The Commerce Department has released the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into modules, from China (C-570-980). These final results will be used to set final assessments of CV duties on importers for entries between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2021.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website June 14, 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.
U.S. District Judge Jeremy Kernodle for Eastern Texas in Tyler denied without prejudice the motion of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) and the Daily Wire and Federalist media outlets for a preliminary injunction to block the State Department from promoting or using censorship technology that targets Americans’ speech or the right-leading U.S. press (see 2402080044), said Kernodle’s signed order Thursday (docket 6:23-cv-00609). Kernodle previously granted the plaintiffs’ motion for expedited preliminary-injunction discovery and granted the parties leave to supplement their existing briefing on the preliminary-injunction motion following that discovery, said the order. The judge will allow the plaintiffs to refile an amended motion for a preliminary injunction after the close of the expedited discovery, it said. Jan. 17 will be the deadline for the plaintiffs to file that amended motion, said the judge’s scheduling order Thursday.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on certain aluminum foil from Turkey (A-489-844/C-489-845). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD/CVD on importers for subject merchandise entered Sept. 23, 2021, through Oct. 31, 2022, for AD and March 5, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2021, for CVD.
The Commerce Department on June 13 issued antidumping and countervailing duty orders on non-refillable steel cylinders from India (A-533-912/C-533-913). The orders set permanent antidumping and countervailing duties, which will remain in place unless revoked by Commerce in a sunset or changed circumstances review. Commerce will now begin conducting annual administrative reviews, if requested, to determine final assessments of AD/CVD on importers and make changes to cash deposit rates.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on forged steel fittings from China (A-570-067). These final results will be used to set final assessments of antidumping duties on importers for subject merchandise entered Nov. 1, 2021, through Oct. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department is amending the amended final determination in the less-than-fair-value investigation on mattresses from Cambodia (A555-001), covering the period Jan. 1, 2019, through Dec. 31, 2019, based on the May 16 final decision in a court case challenging the amended final determination. To satisfy the Court of International Trade, Commerce recalculated the weighted-average dumping margin for Best Mattresses/Rose Lion, and that resulted in the margin changing from 52.4% to 103.79%. Because of that change, the dumping margin applicable to all other companies also changed from 52.41% to 103.79%.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on aluminum foil from Brazil (A-351-856). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers for subject merchandise entered May 4, 2021, through Oct. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register June 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):
When the Commerce Department on June 5 published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on circular welded non-alloy steel pipe from South Korea (A-580-809) (see 2406050036), there were some errors in the Appendix II list of the non-individually examined companies.