The Commerce Department published notices in the Nov. 5 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):
The Commerce Department may retroactively suspend liquidation for entries of corrosion-resistant steel products from India, Italy, China, South Korea and Taiwan from certain exporters, it said in a preliminary critical circumstances determination issued Nov. 5 (here). Commerce found certain exporters increased shipments to the U.S. in an attempt to import as much as possible before duties are imposed in the ongoing antidumping and countervailing duty investigations, it said. Though Commerce has not yet ruled on whether subject merchandise is being dumped, the agency will order liquidation suspended and cash deposits collected for any entries from the identified exporters entered on or after 90 days before the date of its AD duty preliminary determination. Recently announced countervailing duties on corrosion resistant steel from China, Italy and South Korea will likewise be retroactive, taking effect for some exporters for any entries since August (see 1511030069).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Nov. 4 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):
The Commerce Department will require cash deposits of estimated countervailing duties on corrosion-resistant steel products from China, India, Italy and South Korea, but will not at this time require cash deposits on the same product from Taiwan, it said in an Nov. 3 fact sheet announcing its preliminary CV duty determinations (here). Rates range from 26.26% to 235.66% for China, 2.85% to 7.71% for India, zero to 38.41 percent for Italy, and zero to 1.37% for South Korea. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will be retroactive back to 90 days before the publication date of Commerce's preliminary determination for some companies from China, Italy and South Korea. Cash deposit requirements for Italy take effect upon publication of the preliminary determination. ITT will provide more details on Commerce's preliminary CV duty determinations once they are published in the Federal Register.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Nov. 3 Federal Register on the following AD/CV injury, Section 337 patent, and other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department will order CBP to retroactively suspend liquidation for all entries subject to the antidumping duty investigation on uncoated paper from Portugal entered on or after May 27, 2015, after making a preliminary determination of critical circumstances (here). According to Commerce, the only respondent in the investigation, Portugal, had “massive imports” of subject merchandise in the short period before Commerce set cash deposit requirements. Retroactive suspension of liquidation applies to all entries of subject merchandise from Portugal, regardless of the manufacturer or exporter. Commerce set the AD duty cash deposit rate for Portugal and all other Portuguese companies at 29.53% in its Aug. 26 preliminary determination.
Google and the ICANN Generic Names Supporting Organization’s (GNSO) Business Constituency (BC) strongly urged that ICANN move toward establishing a continuous process for introducing new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), in comments Friday. Others didn’t comment on whether to shift away from a rounds-based framework, but noted other areas in which changes to the program are needed. ICANN had sought comment on its preliminary report on future gTLD procedures, which urged the GNSO Council to proceed with policy development for subsequent rounds of new gTLD rollouts (see 1510050067 and 1510140065).
CBP is requesting comments by Jan. 4 on an existing information collection for unlading permit applications. CBP proposes (here) to extend the expiration date of this information collection without a change to the burden hours or information collected.
Google and the ICANN Generic Names Supporting Organization’s (GNSO) Business Constituency (BC) strongly urged that ICANN move toward establishing a continuous process for introducing new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), in comments Friday. Others didn’t comment on whether to shift away from a rounds-based framework, but noted other areas in which changes to the program are needed. ICANN had sought comment on its preliminary report on future gTLD procedures, which urged the GNSO Council to proceed with policy development for subsequent rounds of new gTLD rollouts (see 1510050067 and 1510140065).
While the American Civil Liberties Union disagrees with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' decision to deny a motion for a preliminary injunction (see 1510290070), the group said all Americans should celebrate that bulk collection of call records ends in a few weeks. The injunction would have barred the government from collecting call records under the phone metadata program, required it to quarantine call records already collected under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, and prohibited it from querying metadata obtained through the program using any phone number or other identifier associated with them. It’s now “up to the district court to address to what extent the government must purge the call records it collected unlawfully,” ACLU attorney Alex Abdo, who argued the case, said in an emailed statement to us. “In the meantime, the government still needs to rein in other overreaching NSA spying programs," he said.