The Commerce Department soon will suspend liquidation and impose countervailing duty cash deposit requirements on imports of pea protein from China, it said in a fact sheet issued Dec. 12. Commerce set CVD rates ranging from 15.09% to 342.53% for all Chinese exporters, the agency said as it announced its preliminary determinations in its ongoing CVD investigations. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after the date of publication of the preliminary determinations in the Federal Register, which should occur in the coming days.
Arkansas believes that discovery will show the methods NetChoice claims its members use to protect children from social media harms are “ineffective,” said Attorney General Tim Griffin’s (R) supplemental brief Friday (docket 5:23-cv-05105). The filing at the U.S. District Court for Western Arkansas in Fayetteville came in support of Griffin's Nov. 30 motion to deny NetChoice’s Nov. 28 motion for summary judgment against SB-396, the state’s age-verification Social Media Safety Act, or at least delay consideration until discovery is complete (see 2312010039). Discovery also will show that NetChoice’s members “know their policies are ineffective, and that the only effective way to combat child exploitation is to require that platforms presenting the greatest risk age verify,” said Griffin’s brief. Once the state can demonstrate through discovery that SB-396's age verification regime “is the only effective way to combat child exploitation,” the state can then demonstrate that SB-396 “is narrowly tailored,” it said. In its Aug. 31 order granting NetChoice’s request for a preliminary injunction to block Griffin’s enforcement of SB-396 (see 2309010024), the court “relied in part on NetChoice’s assertions that it its members took steps on their own platforms to protect minors through parental tools and filters,” said Griffin’s brief. The court held that the presence of such tools and filters meant that SB-396 was overly broad and not narrowly tailored to meet the government’s interest in protecting minors, it said. NetChoice makes many of those factual assertions in its statement of undisputed facts (SUF) that it then uses to make its case as to why SB-396 is unconstitutional, “specifically why it is not narrowly tailored,” it said. The state contests many of those factual assertions “and requires discovery in order to properly respond to them,” it said. The state “has specific issues” with the factual statements made in NetChoice’s SUF, “and the declarations that are cited within,” it said. The state has cited “numerous outside sources throughout this case, both through experts and the public domain, that NetChoice’s assertions are not true,” it said. Therefore, the state needs the discovery process “to probe these disputed factual assertions by NetChoice,” demonstrating that SB-396 is narrowly tailored, it said.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Dec. 12 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 the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate from South Korea (C-580-888). The agency set a 0.87% CVD cash deposit rate for the only company under review, POSCO and its affiliates. Rates set in this review will be used to set importer assessment for subject merchandise entered Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2021.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on large diameter welded pipe from Canada (A-122-863). These final results will be used to set final assessments of antidumping duties on importers for subject merchandise entered May 1, 2021, through April 30, 2022. Changes to cash deposit rates from these final results take effect Dec. 13, the date they are set to be published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Dec. 12 on AD/CVD proceedings:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Dec. 11, 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 U.S. Supreme Court, with Justice Samuel Alito dissenting, denied Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s motion to intervene in Murthy et al v. Missouri et al (docket 23-511), the SCOTUS review of the injunction that bars officials from the White House and four federal agencies from coercing or significantly encouraging social media to moderate content. The injunction is stayed, pending the court’s resolution of its review.
The Commerce Department illegally used just one respondent in the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on stainless steel flanges from India covering entries in 2018-19, the Court of International Trade ruled Dec. 8. Judge Timothy Stanceu said that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's decision in YC Rubber Co. v. U.S. "is directly on point" in this case, because Commerce only reviewed exporter Chandan Steel Limited in a situation where multiple other companies exported the subject merchandise.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Dec. 11 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):