The Commerce Department properly found that Export Packers Company's individually quick frozen cooked garlic cloves are outside the scope of the antidumping duty order on fresh garlic from China, Export Packers argued in a Jan. 16 brief at the Court of International Trade. The exporter argued that, contrary to petitioner Fresh Garlic Producers Association's claims, the plain language of the scope excludes Export Packers' cooked garlic and other sources, including a separate scope ruling on blanched garlic and Commerce's preliminary determination, don't support the petitioner's arguments (Export Packers Company v. United States, CIT # 24-00061).
Representatives of the Industry Traceback Group (ITG) provided preliminary observations on its work in 2025 in an FCC filing posted Thursday in docket 17-59. Since 2020, tracebacks “increasingly end with providers identified as U.S.-based,” rather than foreign-based, the ITG said. More than 30 new providers are identified in tracebacks on average each month, and last year, 110 U.S. and 82 non-U.S. providers failed to respond to traceback requests, it said. “Patterns of repeated and overlapping relationships may indicate intentional strategic obfuscation rather than isolated incidents.”
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Jan. 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 and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Jan. 16 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Google will pay $8.25 million in a settlement resolving class-action allegations that it collected minors’ personal information without parental consent and used it for advertising (see 2306230041), it said Tuesday. However, the search giant “vigorously denied … allegations of wrongdoing” in case 5:23-cv-03101 at the U.S. District Court for Northern California.
The Commerce Department made a preliminary affirmative antidumping determination that lattice boom crawler cranes from Japan (A-588-883) are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The agency will impose antidumping duty cash requirements on entries of subject merchandise beginning Jan. 16, the date this preliminary determination is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Jan. 14, 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 Jan. 14 denied Miller & Chevalier's motion for a limited lifting of the stay imposed by the trade court in a handful of new cases seeking refunds of tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
The Court of International Trade on Jan. 14 confirmed that the government's stipulation regarding the availability of refunds from tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act "applies to all current and future similarly situated plaintiffs."
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Jan. 14 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):