International Trade Administration November 19, 2024 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

In response to requests from Bull Moose Tube Company, Maruichi American Corporation, Wheatland Tube Company, and the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC (collectively, the domestic interested parties), the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) is initiating a country-wide circumvention inquiry to determine whether circular welded carbon quality steel pipe (CWP) from the People's Republic of China (China), which is completed in the Sultanate of Oman (Oman) from hot-rolled steel (HRS) produced in China, is circumventing the antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders on CWP from China.

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that PT Ecos Jaya Indonesia and PT Grantec Jaya Indonesia (collectively, Ecos/ Grantec) and one non-individually examined company made sales of subject merchandise in the United States at prices below normal value (NV) during the period of review (POR), May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2023. Additionally, Commerce determines that PT. Zinus Global Indonesia (Zinus Indonesia) did not make sales of mattresses from Indonesia at prices below NV during the POR. Moreover, we are rescinding this review with respect to one company that withdrew its request for review and 29 companies that had no reviewable entries during the POR.

The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) published notice in the Federal Register of November 4, 2024, in which Commerce initiated the less-than-fair-value (LTFV) investigations on thermoformed molded fiber products (molded fiber products) from the People's Republic of China (China) and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnam). There was a typographical error in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) subheadings included in the scope of the investigations.