Mississippi’s social media age-verification law doesn’t violate the First Amendment because it regulates online conduct, not speech, Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch (R) argued Thursday before the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (docket 24-60341) (see 2409260053). NetChoice won a preliminary injunction against the law from the U.S. District Court for Southern Mississippi in July (see [Ref:2407160038). Fitch is appealing to lift the injunction. Mississippi argued Thursday that the district court failed to fully review all applications of HB-1126 through a “demanding facial analysis.” The new law requires “commercially reasonable” efforts on age verification, parental consent and harm-mitigation strategies, said Fitch in her reply brief: “Those requirements pose no facial First Amendment problem.” She argued the law applies to interactive functions on platforms and harmful conduct. “That focus does not regulate speech.”
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on carbon and alloy steel wire rod from South Korea (A-580-891). Commerce made some changes to the calculations it used in its preliminary results, and arrived at a 0.85% AD rate for POSCO and its affiliated company POSCO International Corp., the only company under review, lower than the preliminary 1.03% AD rate.
The Commerce Department will consider a potential new exemption from antidumping and countervailing duties for certain small, low-wattage, off-grid solar cells attached to an aluminum extrusion, it said in a trio of notices initiating changed circumstances reviews.
A domestic trade group for catfish farmers brought a motion for judgment Oct. 15 before the Court of International Trade arguing that the Commerce Department should have at least applied partial adverse facts available to a mandatory respondent in its 2020-21 review of frozen fish fillets from Vietnam (Catfish Farmers of America v. U.S., CIT # 24-00082).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Oct. 17 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 looks set to recognize the name change of a South Korean company for the purposes of antidumping duties on various pipe products (large diameter welded pipe, A-580-897; circular welded non-alloy steel pipe, A-580-809; and welded line pipe, A-580-876) and oil country tubular goods (OCTG) (A-580-870) from South Korea. The agency preliminarily found that Hyundai Steel Pipe Co., Ltd. is the successor-in-interest to Hyundai Steel Company, in the preliminary results of a changed circumstances review. The agency preliminarily found HSP continues to operate as the same business entity as Hyundai Steel. If Commerce confirms its finding in the final results, HSP may inherit the AD rate assigned to Hyundai Steel in the AD review.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on new pneumatic off-the-road tires from India (A-533-869). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered March 1, 2022, through Feb. 28, 2023.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Oct. 17 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on non-refillable steel cylinders from China (A-570-126). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers for subject merchandise entered May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2023.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Oct. 16 on AD/CVD proceedings: