A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Sept. 19, 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 Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Sept. 19 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 final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on hydrofluorocarbon blends from China (A-570-028). The agency said that none of the respondents subject to the final results of the review demonstrated independence from state control, and therefore were assigned to the China-wide entity, with a rate of 216.37%.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Sept. 19 on AD/CVD proceedings:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Sept. 18, 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 Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Sept. 18 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 published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on frozen fish fillets from Vietnam (A-552-801). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise from the companies remaining under review entered August 2022 through July 2023.
A Texas anti-porn law violates the First Amendment by requiring websites to verify users’ ages, the Free Speech Coalition said at the U.S. Supreme Court. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a brief Monday on behalf of the FSC, a pornography industry trade association. The U.S. District Court in Austin agreed in August 2023 to block the law (HB-1181), one day before its Sept. 1 effective date. U.S. District Court Judge David Ezra found the law likely violates the First Amendment rights of adults trying to access constitutionally protected speech. But the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals partially vacated the injunction, finding the age-verification requirements constitutional. SCOTUS in July agreed to hear the case, Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton (docket 23-1122) (see 2407020033). “Under strict scrutiny, this is a straightforward case,” said the coalition’s brief: The Texas law “is both overinclusive and underinclusive, and it fails to pursue its objective with the means least restrictive of adults’ protected speech.” The coalition added, “Restoring the preliminary injunction … would not undermine genuine efforts to limit minors’ access to sexually inappropriate material.” Adults “have a First Amendment right to read about sexual health, see R-rated movies, watch porn, and otherwise access information about sex if they want to," said Vera Eidelman, ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project staff attorney. “They should be allowed to exercise that right as they see fit, without having to worry about exposing their personal identifying information in the process.”
The Commerce Department intends to end antidumping duties on barium chloride from China (A-570-007) and countervailing duties on the same product from India C-533-909), it said a notice announcing the initiation and preliminary results of a changed circumstances review. Honeywell requested the review with no objection from the original petitioner in the case, Chemical Products Corporation, which is "ceasing" domestic production of barium chloride. If Commerce decides to revoke the order in the final results of its changed circumstances review, revocation of each order will take effect beginning "on or after the day following the last day of the period covered by the most recently completed administrative review of the Orders."
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Sept. 18 on AD/CVD proceedings: