Pea protein exporters and an importer said May 27 the International Trade Commission is wrongly attempting to create a new legal standard for determining the existence of critical circumstances (NURA USA v. United States, CIT Consol. # 24-00182).

A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website May 30, 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.

Following decisions from the Court of International Trade and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia invalidating tariff action taken under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, questions remain about which court has the right view on whether the trade court has exclusive jurisdiction to hear cases on IEEPA tariffs. Relatedly, the issue affects where importers may file suit to contest the imposition of IEEPA tariffs or seek refunds of duties paid under tariff action found to be unlawful.

The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register May 30 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):

Suspension of liquidation and antidumping duty cash deposit requirements took effect May 29 for imports of paper file folders from Sri Lanka (A-542-806), after the Commerce Department found dumping in the preliminary determination of its ongoing AD investigation.

The Commerce Department made preliminary affirmative antidumping duty determinations that imports of hard empty capsules from Brazil (A-351-864), China (A-570-184), India (A-533-934) and Vietnam (A-552-847) are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The agency has imposed AD cash deposit requirements on entries of subject merchandise beginning May 29.

The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on certain oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from South Korea (A-580-870). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise from six companies under review entered September 2022 through August 2023.

The Commerce Department will impose further antidumping duties on monosodium glutamate imports from Malaysia, suspending liquidation and requiring AD cash deposits for entries over two and a half years earlier, and ending a certification process that had allowed some Malaysian MSG imports to avoid the duties.

A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website May 29, 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 Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 30 on AD/CVD proceedings: