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Ref. : EIC 111/3/10/1

26 March 2024

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 230/2024

US : Regulations Improving and Strengthening the Enforcement of Trade Remedies Through the Administration of the Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws

The US Department of Commerce (DoC) published a final rule on 25 March 2024 in the Federal Register (FR) that it is amending its regulations to enhance, improve and strengthen its enforcement and administration of the antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) laws. Specifically, DoC is revising some of its procedures, codifying certain areas of its practice, and enhancing certain areas of its methodologies and analyses to address price and cost distortions, as well as certain countervailable subsidies, in different capacities. These amendments are effective on 24 April 2024. The FR notice is available at: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-03-25/pdf/2024-05509.pdf.

2.The amendments in the final rule are the AD/CVD statutory and regulatory provisions in general, as well as those pertaining to filing requirements, scope, circumvention, and covered merchandise inquiries, the use of new factual information, the CVD facts available hierarchy, surrogate value and CVD benchmark selections, particular market situations, and certain types of countervailable subsidies.

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3.For traders involved in the export of the subject products produced in Guangdong, please contact Zheng Jingmin, Director of Trade Remedy and Industry Injury Investigation Division under the Guangdong Department of Commerce at 8620 3881 9797. The Division is responsible for, among others, guiding and coordinating enterprises in the Guangdong Province in responding to antidumping investigations against products of the Province.

4.For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact Miss K Y HO at telephone number 2398 5405.

Yours faithfully,

(Miss Kwany KOU)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry

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