The Commerce Department published notices in the July 14 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 issued the preliminary results of a changed circumstances review of the antidumping duty order on lined paper products from India (A-533-843), preliminarily finding Kokuyo Riddhi Paper Products Private Limited is the successor to Riddhi Enterprises for the purposes of AD duty liability. Commerce preliminarily found the company's operations were transferred from Riddhi to Kokuyo Riddhi, and its business was otherwise unaffected. If Commerce affirms its finding in the final results of this changed circumstances review, Kokuyo Riddhi will inherit Riddhi's current zero percent AD duty rate.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld its previous ruling in Garcia v. Google, in an amended decision (http://bit.ly/1orbQw5) filed Friday. Several parties, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), asked that the 9th Circuit revisit the case after it found that actress Cindy Lee Garcia “established a likelihood of success” for the “infringement of her performance within the film because she proved that she likely had an independent interest in the performance and that the filmmaker did not own an interest as a work for hire and exceeded any implied license to use the plaintiff’s performance,” wrote the court, in its February case summary (1.usa.gov/1hV5Dvg) (WID March 3 p16). The court ordered a preliminary injunction against Google in February to remove all copies of the inflammatory Innocence of Muslims film from Google-owned YouTube and to take “reasonable steps” to prevent future uploads, after Garcia began receiving death threats for her minor role in the short film (WID Feb 28 p1). “Google hasn’t raised fair use as a defense in this appeal,” and “so we do not consider it in determining its likelihood of success,” said Chief Judge Alex Kozinski in the 2-1 decision Friday. “This does not, of course, preclude Google from raising the point in the district court, provided it properly preserved the defense in its pleadings,” he said. “The amended opinion does not address our most basic concern: that the court applied the wrong standard altogether,” said Corynne McSherry, EFF intellectual property director, in a blog post (http://bit.ly/1wc0MHA) Friday. “The takedown order was a mandatory preliminary injunction, which should never occur unless the law and the facts clearly favor the person asking for it,” she said.
The Commerce Department issued its final affirmative countervailing duty determination on steel threaded rod from India (C-533-856). Although this final determination takes effect July 14, Commerce will only require CV cash deposits of estimated CV duties on future entries if it issues a CV order.
The Commerce Department issued its final determination in the antidumping duty investigation on steel threaded rod from India (A-533-855). The agency increased duty rates across the board, and continued to apply retroactive suspension of liquidation for Babu Exports. The final determination is effective July 14
Antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on steel nails from India and Turkey are set to end, after the International Trade Commission on July 11 voted in its preliminary injury determinations that imports from the two countries are too small to warrant duties. But AD/CV duty investigations on steel nails from South Korea, Malaysia, Oman, Taiwan, and Vietnam will continue after the ITC unanimously voted that there is a “reasonable indication” that dumped and subsidized imports from the countries are injuring U.S. industry.
The Commerce Department will suspend liquidation and require antidumping duty cash deposits on imports of oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from South Korea, reversing course in a final determination announced July 11. The agency also announced its final determinations of dumped imports of OCTG from India, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine and Vietnam, and its findings of illegal subsidization of OCTG imports from India and, in another reversal, Turkey. Commerce had originally found no dumping of OCTG from South Korea and no illegal subsidization of OCTG from Turkey in its preliminary determinations.
The Commerce Department published notices in the July 11 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):
CBP has ramped up its outreach efforts to lay out the agency's plans to update Focused Assessment (FA) rules, said customs firm Tuttle Law Offices in an emailed description of CBP's work. Among the proposed changes are a more comprehensive questionnaire and some tinkering in how the agency decides on the number of sample transactions CBP would examine, said the email. The description follows a recent presentation from Elizabeth Chiavetta, director, Audit Policy and Mel Moreland, acting executive director, Regulatory Audit at CBP, said Tuttle.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the July 10 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):