A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website May 13, 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 on May 13 heard arguments in the lead case on the president's ability to impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. Judges Jane Restani, Gary Katzmann and Timothy Reif pressed counsel for the plaintiffs, the Liberty Justice Center's Jeffrey Schwab, and DOJ attorney Eric Hamilton on whether the court can review whether a declared emergency is "unusual and extraordinary," as well as the applicability of Yoshida International v. U.S., a key precedential decision on the issue, and whether the major questions doctrine applies and controls the case (V.O.S. Selections v. Trump, CIT # 25-00066).

The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register May 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 recently issued antidumping and countervailing duty orders on isposable aluminum containers, pans, trays, and lids from China (A-570-170/C-570-171). The orders set permanent antidumping and countervailing duties, which will remain in place unless revoked by Commerce in a sunset or changed circumstances review. Commerce will now begin conducting annual administrative reviews, if requested, to determine final assessments of AD/CVD on importers and make changes to cash deposit rates.

Retroactive suspension of liquidation and antidumping and countervailing duty cash deposit requirements take effect for acidic solid 1-hydroxyethylidene-1, 1-diphosphonic acid from China entered on or after Dec. 19, 2024, the Commerce Department said in the preliminary determination of an anti-circumvention inquiry.

The Commerce Department will soon suspend liquidation and impose countervailing duty cash deposit requirements on imports of float glass products from China and Malaysia, it said in a fact sheet issued May 13. The CVD rates will range from 11.41% to 891.62% for Chinese exporters and 19.09% to 101.99% for Malaysian exporters, the agency said as it announced its preliminary determinations in its ongoing CVD investigations. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after the date of publication of the preliminary determinations in the Federal Register, which should occur in the coming days. Commerce is conducting concurrent antidumping duty investigations on the same product from China, with a preliminary determination expected by July 9.

The Commerce Department soon will suspend liquidation and impose countervailing duty cash deposit requirements on imports of erythritol from China, it said in a fact sheet issued May 13. The CVD rates will range from 3.29 % to 3.49% for Chinese exporters, the agency said as it announced its preliminary determinations in its ongoing CVD investigation. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after the date of publication of the preliminary determinations in the Federal Register, which should occur in the coming days. Commerce is conducting concurrent antidumping duty investigations on the same product from China, with a preliminary determination expected by July 11.

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 13 on AD/CVD proceedings:

A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website May 12, 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.

Representatives of WTA, Lict and Totah Communications met with Wireline Bureau staff on the enhanced-alternative connect America cost model, seeking an update. The representatives “raised concerns about some ambiguities in how this adjustment process would be applied, and the potential for significant adverse consequences,” said a filing last week in docket 10-90. Bureau staff “indicated that they are on track to complete the adjustment determinations by the end of the year, and that they intended to issue a preliminary data set of the changed locations and support adjustments for the rural broadband providers to review (and seek to correct) before the process is finalized.”