Bleichmar Fonti is conducting an investigation into the unsolicited nonbinding preliminary proposal that WideOpenWest received May 2 from DigitalBridge Investments and various Crestview Partners entities to buy for $4.80 a share in cash all the outstanding shares of WOW that Crestview doesn’t currently own (see 2405030047), the law firm’s overview page said. It’s probing the proposal to determine whether WOW’s board “is conflicted, engaging in an unfair process, and agreeing to an unfair amount to be paid to shareholders,” it said. WOW doesn't comment on pending legal matters, a spokesperson said in an email Wednesday.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 16 on AD/CVD proceedings:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website May 15, 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.
All parties in the consolidated district court case that challenges Montana’s statewide TikTok ban seek to stay those proceedings pending the “final adjudication” of TikTok’s constitutional challenge to the federal TikTok ban that's embedded in the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, said their joint motion Tuesday (docket 9:23-cv-00061) in U.S. District Court for Montana in Missoula. 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 Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register May 15 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):
The Commerce Department is beginning an anti-circumvention inquiry on allegations that monosodium glutamate made in Malaysia using glutamic acid from China is circumventing the antidumping duty order on MSG from China (A-570-992), the agency said in a notice.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of an antidumping duty administrative review on common alloy aluminum sheet from South Africa (A-791-825). The final results of this review will be used to set importer assessments for one South African company for the period April 1, 2022, through March 31, 2023.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on truck and bus tires from China (C-570-041). The agency calculated new CVD cash deposit rates for the Chinese producers and exporters listed below. These final results will be used to set final assessments of CV duties on importers for entries Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department is beginning two new sets of antidumping and countervailing duty investigations, one on solar cells from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, and the other on alkyl phosphate esters from China, it said in a pair of fact sheets May 15 and 14, respectively. The International Trade Commission is scheduled to make its preliminary injury determinations by June 7 for alkyl phosphate esters, and June 10 for solar cells. 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 Commerce Department will soon suspend liquidation and impose antidumping duty cash deposit requirements on imports of truck and bus tires, it said in a fact sheet issued May 15. Commerce set AD rates ranging from zero to 2.35% for Thai exporters, the agency said as it announced its preliminary determination in its ongoing AD investigation. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after the date of publication of the preliminary determination in the Federal Register, which should occur in the coming days.