A major rewrite of antidumping duty and countervailing duty laws, first introduced five years ago but only passed in one chamber (see 2203030053), was reintroduced this week by Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., and Sen. Tina Smith, D-Minn.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is fulfilling statutory work obligations while carrying out the Trump administration’s plan to streamline operations, DOJ said in a filing Monday.
The U.S. District Court for Maryland partially granted a motion Monday for a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) access to sensitive personal information at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Education Department. The plaintiffs clearly showed that they would suffer irreparable harm without injunctive relief, the court said.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Feb. 24, 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 failed to investigate subsidies received by cross-owned suppliers of fresh shrimp in the countervailing duty investigation on frozen warmwater shrimp from Ecuador, petitioner American Shrimp Processors Association argued in a Feb. 21 complaint at the Court of International Trade. The association also contested Commerce's findings that the provision of fuel and brackish water for less than adequate remuneration were not countervailable (American Shrimp Processors Association v. United States, CIT # 25-00026).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Feb. 24 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 finalized its preliminary finding (see 2501300068) that Trapa Forest Products Ltd. is the successor-in-interest to Trans-Pacific Trading Ltd. for the purposes of countervailing duties on softwood lumber products from Canada (C-122-858). Commerce said it continues to find that Trans-Pacific changed its name to Trapa but otherwise continues to operate as the same business entity as before, in the final results of a changed circumstances review released Feb. 24. Trapa will inherit the CVD rate assigned to Trans-Pacific Trading, which was 6.74% (the review average rate) in the final results of a CVD administrative review for calendar year 2021, published in August 2024 (see 2408160017). Commerce has recognized the name change and allowed Trapa to inherit Trans-Pacific's rate for the purposes of the antidumping duties on subject merchandise (see 2409200061).
The Commerce Department has released the final results of a countervailing duty administrative review of stainless steel flanges from India (C-533-878). Rates set in this review will be used to set importer assessments for subject merchandise from Pradeep Metals entered during the period Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022.
A U.S. District Court of Southern New York judge granted a preliminary injunction Friday prohibiting Treasury Department employees who are not in a Senate-confirmed position from accessing department systems that contain personally identifiable information (PII) or financial information of payees.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Feb. 24 on AD/CVD proceedings: