The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Aug. 20 on AD/CVD proceedings:
CBP has found evidence supporting a "reasonable suspicion" that Louisville, Kentucky-based AXN Heavy Duty LLC evaded antidumping and countervailing duties when it imported chassis and subassemblies from China, and is suspending liquidation and setting cash deposit requirements for goods from the company.
Antidumping and countervailing duties on solar cells from Thailand and Vietnam could take retroactive effect for entries back to June 2024, under a critical circumstances request filed Aug. 15 by the American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing Trade Committee as part of the Commerce Department’s ongoing AD/CVD investigations on solar cells from the two countries (A-549-851/C-549-852, A-552-841/C-552-842).
Provisions in California’s age-appropriate social media design law likely violate the First Amendment, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday in a victory for NetChoice (docket 23-2969) (see 2407170046). A three-judge panel found the Age-Appropriate Design Code Act’s (AB-2273) impact assessment requirement likely violates the First Amendment because it requires that platforms make judgments about what online content could harm children. The ruling, issued by Judge Milan Smith, affirms a district court decision enjoining enforcement of the law’s Data Protection Impact Assessment requirement. However, the court remanded the case back to the district court for further consideration on other aspects of the law. It’s “unclear from the record” whether other challenged provisions “facially violate the First Amendment,” or the unconstitutional aspects can be separated from valid provisions of the law, the court said. NetChoice is “likely to succeed” in showing that the law’s requirement that “covered businesses opine on and mitigate the risk that children may be exposed to harmful or potentially harmful materials online facially violates the First Amendment,” Smith wrote. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in September granted NetChoice's request for a preliminary injunction. The lower court ruled the state has “no right to enforce obligations that would essentially press private companies into service as government censors, thus violating the First Amendment by proxy.” California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) appealed. NetChoice Litigation Center Director Chris Marchese called the decision a victory for free expression: “The court recognized that California’s government cannot commandeer private businesses to censor lawful content online or to restrict access to it.” Bonta’s office didn’t comment Friday.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Aug. 16, 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.
FuboTV will likely succeed in proving that the planned ESPN/Warner Bros. Discovery/Fox Sports streaming joint venture will violate federal antitrust law, a federal judge ruled Friday as she granted plaintiff Fubo a preliminary injunction to block it. The sports streaming JV, Venu, has raised anticompetitive concerns on the part of some federal lawmakers (see 2404170067).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Aug. 16 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 final results of the antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on forged steel fluid end blocks from Italy (A-475-840/C-475-841). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD/CVD on importers for subject merchandise entered Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on forged steel fluid end blocks from Germany (A-428-847). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers of subject merchandise entered during calendar year 2022.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on softwood lumber products from Canada (A-122-857/C-122-858). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD/CVD on importers for subject merchandise entered Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022.