The Commerce Department has released its final determination in the antidumping duty investigation on overhead door counterbalance torsion springs from China (A-570-186). Cash deposit rates set in this final determination take effect Aug. 15.
A domestic producer recently filed a petition with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission requesting imposition of antidumping duties and countervailing duties on high purity dissolving pulp (HPDP) from Brazil and Norway. Commerce now will decide whether to begin AD/CVD investigations, which could result in the imposition of permanent AD/CVD orders and the assessment of AD and CVD on importers. Rayonier Advanced Materials, Inc. and the United Steelworkers labor union requested the investigation.
Since an appeals court believes the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and others are unlikely to succeed on the merits of their privacy case that challenges the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) access to sensitive government data, the court overturned a district court's ruling that let AFT temporarily block DOGE.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Aug. 14 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The U.S. Supreme Court allowed a Mississippi age-verification law to stand Thursday, denying NetChoice's emergency application that would have blocked the measure.
Legislation significantly revamping Israel's data protection law took effect Thursday, but the country's privacy watchdog said it will delay enforcement of one of its provisions until October.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Aug. 13 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. 13 on AD/CVD proceedings:
A German regional court on Tuesday dismissed a request for a preliminary injunction in a General Data Protection Regulation-related lawsuit against Meta over its AI-related data processing.
A federal court granted a preliminary injunction Tuesday blocking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from using certain states' Medicaid data for immigration enforcement purposes. The block from the U.S. District Court for Northern California comes after a multistate coalition, led by California, filed a lawsuit against HHS for providing individuals' health data to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency (see 2507010060).