigned case number USA-CDA-2024-10.12-01 to this request.

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that Fufeng Biotechnologies Co., Ltd. (aka Inner Mongolia Fufeng Biotechnologies Co., Ltd.), Shandong Fufeng Fermentation Co., Ltd., and Xinjiang Fufeng Biotechnologies Co., Ltd. (collectively, Fufeng) and Meihua Group International Trading (Hong Kong) Limited, Langfang Meihua Biotechnology Co., Ltd., and Xinjiang Meihua Amino Acid Co., Ltd. (collectively, Meihua) sold xanthan gum from the People's Republic of China (China) at less than normal value during the period of review (POR), July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022. Additionally, we find that Jianlong Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (formerly, Inner Mongolia Jianlong Biochemical Co., Ltd) (Jianlong), Deosen Biochemical (Ordos) Ltd./ Deosen Biochemical Ltd. (collectively, Deosen), and CP Kelco (Shandong) Biological Company Limited (CP Kelco (Shandong)) have each demonstrated that they are eligible for a separate rate. Further, Commerce is rescinding this review with respect to Deosen USA, Inc. Commerce also determines that three companies for which we initiated reviews had no shipments during the POR.

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that certain steel nails (nails) from Malaysia were sold at less than normal value during the period of review (POR), July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022.

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that sales of strontium chromate from France by Soci[eacute]t[eacute] Nouvelle des Couleurs Zinciques (SNCZ) were not made at less than normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR) November 1, 2021, through October 31, 2022.