A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Aug. 25, 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.
Media Matters and the FTC are clashing over the agency's requested stay of a preliminary injunction in a federal probe over advertiser boycotts. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia earlier this month granted the left-leaning journalism watchdog group a preliminary injunction against the agency's civil investigative demand (CID) in the probe (see 2508180026). The FTC last week asked the court to stay the preliminary injunction pending appeal. It told the court (docket 1:25-cv-01959) it has issued 17 CIDs to advertising trade associations, brand safety rating organizations and advocacy groups like Media Matters as it investigates whether online advertisers or ad agencies coordinated the placement of ads in ways that had certain news outlets or platforms rated not "brand suitable" or "brand safe." The preliminary injunction impedes the FTC investigation by barring it from determining whether Media Matters has any information relevant to the investigation into advertiser boycotts, the agency said.
The Commerce Department is beginning an anti-circumvention inquiry to determine whether imports of paper plates from Cambodia and Malaysia are circumventing antidumping duties and countervailing duties on paper plates from China (A-570-164/C-570-165), it said in a notice published Aug. 22.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Aug. 22 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 and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Aug. 22 on AD/CVD proceedings:
A bevy of entities, including advocacy organizations and media groups like the New York Times, filed amicus briefs earlier this week that blasted California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) Act for infringing on privacy and First Amendment rights, with some saying the statute reigns in nearly every form of online content including news sites.
The Court of International Trade dismissed Aug. 21 a case brought by Canadian lumber exporter J.D. Irving in an attempt to secure a lower antidumping duty cash deposit rate for some of its entries.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Aug. 21 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 has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on finished carbon steel flanges from Spain (A-469-815; CBP A-470-815). The agency preliminarily calculated a zero percent AD rate for the only company under review, ULMA Forja, S.Coop. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from ULMA entered June 1, 2023, through May 31, 2024, won't be assessed AD. Any changes to rates for ULMA would take effect on the date that the final results of this review, due in December, are published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on citric acid and certain citrate salts from Belgium (A-423-813). The agency preliminarily calculated a zero percent AD rate for the only company under review, Citribel nv. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from Citribel entered July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024, won't be assessed AD. Any changes to rates for Citribel would take effect on the date of publication in the Federal Register of the final results of this review, due in December.