The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on steel nails from the United Arab Emirates (A-520-804). Rates calculated in this review will be used to set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise from two producers and exporters -- Master Nails and Pins Manufacturing, LLC / Middle East Manufacturing Steel, LLC and Rich Well Steel Industries LLC -- that was entered May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2022.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on silicomanganese from India (A-533-823). The agency preliminarily found the only company under review -- Maithan Alloys Ltd. -- had an AD rate of 1.71%. If Commerce's finding for Maithan is continued in the final results, its AD cash deposit rate will be 1.71%, effective on the date Commerce's final results are published in the Federal Register. The agency would assess AD at importer-specific rates for entries of subject merchandise from Malthan entered May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2023, it said.
The Commerce Department published the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on chlorinated isocyanurates from China (C-570-991). The agency calculated new CV duty cash deposit rates for the Chinese producers and exporters listed below. There were slight changes to the preliminary results of this review that affected Heze Huayi's rate and consequently the rate for the one company receiving a review average rate, Sincere Cooperation Material. These final results will be used to set final assessments of CVD on importers for entries Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2021.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices June 12 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department issued antidumping duty orders on brass rod from Brazil (A-351-859), India (A-533-915), Mexico (A-201-858), South Korea (A-580-916) and South Africa (A-791-828), and a countervailing duty order on brass rod from South Korea (C-580-917). The orders set permanent antidumping and countervailing duties that will remain in place unless revoked by Commerce, which may only take place under certain conditions, such as a sunset or changed circumstances review. Commerce will now begin conducting annual administrative reviews, if requested, to determine final assessments of AD/CV duties on importers and make changes to cash deposit rates.
NetChoice seeks a two-week deadline extension, to July 12, to reply in support of its motion for a preliminary injunction to block Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes (R) from enforcing the state’s newly enacted Minor Protection in Social Media Act when it takes effect Oct. 1 (see 2405060006), said NetChoice’s unopposed motion Monday (docket 2:23-cv-00911) in U.S. District Court for Utah in Salt Lake City. The “modest extension” will give NetChoice adequate time to respond to the arguments raised in Reyes’ 60-page opposition brief and won’t delay the close of briefing in this case, said the motion. NetChoice will still file its opposition to Reyes’ motion to dismiss on June 28, it said. Reyes is seeking the dismissal of count VI of NetChoice’s 11-count complaint that argues Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act preempts Utah’s new social media law (see 2406030026). NetChoice opposes the statute as “an unconstitutional restriction on minors’ and adults’ ability to access and engage in protected speech.”
The Commerce Department issued antidumping duty orders last week on boltless steel shelving units prepackaged for sale from Malaysia (A-557-824), Taiwan (A-583-871), Thailand (A-549-846) and Vietnam (A-552-835). The orders detail a “gap period” of May 27 - June 5, 2024, of no AD duty liability.
The European Commission on June 10 opened a foreign subsidies investigation on the Emirates Telecommunications Group Company's (e&'s) sole control of PPF Telecom Group B.V., "excluding its Czech business." The commission said that it has "preliminary concerns" that e&, a state-controlled telecommunications firm, "may have been granted foreign subsidies that could distort the EU internal market." The investigation was opened under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation and will look at "actual or potential negative effects on the acquisition process" and whether the foreign subsidies "lead to actual or potential negative effects in the internal market."
IRobot’s representations to investors about the probability of regulatory approval of its purchase by Amazon and the “adequacy” of the company’s internal controls “were far from reality,” alleged a Securities Exchange Act class action Saturday (docket 1:24-cv-11498) in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in Boston.
Netgear breached its contractual obligation as a member of the Wi-Fi Alliance to grant licenses to its patented A dual band spectrum allocation system technology (U.S. Patent No. 7,936,714) on reasonable and nondiscriminatory (RAND) terms when it pursued an International Trade Commission exclusion order against TP-Link routers, alleged TP-Link's breach of contract complaint Monday (docket 5:24-cv-03478) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.