The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on seamless refined copper pipe and tube from Mexico (A-201-838) (here). Commerce assigned the only company under review, GD Affiliates S. de R.L. de C.V., a zero percent AD duty rate. Subject merchandise from GD Affiliates entered between Nov. 1, 2013 and Oct. 31, 2014 will be liquidated without any assessment of AD duties, and future entries of subject merchadise exported by GD Affiliates will not be subject to AD duty cash deposit requirements until further notice. The new AD duty cash deposit rate takes effect Nov. 12.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of its antidumping duty administrative review on steel threaded rod from China (A-570-932) (here). For entries on or after Nov. 12, Commerce is setting a 39.42% AD duty cash deposit rate for IFI & Morgan Ltd. and RMB Fasteners Ltd. Commerce will calculate importer-specific assessment rates for all entries of subject merchandise from RMB/IFI with a time of entry between April 1, 2013 through March 30, 2014.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on steel wire garment hangers from China (A-570-918) (here). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for entries from Oct. 1, 2013 through Sept. 30, 2014.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Nov. 10, 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 http://adcvd.cbp.dhs.gov/adcvdweb
Senior senators from multiple committees are gearing up to advance the spectrum draft legislation that Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune, R-S.D., began circulating Friday. He told us Tuesday that he is enlisting aid from other committees, including that of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and, as expected, plans a Commerce Committee markup of the wide-ranging spectrum package before Thanksgiving (see 1511090051).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Nov. 10 Federal Register on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms, or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Nov. 9, 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 http://adcvd.cbp.dhs.gov/adcvdweb
NSA was barred as part of its spying program from collecting any phone records for two of the five plaintiffs in a case. U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Richard Leon ruled again Monday for those plaintiffs in Klayman v. Obama. Leon’s ruling was 20 days before the NSA is scheduled to cease its classified bulk telephony metadata program. Still, it could have far-reaching implications, privacy advocates told us.
NSA was barred as part of its spying program from collecting any phone records for two of the five plaintiffs in a case. U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Richard Leon ruled again Monday for those plaintiffs in Klayman v. Obama. Leon’s ruling was 20 days before the NSA is scheduled to cease its classified bulk telephony metadata program. Still, it could have far-reaching implications, privacy advocates told us.
A federal judge rejected a proposed $15.5 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit against Comcast, saying it lacks "a reliable and administratively feasible mechanism" for figuring out who falls within the class definition. U.S. District Judge Anita Brody in Philadelphia Thursday denied a Comcast motion for certification of a settlement class and preliminary approval of class-action settlement. Comcast lacks records for most former subscribers, including any before 2010, and it needs a better model for screening out people who don't belong in the class than the one proposed, Brody said in her order. The multidistrict litigation is a combination of 24 civil actions against Comcast consolidated in 2009 and alleging the cable company wrongfully tied subscribing to its Premium Cable tier to rental of a Comcast set-top box. The proposed settlement would include all people who lived in and subscribed to Premium Cable in California, Washington or West Virginia in the class period or who subscribed to Premium Cable in any state during the class period and opted out of Comcast's arbitration clause and who paid Comcast a set-top box rental fee. The class period is Jan. 1, 2005, up to the point of the court's giving preliminary approval to a settlement agreement. While Comcast's proposed settlement includes a variety of ways for determining whether former subscribers fall within the class definition, such as use of canceled checks or old bills or credit card receipts, Brody said it was "implausible" that such evidence would show a person was both a Premium subscriber and had rented a set-top box. And relying on sworn statements alone has been previously rejected in a 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision, Brody said. Comcast didn't comment Friday.