The Commerce Department issued an antidumping duty order on drawn stainless steel sinks from China (A-570-983). The agency said it left out a producer-exporter combination rate from the final determination, so it amended the final determination rates to add the omitted AD rate. The order details a "gap period" of April 3-9 of no AD duty liability due to the expiration of the provisional measures period.
Advanced Technology & Materials appealed a March 28 Court of International Trade order granting a preliminary injunction preventing liquidation of entries of diamond sawblades from China that it produced and exported (see 13032902). The entries had been subject to litigation over whether the company should have received a separate rate in the antidumping duty investigation on diamond sawblades from China, but the Commerce Department announced its intent to revoke the AD duty order for AT&M to implement a World Trade Organization ruling against the agency’s use of zeroing. The preliminary injunction prevented liquidation of entries of diamond sawblades from China produced and exported by AT&M, but did not prevent revocation for the company.
The International Trade Administration published notices in the April 9 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 International Trade Administration issued the preliminary results of the countervailing duty administrative review on circular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Turkey (C-489-502). The preliminary CV rates for all three companies under review were found to be de minimis. If the ITA continues to find zero CV rates for these companies in the final results, it will instruct CBP to liquidate entries of the company's subject merchandise during the period of review without regard to AD duties. These CV rates are not in effect. The ITA may modify them in the final results of this review and change the estimated CV cash deposit rate for these companies.
The International Trade Administration issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on circular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Thailand (A-549-502). The ITA calculated a preliminary zero AD rate for Saha Thai Steel Pipe (Public) Company, and said Pacific Pipe Company, the other respondent, had no reviewable shipments. If the ITA continues to find a zero AD rate for Saha Thai in the final results, it will instruct CBP to liquidate entries of the company's subject merchandise during the period of review without regard to AD duties. These preliminary results are not in effect. The ITA may modify them in the final results of this review and change the estimated AD cash deposit rate for these companies.
The International Trade Administration issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review of steel threaded rod from China (A-570-932). The ITA preliminarily denied the RMB/IFI Group's request for partial revocation, because the company has not been assigned three consecutive zero rates -- the ITA calculated a positive AD rate for the company in the final results of the previous administrative review. These preliminary results are not in effect. The ITA may modify them in the final results of this review and change the estimated AD cash deposit rate for these companies.
The Wind Tower Trade Coalition appealed the Court of International Trade’s denial of an injunction preventing liquidation of entries made during the “provisional measures” period between the preliminary determination and antidumping and countervailing duty orders in the investigations of utility scale wind towers from China and Vietnam. The court had ruled March 29 that a previous CIT case had decided the issue of how to interpret the International Trade Commission’s vote pattern in its injury determination, and so the coalition would have had a difficult time proving the ITA improperly ordered liquidation of the entries (see 13040132).
LAS VEGAS -- That News Corp. would consider making Fox a pay-TV network if Aereo is legally able to deliver that and other broadcast network stations’ signals to subscribers without paying retransmission consent caught some NAB attendees by surprise. “We're not going to sit idly by” with the upstart online service able to transmit stations to Aereo subscribers, News Corp. Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey said in a Q-and-A with NAB CEO Gordon Smith. “Clearly there’s a path available to us, that’s a business solution available to us, if we can’t get our rights protected in another way.” Making Fox a cable network isn’t Carey’s preference, he said Monday at the NAB show.
LAS VEGAS -- That News Corp. would consider making Fox a pay-TV network if Aereo is legally able to deliver that and other broadcast network stations’ signals to subscribers without paying retransmission consent caught some NAB attendees by surprise. “We're not going to sit idly by” with the upstart online service able to transmit stations to Aereo subscribers, News Corp. Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey said in a Q-and-A with NAB CEO Gordon Smith. “Clearly there’s a path available to us, that’s a business solution available to us, if we can’t get our rights protected in another way.” Making Fox a cable network isn’t Carey’s preference, he said Monday at the NAB show.
The International Trade Administration issued a final rule establishing time limits for specific types of submissions of factual information in antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings. The rule amends definitions in the ITA’s regulations to define the specific types of factual information the agency accepts in AD/CVD proceedings, and establishes time limits for each specific type of actual information. The final rule also changes current time limits for some kinds of factual information.