Last week, the U.S. Commerce Department issued preliminary determinations in its anti-dumping duty investigations of tin mill products from a number of countries, using what it considered to be an insufficient response from Chinese companies to set much higher duties for them than for companies from other countries.

Last week, the U.S. Department of Commerce took a step towards applying countervailing duties on Chinese tin mill products, with a parallel proceeding on anti-dumping duties still underway.

In two recent trade remedy decisions, the U.S. Commerce Department made preliminary determinations on anti-dumping/countervailing duties on file folders and pressure washers from China.

Following the Chinese government's May 21 decision to ban its critical information infrastructure operators from purchasing chips made by Micron, two key members of Congress called on the U.S. Commerce Department "to work with Japan and South Korea to ensure their companies do not take market

The two sides expressed their concerns but no issues were resolved.

The U.S. Commerce Department has issued final determinations in AD/CVD cases on Chinese freight rail couplers. The final injury determinations are due in the next few weeks.

Last month, the U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) imposed a record penalty on a company that sold hard disk drives to Huawei.