The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of a countervailing duty administrative review of steel concrete reinforcing bar from Turkey (C-489-819). Commerce will assess CV duties on importers at the rates determined in the final results of this review for subject merchandise entered during the period Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2021.
The Commerce Department on Dec. 7 published the preliminary results of its antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on aluminum foil from Turkey (A-489-844/C-489-845). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set AD assessment rates for subject merchandise for the companies under review entered Sept. 23, 2021, through Oct. 31, 2022, and CV duty assessment rates for entries March 5, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2021.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on welded stainless pressure pipe from India (A-533-867). Rates calculated in this review will be used to set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise from 21 producers and exporters that was entered Nov. 1, 2021, through Oct. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on fresh garlic from China (A-570-831). The agency preliminarily said the only company remaining under review, Jining Huahui International Co., Ltd., had no bona fide exports of subject merchandise to the U.S. during the period under review. If Commerce's “no shipments” finding for Jining Huahui is continued in the final results, subject merchandise from the company will continue to enter at AD rates previously in effect, and any entries filed with Jining Huahui's case number entered Nov. 1, 2021, through Oct. 31, 2022, will be liquidated at the China-wide rate. Commerce will make its final decision when it issues the final results of this review, currently due in April.
The Commerce Department published the preliminary results of a countervailing duty administrative review on chlorinated isocyanurates from China (C-570-991). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise from two of the three exporters under review that was entered Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2021.
More than 50 agriculture interests, led by the National Corn Growers Association, asked the International Trade Commission to reconsider the impact of weather in 2019 when examining the phosphate purchases and import patterns of farmers, as the Court of International Trade instructed it to (see 2309190060). Flooding along the Mississippi River led to shipment problems for fertilizer, as well as fields that couldn't be planted.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Dec. 7 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Future automated decision-making rules in California could have national impact on communications and internet companies, among many other industries, privacy experts said in interviews last week. The California Privacy Protection Agency board plans a Friday meeting to discuss an early proposal that the CPPA released last week. The proceeding is preliminary, with the agency saying it expects to formally begin the rulemaking next year.
The Court of International Trade in a Dec. 6 order postponed a hearing on Chinese exporter Ninestar Corp.'s motion for a preliminary injunction in the company's suit against its placement on the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List. The parties asked for a delay in the hearing while they negotiate a process for the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force to consider a request for removal from the UFLPA Entity List by Ninestar (see 2312050023) (Ninestar Corp. v. United States, CIT # 23-00182).
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) and the Daily Wire and Federalist media outlets seek declaratory and injunctive relief to stop the State Department from running “one of the most egregious government operations to censor the American press” in the history of the U.S., said their complaint Wednesday (docket 6:23-cv-00609) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas in Tyler. The complaint draws heavily from documents produced in discovery in Missouri v. Biden.