President Donald Trump's memo regarding the enforcement of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure (FRCP) 65(c) likely won't affect trade litigation given that the Court of International Trade doesn't follow the FRCP and the existence of customs bonds, attorneys told Trade Law Daily.
The Commerce Department has released its final determination in the antidumping duty investigation on disposable aluminum containers, pans, trays, and lids from China (A-570-170). Cash deposit rates in this final determination are unchanged from the preliminary determination and remain in effect.
The University of California Student Association on Wednesday filed a reply further supporting their request for expedited discovery in a case about the Department of Government Efficiency's access to sensitive information, after Acting U.S. Department of Education Secretary Denise Carter asked a federal court on Monday to deny their March 4 motion (see 2503110039).
The Bureau of Industry and Security released a "preliminary" agenda for its update conference scheduled for next week. The agenda includes two plenary sessions, a panel on export enforcement, and breakout sessions covering various topics, including semiconductor export controls, "emerging technology and foreign technology analysis," end-use/end-user controls, AUKUS, export enforcement best practices, the Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services, a regulatory review, space controls, and the Defense Production Act. The agenda also includes a list of speakers, which includes senior officials from BIS, the Office of Foreign Assets Control, the State Department and the Pentagon as well as government officials from Japan, South Korea and the EU. BIS said the agenda is subject to change.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website March 11, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on silicon metal from Malaysia (A-557-820). Commerce calculated a zero percent AD rate for PMB Silicon Sdn. Bhd, the only exporter under review. The final results are unchanged from the preliminary determination. Subject merchandise from PMB Silicon entered Aug. 1, 2022, through July 31, 2023, will be liquidated without any assessment of AD, and future entries of subject merchandise exported by PMB Silicon won't be subject to AD cash deposit requirements until further notice. The new zero percent AD cash deposit rate takes effect March 11, when these final results were published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register March 11 on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CVD rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department soon will suspend liquidation and impose countervailing duty cash deposit requirements on imports of thermoformed molded fiber products from China and Vietnam, it said in a fact sheet issued March 10. The CVD rates will range from 5.99% to 153.25% for Chinese exporters, and from 3.39% to 173.51% for Vietnamese exporters, the agency said as it announced its preliminary determinations in its ongoing CVD investigations. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after the date of publication of the preliminary determinations in the Federal Register, which should occur in the coming days. Commerce is conducting concurrent antidumping duty investigations on the same products from China and Vietnam, with preliminary determinations expected by May 6.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices March 11 on AD/CVD proceedings:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website March 10, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.