The Commerce Department released notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on active anode material from China (A-570-194/C-570-195). The CVD investigation covers entries Jan. 1, 2023, through Dec. 31, 2023. The AD investigation covers entries April 1, 2024, through Sept. 30, 2024.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) opposed an injunction on a state law that would regulate addictive social media feeds for minors, arguing the organization didn't prove that the challenged provisions in the law are unconstitutional. In November, NetChoice sued Bonta over SB-976, alleging it undermines free speech and privacy principles.
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody (R) on Monday asked to dismiss the Computer and Communications Industry Association's (CCIA) complaint against a kids social media bill. Also, Florida opposed the plaintiff’s motion for a preliminary injunction.
Indian aluminum sheet exporter Hindalco Industries brought a complaint Jan. 10 to the Court of International Trade, saying the Commerce Department wrongly found to be specific programs by which Hindalco had been provided bauxite mining rights and coal and bauxite by the government of India for less-than-adequate remuneration (Hindalco Industries v. United States, CIT # 24-00234).
The Commerce Department is beginning an anti-circumvention inquiry on allegations that standard steel welded wire mesh made in the U.S. using low-carbon steel wire from Mexico is circumventing the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on standard steel welded wire mesh from Mexico (A-201-853/C-201-854), the agency said in a notice.
The Commerce Department released notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on sol gel alumina-based ceramic abrasive grains from China (A-570-190/C-570-191). The CVD investigation covers entries Jan. 1, 2023, through Dec. 31, 2023. The AD investigation covers entries April 1, 2024, through Sept. 30, 2024.
The Commerce Department soon will suspend liquidation and impose antidumping duty cash deposit requirements on imports of vanillin from China, it said in a fact sheet issued Jan. 10. Commerce set AD rates ranging from 186.15% to 379.82% for Chinese exporters, it announced in its preliminary determinations in its ongoing AD 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 also is conducting a concurrent countervailing duty investigation on vanillin from China (see 2411150040).
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Jan. 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.
DirecTV joined EchoStar in asking a federal court not to lift the preliminary injunction put on the Venu sports streaming joint venture of Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery. Plaintiff FuboTV settling with Disney "does nothing to resolve the underlying antitrust violations at issue" with Venu, DirectTV wrote U.S. District Court for Southern New York Judge Margaret Garnett on Thursday (docket 24-cv-1363). EchoStar made a similar argument with the court this week (see 250108002).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Jan. 10 on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):