The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Aug. 20 on AD/CVD proceedings:
A federal court on Tuesday dismissed a workplace privacy suit that DOJ brought against Illinois, ruling that federal immigration law isn't always absolute. The suit started in May, when DOJ alleged an amendment to Illinois’ Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act violated the Immigration Reform and Control Act (ICRA) of 1986 and other federal laws (see 2505050065).
The Commerce Department is setting new countervailing duty cash deposit requirements for imports of fiberglass door panels from China (C-570-210), after finding subsidization of Chinese producers in the preliminary determination of its CVD investigation. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after Aug. 21, the date that the preliminary determination is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register.
The FTC's probe of Media Matters is "a straightforward First Amendment violation," a federal judge ruled Friday, granting the left-leaning journalism watchdog group a preliminary injunction against the agency's civil investigative demand (CID). "It should alarm all Americans when the Government retaliates against individuals or organizations for engaging in constitutionally protected public debate," U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Sparkle Sooknanan said in an opinion (docket 1:25-cv-01959). Media Matters filed suit in June, seeking to block the CID (see 2506230039). The judge said Media Matters was "engaged in quintessential First Amendment activity" with its reporting on Elon Musk and his X social media platform, and the subsequent FTC CID was a retaliatory act.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Aug. 19 on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CVD rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on citric acid from Thailand (A-549-833). In the final results of this review, Commerce may set assessment rates for subject merchandise from three companies entered July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024.
The Commerce Department preliminarily determines that a South Korean company is not the successor-in-interest to a similarly named company for the purposes of countervailing duties on certain corrosion-resistant steel (CORE) products (C-580-879) from South Korea. The agency preliminarily found that Dongkuk Coated Metal Co., Ltd. (Dongkuk CM) isn't the successor-in-interest to Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., Ltd. (Old Dongkuk Steel), in the preliminary results of a changed circumstances review. As such, the agency also preliminarily found that Old Dongkuk Steel’s exclusion from the CVD order on South Korean CORE products doesn't apply to Dongkuk CM. Commerce will be accepting comments on this result through Sept. 10. Commerce expects to make a final determination public on or about Nov. 17.
The Commerce Department soon will suspend liquidation and impose countervailing duty cash deposit requirements on imports of polypropylene corrugated boxes from China, it said in an Aug. 18 fact sheet. Commerce will set the CVD rate at 199.6% for all Chinese exporters, the agency said as it announced its preliminary determinations in its ongoing CVD investigation. 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. Commerce is conducting concurrent antidumping duty investigations on the same product from China and Vietnam, with a preliminary determination expected by Oct. 14.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Aug. 19 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department issued its final determination in its countervailing duty investigation on sol gel alumina-based ceramic abrasive grains from China (C-570-191), finding countervailable subsidization of producers and exporters. The notice takes effect Aug. 15, but CVD cash deposit rates are unchanged in this final determination.