The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on narrow woven ribbons with woven selvedge from Taiwan (A-583-844) (here). The agency preliminarily calculated a zero percent AD rate for Roung Shu Industry Corporation, and assigned an AD rate of 30.64% to A-Madeus Textile Ltd. If the agency's findings are continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from Roung Shu entered between September 2013 and August 2014 will not be assessed AD duties, and future entries from Roung Shu will not be subject to an AD cash deposit requirement until further notice. Any changes to rates would take effect on the date of publication in the Federal Register of the final results of this review, which are due in February.
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review and new shipper reviews on freshwater crawfish tail meat from China (A-570-848) (here). The agency preliminarily calculated a zero percent AD rates for all companies under review, including: China Kingdom (Beijing) Import & Export Co., Ltd.; Deyan Aquatic Products and Food Co., Ltd.; Hubei Yuesheng Aquatic Products Co., Ltd.; Weishan Hongda Aquatic Food Co., Ltd; and Shanghai Ocean Flavor International Trading Co., Ltd.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on circular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Thailand (A-549-502) (here). Commerce assigned both companies under review, Saba Thai Steel Pipe (Public) Company, Ltd. and Pacific Pipe Company Limited, zero percent AD duty rates. Subject merchandise from Saba Thai or Pacific Pipe entered between March. 1, 2013 and Feb. 28, 2014 will be liquidated without any assessment of AD duties, and future entries of subject merchandise exported by these two companies will not be subject to AD duty cash deposit requirements until further notice. The new AD duty cash deposit rate takes effect Oct. 2.
The House Judiciary Committee passed the Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules (Smarter) Act (HR-2745), to the House floor on a 18-10 vote during a markup of the bill Wednesday, despite protests from Democrats and FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez. The Smarter Act would eliminate the existing disparities between the two antitrust enforcement agencies -- the FTC and Justice Department -- and ensure that companies face the same standards and processes regardless of which federal agency reviews a merger. The Smarter Act was introduced in June by Antitrust Law Subcommittee Vice-Chairman Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, and co-sponsored by Antitrust Law Subcommittee Chairman Tom Marino, R-Pa., and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va.
The House Judiciary Committee passed the Standard Merger and Acquisition Reviews Through Equal Rules (Smarter) Act (HR-2745), to the House floor on a 18-10 vote during a markup of the bill Wednesday, despite protests from Democrats and FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez. The Smarter Act would eliminate the existing disparities between the two antitrust enforcement agencies -- the FTC and Justice Department -- and ensure that companies face the same standards and processes regardless of which federal agency reviews a merger. The Smarter Act was introduced in June by Antitrust Law Subcommittee Vice-Chairman Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, and co-sponsored by Antitrust Law Subcommittee Chairman Tom Marino, R-Pa., and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va.
Rural LECs further disputed FCC data that jeopardized their USF subsidies under a rule that phases out support if carriers face unsubsidized broadband/voice competition in 100 percent of their service areas. At least nine RLECs and only one competitor had reply comments posted in the proceeding in docket 10-90 by Tuesday afternoon (Monday was the deadline). They were responding to initial comments and the commission’s public notice that preliminarily found 15 RLECs appeared to face 100 percent competitive overlap based on broadband provider Form 477 deployment filings (see 1508310052 and 1507300038). All of the RLEC commenters disputed that unsubsidized competitors served all of the locations in their territories, as required under the rule to cut off support.
Rural LECs further disputed FCC data that jeopardized their USF subsidies under a rule that phases out support if carriers face unsubsidized broadband/voice competition in 100 percent of their service areas. At least nine RLECs and only one competitor had reply comments posted in the proceeding in docket 10-90 by Tuesday afternoon (Monday was the deadline). They were responding to initial comments and the commission’s public notice that preliminarily found 15 RLECs appeared to face 100 percent competitive overlap based on broadband provider Form 477 deployment filings (see 1508310052 and 1507300038). All of the RLEC commenters disputed that unsubsidized competitors served all of the locations in their territories, as required under the rule to cut off support.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Sept. 29, 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.
Antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on hot-rolled steel flat products from Australia, Brazil, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Turkey, and the United Kingdom will continue, after the International Trade Commission voted on Sept. 24 that there is a "reasonable indication" U.S. industry is injured by dumped and subsidized imports (here). All five ITC commissioners that are participating in the investigations voted affirmatively. The Commerce Department will now consider whether to impose cash deposit requirements on hot-rolled steel in its preliminary CV duty determinations, currently due Nov. 4, and its preliminary AD determinations, due Jan. 18 (both deadlines may be postponed).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Sept. 25 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):