U.S. Commerce Rescinds 2024 Countervailing Duty Review on Canadian Utility-Scale Wind Towers
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The U.S. Department of Commerce has closed its 2024 review of countervailing duties on utility-scale wind towers from Canada because it found no reviewable entries during the review period. For companies involved in importing or supplying these towers, the practical result is that no new duty rate will be calculated from this review and current cash deposit requirements stay in place.
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Key Changes
- Commerce rescinded the 2024 countervailing duty administrative review in full.
- No new cash deposit rates will be set from this review; existing deposit requirements remain unchanged.
- CBP will still assess duties on any appropriate entries using the cash deposit rate in effect at entry.
Obligations
What this law requires
Commerce must rescind the administrative review of the countervailing duty order on utility-scale wind towers from Canada because it found no reviewable entries during the period of review.
Commerce will instruct U.S. Customs and Border Protection to assess countervailing duties on any appropriate entries of utility scale wind towers from Canada at the cash deposit rate of estimated countervailing duties that applied at the time of entry or withdrawal from warehouse for consumption.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection must continue to apply the current cash deposit requirements for subject entries; no new cash deposit rate may be changed as a result of this rescinded review.
The current cash deposit requirements for the countervailing duty order on utility scale wind towers from Canada remain in effect until further notice; importers must continue to apply the existing deposit rates because no new cash deposit rate will be established by this rescission.
Parties subject to an Administrative Protective Order must return or destroy proprietary information disclosed under the APO, or convert the matter to a judicial protective order, and provide timely written notification to Commerce.