A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Sept. 27, 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.
The Court of International Trade on Sept. 26 ordered the Commerce Department to add exporter The Ancientree Cabinet Co.'s ministerial error allegation to the record of a suit on the 2021-22 review of the antidumping duty order on wooden cabinets and vanities from China. Judge Mark Barnett gave Commerce until Oct. 7 to add the allegation to the record (The Ancientree Cabinet Co. v. U.S., CIT # 23-00262).
Texas-based syringe importer Retractable Technologies took to the Court of International Trade to contest the 100% increase of Section 301 tariffs recently imposed on needles and syringes from China. The complaint is seeking a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction against the duties, claiming that the tariffs could send the company out of business (Retractable Technologies v. United States, CIT # 24-00185).
Mississippi’s social media age-verification law is unconstitutional because it places a “government-mandated” barrier blocking access to protected speech, NetChoice argued Thursday before the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (see 2408010054). HB-1126 disfavors social speech in relation to professional speech and media-driven speech, the trade association said. NetChoice won a preliminary injunction against the law from the U.S. District Court for Southern Mississippi on July 1 (see 2407160038), and Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch (R) appealed.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals should reverse a district court injunction against a Georgia anti-retail-theft law because the tech industry failed to show federal law preempts the measure, Georgia Attorney General Christopher Carr (R) argued Wednesday (docket 24-12273). Gov. Brian Kemp (R) signed the Combating Organized Retail Crime Act (Act 564) May 6. It requires that e-commerce platforms like Facebook Marketplace and Craigslist verify information about high-volume sellers to prevent online sales of stolen goods, with a specific focus on under-the-radar cash transactions. U.S. District Judge Steven Grimberg in July granted NetChoice’s request for preliminary injunction. Grimberg found the Inform Consumers Act, a 2023 federal law that imposes similar verification requirements on high-volume sellers, preempts Act 564. The state measure conflicts with the federal law’s language limiting its applications to transactions that “only” take place through the online marketplace in question, the judge found. Carr argued NetChoice can’t show that it’s impossible for companies to comply with both the federal and state laws. The Georgia law “slightly differs” from the federal law when it broadens the category of “discrete sales.” Georgia’s “slightly broader monitoring obligations go beyond federal regulation, not against federal regulation,” he argued. “They are complementary, there is no conflict.” NetChoice said in July that Act 564 “violates federal law and the Supremacy Clause, smothering Georgia’s thriving businesses with red tape.”
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Sept. 27 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 its final determination in its countervailing duty investigation on aluminum lithographic printing plates from China (C-570-157). Suspension of liquidation is currently not in effect for entries on or after June 29, 2024, and Commerce will require cash deposits of estimated CV duties on future entries only if it issues a CV duty order.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Sept. 27 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals should lift a district court injunction against Texas’ social media law and remand the case to assess the tech industry’s First Amendment challenge at a more granular level, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) argued Wednesday (docket 21-51178).
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Sept. 26, 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.