The Commerce Department adequately calculated the boat freight surrogate value in an antidumping duty review without making an adjustment for distance, the U.S. argued. Responding to respondent Giti Tire Global Trading's motion for judgment at the Court of International Trade, the government said Commerce showed that its calculation was in line with its past practice (Giti Tire Global Trading v. United States, CIT # 24-00083).

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Jan. 7 clarified the standard Commerce must follow when determining how high it can set a review respondent’s antidumping duty rate based on adverse inferences. Rejecting a "single sentence" justification for an adverse facts available rate Commerce offered in the final results of a review, it held the department may not drastically depart from accuracy without establishing a "particularly strong need to deter noncompliance" based on record evidence showing unreasonable negligence or intentional misconduct.

The International Trade Commission published notices in the Jan. 7 Federal Register on the following AD/CVD injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):

The Commerce Department intends to recognize four Canadian companies as cross-owned entities for the purposes of countervailing duties on softwood lumber products from Canada (C-122-858). The agency in the preliminary results of a changed circumstances review found Interfor Sales & Marketing Ltd. (ISM) is cross-owned with Interfor Corporation, EACOM Timber Corporation, Chaleur Forest Products Inc., and Chaleur Forest Products LP, four producers/exporters also subject to the CVD order on certain softwood lumber from Canada. Commerce noted that the purpose of the CCR doesn't include identifying the applicable cash deposit rates for the companies in question but said that all four already have been assigned the cash deposit rate that non-selected companies have.

The Commerce Department issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on float glass products from China and Malaysia (A-570-188/C-570-189, A-557-832/C-557-833). The CVD investigations cover entries for the calendar year 2023. The AD investigation on Malaysia covers entries Oct. 1, 2023, through Sept. 30, 2024, and the AD investigation on China covers entries April 1, 2024, through Sept. 30, 2024.

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Jan. 7 on AD/CVD proceedings:

A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Jan. 6, 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 U.S. District Court of Tennessee will hold a telephone status conference on Wednesday to discuss the status of a state age-verification law that took effect Jan. 1, said Judge William Campbell.

The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Jan. 6 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):

The International Trade Commission on Jan. 3 amended its rules of practice and procedure to make various technical corrections, clarify certain provisions, harmonize parts of the ITC's rules and "address concerns that have arisen in Commission practice." The amendments include "replacing gender-specific language with gender-neutral language in the rules," eliminating paper copies and to permanently abide by e-filing requirements, and clarifying the sufficiency of a complaint alleging a violation of Section 337.