The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on prestressed concrete steel wire strand from Thailand (A-549-820). Commerce assigned a zero percent AD rate for the only company under review, The Siam Industrial Wire Co., Ltd. (SIW). Subject merchandise from SIW entered Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022, will be liquidated without regard to AD. The new zero percent cash deposit rate for SIW takes effect May 21.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on strontium chromate from Austria (A-433-813). Commerce set an AD rate of zero percent for Habich GmbH, the only company under review. Commerce won't assess AD duties on subject merchandise from Habich entered Nov. 1, 2021, through Oct. 31, 2022. The new zero AD duty cash deposit rate for Habich takes effect May 21, the date of publication of these final results in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 20 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department is beginning new antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on high chrome cast iron grinding media from India, it said in a fact sheet May 17. The underlying petition was filed in April (see 2404300041). The International Trade Commission is scheduled to make its preliminary injury determinations by June 10. These AD/CVD investigations will continue only if the ITC finds injury. International Trade Today will provide more details upon publication of the initiation notices in the Federal Register.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court is considering for an upcoming oral argument calendar in San Francisco Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen’s (R) appeal to reverse the preliminary injunction that blocks him from enforcing Montana’s statewide TikTok ban (see 2401030007), said a text-only docket notice Thursday (docket 24-34). The 9th Circuit is eyeing sitting dates in September or October, said the notice. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy for Montana in Missoula granted the joint motion of the parties in the consolidated case that challenges the state's statewide TikTok ban to stay their proceedings pending the "final adjudication" of TikTok’s constitutional challenge to the federal TikTok ban in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (see 2405160031). Molloy said Wednesday that the stay will be lifted if the 9th Circuit reverses his preliminary injunction order.
Spotify slashed the reported service provider revenue for its Premium subscription offering to the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) by half on March 1, without advance notice, by “improperly characterizing the service as a different type of Subscription Offering and underpaying royalties,” alleged the MLC's Copyright Act complaint Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-03809) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.
The Commerce Department made a preliminary affirmative antidumping determination that truck and bus tires from Thailand (A-549-848) are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The agency will impose antidumping duty cash requirements on entries of subject merchandise beginning May 20, the date this preliminary determination is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department issued a notice in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into modules, from Cambodia (A-555-003/C-555-004), Malaysia (A-557-830/C-557/831), Thailand (A-549-851/C-549-852) and Vietnam (A-552-841/C-552-842). The CVD investigations cover entries for the calendar year 2023. The AD investigations on Cambodia, Malaysia and Thailand cover entries April 1, 2023, through March 31, 2024, and the AD investigation on Vietnam covers entries Oct. 1, 2023, through March 31, 2024.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 17 on AD/CVD proceedings:
A district court judge in Missoula, Montana, granted the joint motion of the parties in the consolidated case that challenges the state's statewide TikTok ban to stay their proceedings pending the "final adjudication" of the company's constitutional challenge to the federal TikTok ban embedded in the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy issued his signed order Wednesday (docket 9:23-cv-00061). TikTok and parent ByteDance filed the constitutional challenge May 7 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (see 2405070045). The stay will be lifted if the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reverses Molloy’s preliminary injunction barring Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen (R) from enforcing the statewide TikTok ban, said the order. It directs the parties to file a joint status report within 30 days of the final adjudication of the D.C. Circuit action.