The International Trade Administration has finalized its 2009 calculations of expected non-market economy (NME) wages for use as the surrogate value for direct labor in antidumping proceedings involving NME countries.
The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of an antidumping duty changed circumstances review of ball bearings and parts thereof from France.
No “constitutional injuries” to CE companies can be assessed until after manufacturers and New York City “come together over specific plans” for collecting and recycling e- waste, said the New York State Association for Solid Waste Management and other groups, in an amicus brief filed Dec. 1 and posted Tuesday that backs the city in its legal fight against CEA and the ITI Council. The court can’t evaluate makers’ claims that New York City’s e-waste program and its direct collection requirement will cause them irreparable harm “before some practical plan for collection and recovery has been presented and either approved or rejected by the city,” said the brief, which was signed by five others, including the governments of San Francisco and Portland, Ore. “The doctrine of constitutional avoidance requires the courts to refrain upon ruling upon questions of constitutional law when such rulings can be avoided, or narrowed through an administrative process,” it said. CE makers filed their lawsuit July 24, days before they were required to file elaborate e-waste collection plans with the city. If the court sides with the city and turns down CE makers’ request for a preliminary injunction, the city has agreed not to require the collection plans to be filed for 30 days after the ruling. Under the city’s e-waste law, the submission of e-waste collection and recycling plans, “and the reaction of city officials to those submitted plans, will identify the precise constitutional issues requiring resolution, if any such issues remain,” the brief said. “A ruling by this court that prevents that process from occurring will address constitutional issues that may not ultimately require resolution, and will almost certainly require a broader ruling than the developed facts will ultimately require.”
The International Trade Administration has issued a notice that it is postponing the preliminary determination in the countervailing duty investigation of certain coated paper suitable for high-quality print graphics using sheet-fed presses from China.
The International Trade Administration has issued its preliminary results of the following antidumping duty administrative reviews:
CE makers’ claims that New York City’s e-waste program will cause them “irreparable harm” and cost them more than $200 million a year to comply with “stand unrebutted,” CEA and the ITI Council said Friday in the latest filing in their lawsuit that asks the U.S. District Court, Manhattan, for a preliminary injunction to prevent the program from taking effect.
On December 7, 2009, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano and Mexican Secretary of Finance and Public Credit Carstens signed an updated and enhanced Declaration of Principles accomplishing the goals they outlined in June to create a joint U.S.-Mexico framework to improve security along the Southwest border and facilitate the flow of legitimate travel and trade. (Press release, including link to Declaration, available at http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_1260207066445.shtm.)
The International Trade Administration has made a final affirmative countervailing duty determination that countervailable subsidies are being provided to producers and exporters of certain oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from China.
CBP has posted an additional presentation for the annual trade symposium. CBP posted the Importer Security Filing/10+2 breakout session presentation. (See ITT's Online Archives or 12/02/09 news, 09120205, for BP summary CBP posting presentations for the general session on 10+2 and all other breakout sessions, etc.) (Presentation, posted 12/03/09, available at http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/trade/trade_outreach/presentations09/isf_10_2.ctt/isf_10_2.pdf)
The International Trade Administration has issued the final results of its antidumping duty administrative review of polyethylene retail carrier bags from China for the period of August 1, 2007 through July 31, 2008.