The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Oct. 9 on AD/CVD proceedings:
China will impose temporary antidumping duties on imports of brandy from the EU after preliminary findings showed the imports are threatening its domestic industry, according to an unofficial translation of an Oct. 8 Ministry of Commerce notice. Beginning Oct. 11, Importers of EU brandy must pay security deposits ranging from 30.6% to 39%, state-run news agency Xinhua reported. The announcement came less than a week after EU member states voted to approve new countervailing duties on Chinese electric vehicles (see 2410040013).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Oct. 9 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 published notices in the Federal Register Oct. 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):
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of a countervailing duty administrative review on oil country tubular goods from Turkey (C-489-817). The agency preliminarily assigned a 1.01% CVD rate to Borusan Mannesmann Boru Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S., and a 1.55% CVD rate to Cayirova Boru Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. If the agency's findings are continued in the final results of these reviews, importers of subject merchandise from Borusan and Cayirova entered Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022, will be assessed CVD at importer-specific rates. Any changes to rates for the two companies would take effect on the date of publication in the Federal Register of the final results of this review, currently due in February.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on heavy walled rectangular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from South Korea (A-580-880). The agency preliminarily calculated an AD rate for the one company remaining under review, HiSteel Co., Ltd., of zero percent, for the review period Sept. 1, 2022, through Aug. 31, 2023.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Oct. 8 on AD/CVD proceedings:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Oct. 7, 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.
Texas sued TikTok for allegedly violating the state’s new social media parental-consent law. The social media platform shared minors’ personal data in violation of the state’s social media age-restriction law (HB-18), Texas said in a complaint at the Texas District Court in Galveston County (case 24-CV-1763). “Texas law requires social media companies to take steps to protect kids online and requires them to provide parents with tools to do the same,” said Ken Paxton (R), the Texas attorney general. The complaint claims that TikTok failed to provide those tools and develop a commercially reasonable parental-consent mechanism. In addition, Texas alleged that TikTok shared and disclosed minors’ personal identifying information without parental consent. Paxton sought injunctive relief and civil penalties of up to $10,000 per violation. A TikTok spokesperson said, “We strongly disagree with these allegations and, in fact, we offer robust safeguards for teens and parents, including Family Pairing, all of which are publicly available. We stand by the protections we provide families.” The lawsuit comes roughly one month after the U.S. District Court of Western Texas granted a preliminary injunction (see 2409030039) against the 2024 law in a case that tech industry groups NetChoice and the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) brought. However, TikTok is not a member of NetChoice or CCIA. “The injunction granted by Judge [Robert] Pitman of the Western District of Texas bars the state from enforcing particular provisions of [HB-18] only as to CCIA, NetChoice, and their members,” said Stephanie Joyce, CCIA chief of staff.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals should affirm a lower court’s decision that blocks Mississippi’s social media age-verification law because it violates the First Amendment, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Chamber of Progress and other groups argued in filings Thursday (docket 24-60341). The amici filed in support of NetChoice, which won a preliminary injunction against the law from the U.S. District Court for Southern Mississippi on July 1 (see 2407160038). The ACLU and EFF filed a joint brief, arguing that online age verification blocks access to protected speech for millions of adults who lack proof of identification. Users have a right to be anonymous online, and age-verification requirements force people to put sensitive data at risk of inadvertent disclosure in data breaches, they said. Chamber of Progress filed with LGBT Tech, the Woodhull Freedom Foundation and the Coalition for Responsible Home Education. Minors don’t “shed their First Amendment rights at the gateway to the internet,” they said: Their participation in the “marketplace of ideas,” which includes unpopular ideas, is “essential to a functioning democracy.” The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression argued that legal precedent requires government to show there isn’t a “less restrictive alternative” to achieving its objective, and Mississippi hasn’t shown the new law is the “least restrictive means of addressing concerns about young peoples’ use of social media.”