A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Nov. 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 Florida Department of Health could still prosecute abortion-rights group Floridians Protecting Freedom or stations airing its ads after Election Day, so a preliminary injunction is needed, the group told the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Florida in supplemental filings Tuesday (see 2410290028). The court last week requested supplemental briefs from both sides on whether an injunction would be needed after Election Day and whether the case is now moot because Florida voters that day would be deciding the fate of the amendment that FPF’s "Caroline" advertisement supported. “Even if FPF no longer actively airs ‘Caroline’ via broadcast stations, ‘Caroline’ will continue to be available to the public online; FPF cannot put that speech back in a box,” FPF said. However, “The risk of post-election enforcement appears quite unlikely,” said the Florida Department of Health. The Florida DOH has said it isn’t planning to prosecute TV stations airing the ad, and would do so only if it finds that the ad's message harmed a Florida citizen. The ad says that abortions aren’t available in Florida to save the life of the mother. “FPF raises the specter that the presence of its advertisement online might somehow trigger a belated enforcement action,” the Florida DOH said. “But such a fear is misplaced.” Television “is unique in its ability to reach a captive audience,” the state said. Florida “has never taken the position that it would consider mere publication of the ‘Caroline’ commercial online a sanitary nuisance in Florida,” the state said. “The context and circumstances are entirely different.” In addition, Florida said the case isn’t moot while the ads air on TV but will become so after the election. “It is no answer to suggest that there is some lingering possibility of enforcement in a different, future context,” the state said. “Any risk of enforcement-related harm is highly speculative.” After the election but before the current temporary restraining order against the state expires Nov. 12, Florida will file supplemental materials with the court on whether it has found harms that would trigger prosecution, the state said. FPF said that Florida continuing to “defend the Department’s ability to enforce sanitary nuisance laws as applied to FPF’s speech is itself reason to conclude that this case is not moot.”
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Nov. 6 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Nov. 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 Commerce Department has released the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on large diameter welded pipe from South Korea (C-580-898). These final results will be used to set final assessments of CVD on importers for subject merchandise entered during calendar year 2022.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Nov. 4, 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 Court of International Trade rejected importer Retractable Technologies' bids for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction stopping the collection of Section 301 duties on its needles and syringes. However, in a decision made public Nov. 4, Judge Claire Kelly did stop liquidation of Retractable's entries during the course of the company's suit, which challenges the legality of a Section 301 rate hike on needles and syringes.
The Philippines opened a preliminary safeguard investigation on cement Oct. 31, it told the World Trade Organization's Committee on Safeguards on Nov. 4. The Philippines said interested parties should submit comments to the Bureau of Import Services within five days of Nov. 4.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Nov. 5 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 Commerce Department made preliminary affirmative antidumping duty determinations that imports of ferrosilicon from Brazil (A-351-860), Kazakhstan (A-834-812) and Malaysia (A-557-828) are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. AD suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements take effect Nov. 6, 2024.