OIRA Completes Review of AD/CVD Regulatory Changes

The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs recently finished its review of a Commerce Department final rule to overhaul antidumping and countervailing duty regulations, it said in a notice. One change proposed by Commerce last year would allow it to retroactively suspend liquidation and require AD/CVD cash deposits as a result of scope rulings (see 2008120037). In comments on the proposal, importers challenged changes to liquidation timelines in scope inquiries, as well as tighter deadlines that they said make it harder to defend from AD/CVD cases see 2009230042).