The Commerce Department released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on cold-drawn mechanical tubing of carbon and alloy steel from India (A-533-873). Rates calculated in this review will be used to set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise that was entered June 1, 2022, through May 31, 2023.
The Commerce Department issued its final determination in its countervailing duty investigation on pea protein from China (C-570-155). Suspension of liquidation is currently not in effect for entries on or after April 16, 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 has released its final determination in the antidumping duty investigation on pea protein from China (A-570-154). Cash deposit rates set in this final determination take effect July 5.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website July 2, 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 July 2 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 notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on vanillin from China (A-570-172/C-570-173). The CVD investigation covers entries Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2023. The AD investigation covers entries Oct. 1, 2023 - March 31, 2024.
The Commerce Department is setting new countervailing duty cash deposit requirements for imports of paper plates from China (C-570-165) and Vietnam (C-552-840), after finding countervailable subsidization of producers and exporters in the two countries in the preliminary determinations of its CV duty investigations. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements would generally take effect for entries on or after July 1, the date that the preliminary determinations were published in the Federal Register, but Commerce is making the suspension of liquidation and CV duty cash deposits retroactive to approximately April 2 for most Chinese and Vietnamese companies.
Suspension of liquidation and antidumping and countervailing duty cash deposit requirements took effect June 28 for imports of ferrosilicon from Russia (A-821-838/C-821-839), after the Commerce Department made affirmative preliminary determinations in its ongoing AD/CVD investigations.
Meta's "pay or consent" advertising model violates the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the European Commission said Monday in preliminary findings. The commission found that the binary choice forces Facebook and Instagram users to consent to having their personal data combined across Meta's social media and advertising services without giving them a less personalized but equivalent version of its social network. Meta introduced its pay or consent approach in November to comply with the DMA but the EC found that the model breaches the law's Article 5 (2). The DMA doesn't say that personal data accumulation is illegal but that consumers should have a real choice about what data is accumulated across gatekeepers' services, EC officials said. The law doesn't require that Meta offer an ad-free service, but there must be a middle ground between consenting to the combination of personal data accumulation and combination across services or paying a subscription for ad-free services, it said. Meta was designated as a gatekeeper in September. A company is a gatekeeper when it derives a specified annual revenue in the European Economic Area and offers a platform in at least three EU countries; offers a core platform for more than 45 million monthly active end users located in the EU, and more than 10,000 yearly active business users established in the EU; and if it met the second criterion for the past three years (see 2309060002). Asked whether other companies that use the pay or consent model should consider the preliminary findings a warning, officials stressed the DMA covers gatekeepers only and the commission's findings don't set out a general principle on pay or consent for those enterprises that aren't gatekeepers. "Subscription for no ads follows the direction of the highest court in Europe and complies with the DMA," a Meta spokesperson emailed, adding the company will continue working with the EC to resolve the investigation. The enforcement action "comes on top of the complaints against Meta's model for breaches of consumer law and data protection law which consumer organizations have raised" recently, the European Consumer Organisation said: "We now urge Meta to comply with laws meant to protect consumers."
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices July 2 on AD/CVD proceedings: