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The Department of Commerce has approved the duty-free entry of specific scientific instruments for Rice University and the University of Chicago, as announced in the Federal Register. Rice University plans to use a Signal Acquisition ASCI from LiMicro, China, to research neural connections in animals, as there are no equivalent instruments manufactured in the U.S. The University of Chicago will utilize a White Dwarf Optimal Parametric Amplifier System from Class 5 Photonics, Germany, for various experiments involving nanostructured materials and electronic transitions. No public comments were received regarding these applications.

In accordance with the Tariff Act of 1930, the U.S. Department of Commerce is starting the five-year reviews, known as Sunset Reviews, of certain antidumping and countervailing duty orders and suspended investigations. At the same time, the U.S. International Trade Commission is publishing its corresponding notice. Parties interested in participating must submit required information by specified deadlines. The process involves filing letters of appearance and complying with rules regarding the submission of documents, including the need for precise certification of information provided.

The Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee (ETTAC) will have an in-person meeting at the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, January 28, 2025. The meeting aims to discuss topics for the 2024-2026 charter period and is open to the public, but requires registration by January 22, 2025. Participants can attend in-person on a first-come, first-served basis and special accommodations can be requested in advance. During the meeting, there will be opportunities for public comments, and the agenda will be available upon request a week before the event.

The U.S. Department of Commerce has made a preliminary decision that producers and exporters of certain tungsten shot from China are receiving countervailable subsidies. This investigation covers the calendar year of 2023. The department published this notice and invited the public to share their thoughts on it. They plan to align the final determination of these countervailable duties with an ongoing antidumping investigation, with a final decision expected by April 28, 2025. If the final determination confirms these findings, additional steps will be taken to assess and potentially mitigate the impact of these imports on U.S. industry.

The U.S. Department of Commerce has completed expedited reviews regarding antidumping duty orders on strontium chromate from Austria and France. These reviews found that removing the orders could lead to continued or renewed dumping, with dumping margins of up to 25.90% for Austria and 32.16% for France. The orders were originally published in the Federal Register on November 27, 2019, and the notice summarizes the involved processes and final decisions.

The Department of Commerce has announced preliminary findings that producers and exporters of stainless steel flanges from India sold their products in the U.S. at prices below the normal value during the period from March 28, 2018, to September 30, 2019. The review focused particularly on Chandan Steel Limited, which did not cooperate fully, leading Commerce to assign them a high dumping margin based on available facts. As these results are preliminary, interested parties can submit comments and requests for a hearing before final results are published. The final dumping duties will be decided after considering these inputs, with possible changes to cash deposit rates for future entries of these products.

The U.S. Department of Commerce has found that Suncity Sheets Pvt., Ltd. sold welded stainless pressure pipes from India at prices lower than normal in the U.S. between November 2022 and October 2023. The department plans to end the administrative review for some companies but will continue for others like Suncity Sheets and its successor Suncity Metals, with further checks to confirm the company's name change. Interested parties are invited to review and comment on these preliminary findings.

The Department of Commerce has postponed the preliminary determinations for the less-than-fair-value investigations of overhead door counterbalance torsion springs from China and India. The delay was requested by the petitioners to allow more time for reviewing questionnaire responses and determining antidumping duty margins. Originally due by April 7, 2025, the preliminary determinations will now be issued no later than May 27, 2025. This decision follows regulations allowing postponement when the investigation is challenging and the parties are cooperating.

The Department of Commerce has decided to cancel the review of countervailing duties on certain oil country tubular goods imported from Turkey during the year 2019. This decision follows the withdrawal of the review request by the interested parties who initially asked for it. Since no other parties requested a review, the process is now rescinded entirely. The department plans to instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection to assess duties based on existing cash deposit rates accordingly.

The U.S. Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration has conducted a preliminary review of certain aluminum foil from Türkiye, determining that some producers/exporters sold their products at prices below the normal value from November 1, 2022, to October 31, 2023. As part of this review, Commerce is also canceling reviews for two companies because either no relevant entries were made during the review period or the requesting parties withdrew their requests. Interested parties are encouraged to comment on these findings, and Commerce plans to issue the final results, including the assessment rates of antidumping duties, at a later date.