The Commerce Department issued a Federal Register notice on its recently initiated antidumping duty investigation on large top mount combination refrigerator-freezers from Thailand (A-549-853). The agency will determine whether imports of Thai refrigrator-freezers are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The investigation covers entries from Thailand during the period April 1, 2023, through March 31, 2024.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on steel nails from Taiwan (A-583-854). Rates calculated in this review will be used to set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise from 23 exporters remaining in the review that was entered July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023.
The Commerce Department issued antidumping duty orders on mattresses from Bosnia and Herzegovina (A-893-002), Bulgaria (A-487-001), Myanmar (formerly Burma) (A-546-001), Italy (A-475-845), the Philippines (A-565-804), Poland (A-455-807), Slovenia (A-856-002) and Taiwan (A-583-873). The orders detail a “gap period” of June 29 - July 4, 2024, of no AD duty liability.
The Commerce Department issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on low-speed personal transportation vehicles from China (A-570-176/C-570-177). The CVD investigation covers entries Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2023. The AD investigation covers entries Oct. 1, 2023 - March 31, 2024.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices July 16 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Court of International Trade in a confidential July 15 order denied customs broker Seko Customs Brokerage's application for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against CBP's temporary suspension of the company from the Entry Type 86 pilot and the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism program. Judge Claire Kelly said she intends to issue a public version of the opinion "on or shortly after" July 23, giving the litigants until July 22 to review the confidential information in the decision (Seko Customs Brokerage v. U.S., CIT # 24-00097).
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A California rulemaking on modernizing carrier of last resort rules could inspire similar proceedings elsewhere, state and industry officials signaled at the NARUC conference Monday. The California Public Utilities Commission last month opened a rulemaking that took a fresh look at COLR rules after rejecting regulatory relief for AT&T (see 2406200065).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register July 15 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):
X is violating the Digital Services Act (DSA) in areas linked to dark patterns, advertising transparency and data access for researchers, the European Commission said Friday. These are the first preliminary findings issued under the DSA. They follow a separate pending investigation launched in December on different issues, EC officials said at a briefing. X didn't immediately comment. Officials voiced concerns about three aspects of X's setup. One is the interface for "verified" accounts with a "blue checkmark." The EC believes the checkmarks mislead users into thinking accounts and content they're seeing are trustworthy and reliable. But when EC researchers looked at reply feeds on particular posts, they found that X prioritizes content from blue checkmark accounts. This breaches DSA rules against dark patterns - defined as interfaces and user experiences on social media platforms that cause users to make unintended, unwilling and potentially harmful decisions about processing of their personal data -- because anyone can obtain such "verified" status simply by paying for it. That prevents users from making informed decisions about the authenticity of the accounts and content they're seeing. The EC's second "grievance" arises from X's failure to maintain a searchable, publicly available advertisement repository that would allow researchers to inspect and supervise tweets to track emerging risks from online ads, officials said. X formerly gave researchers such access, but Elon Musk rescinded it. The repository is a key obligation under the DSA because it allows anyone to search for an ad on the platform to find out who placed it and what its targeting criteria are, officials said. The third item concerns the lack of a process for giving researchers access to X's public data for scraping, and its procedure for allowing qualified researchers to access its application programming interfaces is too slow and complex, officials said. This falls well below DSA requirements that third parties be able to inspect what's happening on the platform, they said. If the findings are confirmed, X could be fined up to 6% of its total worldwide annual revenue and ordered to remedy the breaches, the EC added. The DSA designated X a very large online platform in April 2023 after it declared it reached more than 45 million monthly active users in the EU, the EC noted.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices July 15 on AD/CVD proceedings: