HERSHEY, Pennsylvania -- FCC officials speaking Saturday at the FCBA's annual seminar expressed confidence that the agency will regain spectrum auction authority. Chief of Staff Scott Delacourt said the commission expects at least one auction, AWS-3, within the next year and is taking steps to ensure it can support that auction, such as preparing necessary IT, he said. Commissioner Nathan Simington said Congress sees midband spectrum as a priority, so a significant auction should be teed up by year-end.

The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register May 19 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 published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on steel concrete reinforcing bar from Turkey (A-489-829). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers for subject merchandise entered July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023.

The Commerce Department has published the final results of its antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on hardwood plywood products from China (A-570-051/C-570-052). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD/CVD on importers for subject merchandise entered Sept. 26, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2022.

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 19 on AD/CVD proceedings:

A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website May 16, 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 State of California and its governor, Gavin Newsom, filed an amici curiae brief on May 15 in a lawsuit brought by 12 U.S. states against all tariff action taken by President Donald Trump under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. In it, the state made a bevy of statutory arguments against the government's interpretation of IEEPA, all of which are included in the state's own lawsuit against the IEEPA tariffs (The State of Oregon v. Donald J. Trump, CIT # 25-00077).

The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register May 16 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 published the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on corrosion resistant steel from South Korea (C-580-879). These final results will be used to set final assessments of CVD on importers for subject merchandise entered Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022.

The Commerce Department has published the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on cold-rolled steel flat products from South Korea (C-580-882). These final results -- only the rate for POSCO affiliates changed, from 1.48% in the preliminary results -- will be used to set final assessments of CVD on importers for subject merchandise entered Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022.