A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Feb. 3, 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 thermal paper from South Korea (A-580-911). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers of subject merchandise entered between Nov. 1, 2022, and Oct. 31, 2023.
The U.S. District Court of Idaho on Monday denied data broker Kochava's motion to dismiss a case alleging that the broker's data sales are unfair acts or practices likely to cause substantial injury to consumers in violation of Section 5(a) of the FTC Act. Kochava moved to dismiss on the basis that Section 5(a) requires tangible consumer injury and a violation of well-established legal policy, the order said. The court said the "FTC is authorized to seek injunctive relief if it has 'reason to believe' that a business is violating, or is about to violate, a law enforced by the FTC," denying Kochava's motion.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Panamanian officials Feb. 2 that President Donald Trump has made a preliminary determination that China’s influence and control over the Panama Canal area threatens the waterway and violates the 1977 agreement that transferred U.S. control of the canal to Panama, according to State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Jan. 30 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 looks set to recognize a Canadian company's name change for the purposes of countervailing duties on softwood lumber products from Canada (C-122-858). The agency preliminarily found that TRAPA Forest Products Ltd. is the successor-in-interest to Trans-Pacific Trading Ltd. in the preliminary results of a changed circumstances review published Jan. 31. The agency preliminarily found that Trans-Pacific changed its name to TRAPA but otherwise continues to operate as the same business entity as before. If Commerce confirms its findings in the final results, TRAPA will inherit the CVD rate assigned to Trans-Pacific Trading, which was 6.74% (the review average rate) in the final results of a CVD administrative review for Jan. 1, 2021, and Dec. 31, 2021, published in August 2024 (see 2408160017). Commerce has recognized the name change and allowed TRAPA to inherit Trans-Pacific's rate for the purposes of the antidumping duties on subject merchandise (see 2409200061).
The Commerce Department published its preliminary affirmative antidumping determination Jan. 30 that low speed personal transportation vehicles from China (A-570-176), including golf carts, are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. Commerce found “critical circumstances” for all Chinese companies, and will retroactively suspend liquidation and impose antidumping duty cash deposit requirements for all subject merchandise as of Nov. 1.
NetChoice fired back at the Mississippi Attorney General Friday for attempting to reverse a preliminary injunction on a children’s online safety law, arguing that the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in NetChoice v. Paxton has no bearing on an ongoing case in the state. AG Lynn Fitch (R) on Wednesday filed a letter to the 5th U.S. Circuit urging that it rule against an injunction, as it did in the Paxton case.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Jan. 31 on AD/CVD proceedings:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Jan. 30, 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.