Antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on corrosion-resistant steel products from China, India, Italy, South Korea and Taiwan will continue, after the International Trade Commission voted on July 16 that there is a "reasonable indication" U.S. industry is injured by dumped and subsidized imports (here). All six ITC commissioners voted affirmatively. The Commerce Department will now consider whether to impose cash deposit requirements on corrosion-resistant steel in its preliminary CV duty determinations, currently due Aug. 27, and its preliminary AD determinations, due Nov 10 (both deadlines may be postponed).
Lawmakers are still aiming to formally launch and then wrap up legislative conference for Customs Reauthorization before the August recess, said several Senate Republican conferees on July 16. “I hope we can get that done before we go,” said Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah. Hatch declined to comment on the fight over the PROTECT and ENFORCE Act and the prospect for Miscellaneous Tariff Bill process reform. Lawmakers will leave Washington on July 31 for a five-week recess.
Mexico's Diario Oficial of July 16 lists trade-related notices as follows:
AT&T urged the FCC to reject Windstream’s attempt to re-regulate ethernet rates of ILECs, including as part of an IP technology transition order that is expected to be placed on the preliminary agenda Thursday for the Aug. 6 commission open meeting. FCC ethernet rate regulation would be legally defective and bad policy, given how competitive the business market for ethernet services is, AT&T said in an ex parte filing posted Tuesday in the tech transition docket 13-5 and others.
AT&T urged the FCC to reject Windstream’s attempt to re-regulate ethernet rates of ILECs, including as part of an IP technology transition order that is expected to be placed on the preliminary agenda Thursday for the Aug. 6 commission open meeting. FCC ethernet rate regulation would be legally defective and bad policy, given how competitive the business market for ethernet services is, AT&T said in an ex parte filing posted Tuesday in the tech transition docket 13-5 and others.
The Commerce Department published notices in the July 15 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):
Advanced Digital Broadcast, the Swiss-based supplier of HD set-top boxes, residential gateway devices and other products to pay-TV operators worldwide, is seeking a preliminary injunction preventing HDMI Licensing from canceling its license agreement and preventing customs authorities from seizing ADB goods, the company said in a motion filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose. ADB wants the court to set an Aug. 12 motions hearing on the injunction request. ADB moved for the injunction days after its complaint accused HDMI Licensing of “wrongfully” demanding $905,000 in back royalties it doesn’t owe (see 1507010017). The complaint didn’t seek a preliminary injunction, only a court “declaration” that HDMI Licensing “is precluded” from notifying customs that ADB goods “are unauthorized and subject to seizure because they are not.” ADB has argued it has dutifully paid HDMI Licensing the 4 cent-per-unit royalty it owed, but that the licensor is wrongfully demanding 10 cents per unit more on the grounds -- denied by ADB -- that ADB failed to “reasonably” incorporate HDMI trademarks on its product documentation materials. If HDMI Licensing isn't “enjoined” from canceling the license agreement and calling for customs seizures of ADB shipments, ADB “will suffer immediate irreparable harm as it will no longer be able to represent to its customers that it supplies licensed products,” its injunction motion said. “The inability to do so will severely harm the reputation of ADB and the goodwill it has established in the U.S. market and its industry worldwide.” ADB also fears the jobs of its 50 U.S. employees will be “at risk,” it said. HDMI Licensing representatives have declined comment on the case.
Advanced Digital Broadcast, the Swiss-based supplier of HD set-top boxes, residential gateway devices and other products to pay-TV operators worldwide, is seeking a preliminary injunction preventing HDMI Licensing from canceling its license agreement and preventing customs authorities from seizing ADB goods, the company said in a motion filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose. ADB wants the court to set an Aug. 12 motions hearing on the injunction request. ADB moved for the injunction days after its complaint accused HDMI Licensing of “wrongfully” demanding $905,000 in back royalties it doesn’t owe (see 1507010017). The complaint didn’t seek a preliminary injunction, only a court “declaration” that HDMI Licensing “is precluded” from notifying customs that ADB goods “are unauthorized and subject to seizure because they are not.” ADB has argued it has dutifully paid HDMI Licensing the 4 cent-per-unit royalty it owed, but that the licensor is wrongfully demanding 10 cents per unit more on the grounds -- denied by ADB -- that ADB failed to “reasonably” incorporate HDMI trademarks on its product documentation materials. If HDMI Licensing isn't “enjoined” from canceling the license agreement and calling for customs seizures of ADB shipments, ADB “will suffer immediate irreparable harm as it will no longer be able to represent to its customers that it supplies licensed products,” its injunction motion said. “The inability to do so will severely harm the reputation of ADB and the goodwill it has established in the U.S. market and its industry worldwide.” ADB also fears the jobs of its 50 U.S. employees will be “at risk,” it said. HDMI Licensing representatives have declined comment on the case.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on multilatyered wood flooring from China (C-570-971) (here). These final results will be used to set final assessments of CV duties on importers for subject merchandise entered in 2012 from the nearly 90 companies under review.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review and a concurrent new shipper review on multilayered wood flooring from China (A-570-970) (here). The new rates will be used to set assessments of AD duties for subject merchandise exported by nearly 100 Chinese companies under review that was entered between December 2012 and November 2013.