The Commerce Department on June 5 announced a large decrease in antidumping duty cash deposit rates in effect for aluminum extrusions from Turkey (A-489-850), amending its preliminary determination in an ongoing AD investigation to correct calculation errors in the original. Effective May 7, the date that liquidation was suspended and AD cash deposit rates first took effect under the preliminary determination, the unadjusted AD rate for Erdoganlar falls from 85.14% to 10.11%, and the AD rate for Sistem falls from 45.41% to 19.86%. The unadjusted all-others rate consequently falls from 73.43% to 12.98%, and Commerce is also lowering the penalty rate assigned to non-cooperative companies from 605.72% to 48.43% (37.26% when adjusted for cash deposit purposes). The new rates are as follows:
The Commerce Department wrongly attributed two unrelated entities to an Indian glycine exporter and hit it with adverse facts available for not providing those two companies’ financial information, the exporter said June 3. It also alleged that the department failed to notify it of any deficiencies in its responses (Kumar Industries v. U.S., CIT # 23-00263).
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website June 4, 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.
Seko Logistics will still pursue its lawsuit challenging CBP's suspension of the company from Type 86 filing and the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism, despite CBP's conditional reinstatement of the customs broker, according to a June 4 statement from the company. The Chicago-area customs broker and freight forwarder says CBP still hasn’t fully provided its reasons for Seko’s initial suspension.
NetChoice and Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R), having filed dueling motions for summary judgment May 3 in U.S. District Court for Southern Ohio over the state's social media parental notification law (see 2405060004), followed that up Monday with dueling responses in opposition (docket 2:24-cv-00047).
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on carbon and alloy steel wire rod from South Korea (A-580-891), calculating a 1.03% AD rate for POSCO and its affiliated company POSCO International Corporation. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from POSCO entered between May 1, 2022, and April 30, 2023, will be assessed AD duties at importer-specific rates.
The Commerce Department on June 3 published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on mattresses from Indonesia (A-560-836). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise from the 32 companies remaining under review entered May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2023.
A Chinese cabinet exporter, alleging that the Commerce Department unlawfully rejected its ministerial error comment on a review’s final results “because the error was present in the Preliminary Results as well,” filed a motion for judgment May 29 (The Ancientree Cabinet Co. v. U.S., CIT # 23-00262).
The FCC's World Radiocommunication Conference Advisory Committee has a particularly heavy load of 16 space-related agenda items on its plate in advance of WRC-27, Co-Chairwoman Kimberly Baum said Monday at WRC's first meeting. The meeting was largely housekeeping, including discussions of the informal working group structure and logistics of WAC and IWG meetings, as well as issues such as meeting procedures and records keeping. NTIA has a preparatory process through the Interdepartment Radio Advisory Committee (IRAC), FCC Office of International Affairs lawyer Greg Baker said. Proposals that are reconciled between the FCC and NTIA are forwarded to State, he said. Charles Glass, NTIA international spectrum policy division chief, said IRAC has two groups dealing with WRC issues: one an ad hoc committee working on recommendations to send to the FCC regarding implementation of WRC-23 outcomes, and another dealing with preliminary proposals for WRC-27. Glass said there is one preliminary view that will go before IRAC this week for approval, with several more considered during IRAC's meeting next month. Baum said WAC's aim is to have preliminary views and even preliminary proposals prepared before September's Inter-American Telecommunication Commission meeting.
Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes (R) is seeking the dismissal of count VI of NetChoice’s 11-count complaint that argues Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (see 2405060006) preempts the state’s Minor Protection in Social Media Act, a motion said Friday (docket 2:23-cv-00911) in U.S. District Court for Utah in Salt Lake City. Katherine Hass, director of Utah’s Division of Consumer Protection, joined Reyes in the motion.