In a 2-1 decision Wednesday, a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals set aside a Maryland district judge’s injunction that had ordered various agencies to reinstate probationary federal employees fired by the Trump administration. The FCC wasn’t one of the agencies, but the action affects DOD and Department of Commerce employees.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices April 10 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Exporter Fuzhou Hengli Paper Co. is contesting a number of decisions the Commerce Department made during an antidumping duty investigation on paper plates from China, including the agency's surrogate selection, its finding of critical circumstances, its valuation of Fuzhou Hengli’s factors of production and its assignment of total adverse facts available to the exporter in (Fuzhou Hengli Paper Co. v. U.S., CIT # 25-00064).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register April 9 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 is beginning an antidumping investigation on polypropylene corrugated boxes from China and Vietnam, and a countervailing duty investigation of the same goods from China, it said in a fact sheet April 8. The underlying petition was filed in March (see 2503190012). The International Trade Commission is scheduled to make its preliminary injury determinations by May 2. These AD/CVD investigations will continue only if the ITC finds injury. International Trade Today will provide more details upon publication of the initiation notices in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices April 9 on AD/CVD proceedings:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website April 8, 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 has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on superabsorbent polymers from South Korea (A-580-914). The agency preliminarily calculated a zero percent AD rate for LG Chem, Ltd., the only company under review. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from LG Chem entered between June 7, 2022, and Nov. 30, 2023, won't be assessed AD, and no cash deposits would be required on merchandise from LG Chem beginning on the date the final results are published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of a countervailing duty administrative review of softwood lumber products from Canada (C-122-858). This review covers subject merchandise from the exporters under review entered during the period Jan. 1, 2023, through Dec. 31, 2023.
The Commerce Department soon will suspend liquidation and impose antidumping duty cash deposit requirements on imports of corrosion-resistant steel products from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Africa, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam, it said in a fact sheet issued April 4.