The Commerce Department released notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on sol gel alumina-based ceramic abrasive grains from China (A-570-190/C-570-191). The CVD investigation covers entries Jan. 1, 2023, through Dec. 31, 2023. The AD investigation covers entries April 1, 2024, through Sept. 30, 2024.
The Commerce Department soon will suspend liquidation and impose antidumping duty cash deposit requirements on imports of vanillin from China, it said in a fact sheet issued Jan. 10. Commerce set AD rates ranging from 186.15% to 379.82% for Chinese exporters, it announced in its preliminary determinations in its ongoing AD investigations. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after the date of publication of the preliminary determinations in the Federal Register, which should occur in the coming days. Commerce also is conducting a concurrent countervailing duty investigation on vanillin from China (see 2411150040).
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Jan. 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 CBP's ADCVD Search page.
DirecTV joined EchoStar in asking a federal court not to lift the preliminary injunction put on the Venu sports streaming joint venture of Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery. Plaintiff FuboTV settling with Disney "does nothing to resolve the underlying antitrust violations at issue" with Venu, DirectTV wrote U.S. District Court for Southern New York Judge Margaret Garnett on Thursday (docket 24-cv-1363). EchoStar made a similar argument with the court this week (see 250108002).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Jan. 10 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 and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Jan. 10 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Considering the antitrust concerns raised by the proposed Venu sports streaming joint venture, Dish Network parent EchoStar is urging a federal court not to drop the temporary injunction against it. In a Jan. 7 letter to Judge Margaret Garnett of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, EchoStar said that defendant Disney's agreement with plaintiff Fubo is the equivalent of purchasing its "way out of their antitrust violation." EchoStar added, "But the Court’s decisions have correctly found harm that sweeps past the Plaintiff to the consuming public, independent programmers, and distributors" such as Dish. The preliminary injunction Garnett granted in August (see 2408160040) stopped the plan by defendants Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery "to monopolize the pay-TV market and ... charge inflated prices to millions of Americans," EchoStar said. Fubo and the defendants asked the court this week to lift the preliminary injunction in light of the Disney-Fubo settlement (see 2501070040). The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday, in docket 24-2210, dismissed an appeal challenging the preliminary injunction (see 2412020006).
Transport companies lack legitimate interest under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in requiring customers to indicate their title before purchasing train tickets, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) held in a preliminary ruling Thursday.
FuboTV's merger with Disney's Hulu+ Live TV will mean two major players in the virtual multichannel video programming distribution landscape -- New YouTube TV and the New Fubo entity -- with an array of much smaller services following in their wake, Ampere Analysis' Andrew Dougert wrote Tuesday. Announced Monday (see 2501060003), the merger could take up to 18 months to close, he said. By then, YouTube TV will likely have around 10.5 million subscribers, while Fubo and Hulu+ Live TV are expected to collectively have nearly 6.4 million, he said. Behind them, EchoStar's Sling TV currently has a little more than 2 million subscribers. The Fubo/Hulu deal has Fubo dropping its litigation seeking to block the Disney/Fox/Warner Bros. Discovery sports streaming joint venture Venu. The parties on Monday filed a stipulation of voluntary dismissal (docket 1:24-cv-01363) with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, asking that the preliminary injunction against Venu (see 2408160040) be lifted.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Jan. 8 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):