The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Feb. 21 on AD/CVD proceedings:
It’s unclear if fired Democratic members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board will be reinstated, but recent legal success against the Trump administration is encouraging, newly dismissed PCLOB member Travis LeBlanc said Friday (see 2502110062).
The U.S. District Court of Montana ordered a stay of proceedings in a case about the state’s attempt at banning TikTok Wednesday, after the parties jointly moved for the motion.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas lifted its preliminary injunction against the enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act on Feb. 18, meaning CTA reporting requirements are now "once again back in effect," the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network said.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Feb. 20 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 U.S.District Court for the Eastern District of Texas stayed its preliminary injunction against the enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act's (CTA's) beneficial ownership information reporting requirements after the Supreme Court granted a stay of a similar injunction in another case against the requirements. Judge Jeremy Kernodle lifted the preliminary injunction, citing the high court's decision (Smith v. U.S. Department of Treasury, E.D. Tex. # 6:24-336).
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate from South Korea (A-580-887). Commerce continued its preliminary results, finding that POSCO didn't make sales of subject merchandise at less than fair value, and kept in the final results the zero percent AD rate it had preliminarily assigned to the POSCO single entity, which includes its affiliated companies -- POSCO International Corporation, POSCO MS, and certain distributors and service centers (i.e., Taechang Steel Co., Ltd. and Winsteel Co., Ltd.) -- the only company under review.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the countervailing duty administrative review on certain oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from South Korea (C-580-913). These final results will be used to set final assessments of CVD on importers for subject merchandise entered .Sept. 29, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Feb. 20 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The International Trade Commission erred in failing to consider diesel fuel price increases when assessing whether imports of frozen warmwater shrimp from Ecuador, India, Indonesia and Vietnam harmed the U.S. industry, Ecuadorian respondents Industrial Pesquera Santa Priscila and Sociedad Nacional De Galapagos argued. Filing a complaint at the Court of International Trade on Feb. 18, the pair said the injury finding was unsupported by the record, due to the lack of information about fuel price increases (Industrial Pesquera Santa Priscila v. United States, CIT # 25-00029).