The Commerce Department will require cash deposits of estimated countervailing duties on imports of grain-oriented electrical steel (GOES) from China (C-570-995) it said in a March 5 fact sheet announcing its preliminary determination. The agency set CV duty cash deposit rates at 49.15% for all Chinese exporters. Cash deposit requirements will take effect upon publication of the preliminary determination. ITT will have details when it is published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department will require cash deposits of estimated countervailing duties on monosodium glutamate from China, but will not yet require cash deposits on Indonesian MSG, it said in a March 5 fact sheet announcing its preliminary CV duty determinations. For China, Commerce set CV duty cash deposit rates at 13.41% to 404.03%, depending on the exporter, beginning on the date Commerce publishes its affirmative preliminary determination. But Commerce's negative preliminary determination for Indonesia means imports from that country will avoid cash deposit requirements for the time being. Commerce's antidumping duty preliminary determinations are due in early May, at which time Commerce may suspend liquidation and require AD duty cash deposits. The agency's final decision on CV duties is also due in May. ITT will provide more details on Commerce's preliminary determinations once they are published in the Federal Register.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website March 5, 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 addcvd.cbp.gov. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website March 4, 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 addcvd.cbp.gov. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)
The Commerce Department published notices in the March 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 issued the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on pasta from Italy (C-475-819). The agency made slight changes from its preliminary results, but continued to find de minimis CV rates for Delverde and Valdigrano. As a result, period of review entries exported by Delverde and Valdigrano will be liquidated without regard to CV duties, and no CV duty cash deposit will be required on future entries from these companies until further notice. These rates are effective March 4, and will be implemented by CBP soon.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on preserved mushrooms from China (A-570-851). Commerce said that Blue Field did not cooperate during the review, so it assigned the company to the China-wide entity as punishment. The agency also found the two other companies under review, Xiamen International Trade & Industrial Co., Ltd. (XITIC) and Zhangzhou Hongda Import & Export Trading Co., Ltd., had no exports of subject merchandise to U.S. during the period of review, so future entries from these two companies will be subject to AD cash deposit rates set in previous reviews. The new rates are effective March 4, and will be implemented by CBP soon.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling in Garcia v. Google was “troubling” and could have “lasting repercussions for online free expression,” said Andrew McDiarmid, Center for Democracy and Technology senior policy analyst, in a blog post Thursday (http://bit.ly/NCDCdS). The court ordered a preliminary injunction against Google to remove all copies of the inflammatory Innocence of Muslims video from Google-owned YouTube and to take “reasonable steps” to prevent future uploads, after Cindy Lee Garcia began receiving death threats for her minor role in the short film (WID Feb 28 p1). “The plaintiff 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 case summary (1.usa.gov/1hV5Dvg). The ruling’s “precedent” is “incredibly worrisome,” because “anyone who contributes creative expression to a larger copyrighted work potentially may have an independent copyright claim against the work’s distribution and performance,” said McDiarmid in the blog post. “We urge the court to reconsider and withdraw this flawed opinion that jeopardizes freedom of expression online and the innovative platforms that support it,” he said.
Mexico's Diario Oficial of Feb. 27-28 lists notices from the Secretary of the Economy and Secretary of Finance as follows:
The Commerce Department found Gallant Dachan Seafood is the successor to Gallant Ocean (Quang Ngai) for the purposes of antidumping duty liability under the order on frozen warmwater shrimp from Vietnam (A-552-802), making Dachan eligible for the zero AD duty rate currently assigned Quang Ngai. Commerce made no changes from the preliminary results in the changed circumstances review (see 14010912), continuing to find the company underwent a simple name change. Quang Ngai was one of many companies assigned a zero rate in the final results of the most recently completed administrative review on shrimp from Vietnam (see 13091122).