The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 15 on AD/CVD proceedings:
U.S. District Judge for Massachusetts Allison Burroughs granted Johns Hopkins defendants’ motion to stay proceedings in In Re: MOVEit Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, said her text-only order (docket 3083) Monday in Boston. Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Health System requested in a joint motion Friday that seven cases in the multidistrict litigation be stayed pending resolution of settlement proceedings in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, Maryland. In a Jan. 3 court-ordered mediation, the parties to the circuit court actions negotiated a classwide settlement that, if approved, would resolve the claims pending against Johns Hopkins in the seven federal court cases, said the motion. That settlement was consummated March 27, and plaintiffs’ counsel in the Baltimore City cases filed an unopposed motion for preliminary approval April 4. The parties agree that the most efficient path forward is to stay the Johns Hopkins cases in the MDL pending resolution of the request for class settlement approval pending in the Baltimore City Circuit Court, it said. The stay would preserve Johns Hopkins’ ability to litigate threshold issues such as the Class Action Fairness Act and standing in the event that the circuit court doesn’t approve the settlement, the motion said. Following the resolution of the class settlement request, the parties will confer and provide the court with a proposal for the Johns Hopkins cases in the MDL. To date, 10 class actions have been filed against Johns Hopkins, seven in federal court and three in the Baltimore City court; an 11th case was recently dismissed, said the motion. The cases involve Progress Software's May 2023 data breach in MOVEit file-transfer software.
An exporter of frozen fish fillets from Vietnam brought a case to court contesting the 2021-2022 antidumping review on its products. In its complaint, it said the Commerce Department had wrongly denied it byproduct offsets for “fresh broken meat” and “fresh fish waste by-products” and illegally liquidated some of its entries at the “punitive” Vietnam-wide rate instead of its own, lower, separate rate (Can Tho Import Export Seafood Joint Stock Company v. U.S., CIT # 24-00080).
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website May 14, 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.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on multilayered wood flooring from China (C-570-971). The agency set new CV duty cash deposit rates for 14 Chinese producers and exporters. These final results will be used to set final assessments of CV duties on importers for entries between Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2021.
The Commerce Department issued its final affirmative determinations in the antidumping duty investigations on mattresses from Bosnia and Herzegovina (A-893-002), Bulgaria (A-487-001), Myanmar (formerly Burma) (A-546-001), Italy (A-475-845), the Philippines (A-565-804), Poland (A-455-807), Slovenia (A-856-002) and Taiwan (A-583-873). Changes to cash deposit requirements set in these final determinations take effect May 15, the date they are scheduled for publication in the Federal Register.
The final price EMA Professional Services Corp. pays to its suppliers for precious metal bars after importation is determined according to "an acceptable formula" and meets the "'price actually paid or payable'" standard for purposes of the transaction value method, CBP said. EMA may report any price adjustments through the ACE Reconciliation Program, the agency said in an April 19 customs ruling.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website May 13, 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.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register May 13 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 and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 13 on AD/CVD proceedings: