The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on hot-rolled steel flat products from Japan (A-588-874). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers for subject merchandise entered Oct. 1, 2021, through Sept. 30, 2022.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 10 on AD/CVD proceedings:
T-Mobile voluntarily dismissed its complaint against the California Public Utilities Commission regarding the state’s shift to a per-line universal service fund surcharge. The 9th Circuit Court last month affirmed the U.S. District Court for Northern California decision to deny a preliminary injunction against the CPUC (see 2404260066). The 9th Circuit said the carrier failed to show a likelihood of success. “This notice of voluntary dismissal is being filed with the Court before Defendants have served either an answer or a motion for summary judgment … and by operation of law, the dismissal is without prejudice,” T-Mobile said Thursday at the district court (case 3:23-cv-00483-LB).
Correction: Commerce made a single change to the scope of its ongoing AD/CVD investigations on aluminum extrusions (see 2405070079) beyond what it already changed in its preliminary countervailing duty determinations. At the request of the petitioner that requested the investigations, Commerce is changing a paragraph to describe more clearly an exclusion from the scope, as follows:
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register May 9 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 issued an antidumping duty order on paper shopping bags from Turkey (A-489-849). The order sets permanent antidumping duties, which will remain in place unless revoked by Commerce in a sunset or changed circumstances review. Commerce will now begin conducting annual administrative reviews, if requested, to determine final assessments of AD on importers and make changes to cash deposit rates.
T-Mobile’s new 108-foot cell tower proposed for Roswell, Georgia, likely won’t remedy the significant gap T-Mobile has in LTE service in the area, and so there’s “no technical justification” for the tower, said the preliminary engineering report Tuesday (docket 1:10-cv-01464) in U.S. District Court for Northern Georgia of Ben Levitan, the city’s new expert witness (see 2404230002). The court approved Levitan as the city’s substitute expert witness March 25 after its previous expert resigned unexpectedly March 2, citing stress from the assignment (see 2403110001). Levitan found that T-Mobile’s 4G/LTE service in Roswell would improve by only 2% if T-Mobile’s tower application is approved, leaving more than 52% of the area with no 4G/LTE service at all, said his report: “It is my opinion that this tower is unnecessary to solve the claimed problems T-Mobile is trying to fix." T-Mobile’s concerns about a lack of cellphone service to the specified 0.9-square-mile-area and the inability of residents in the area to have 911 service “are unfounded,” it said. If, however, T-Mobile's claims “are taken at face value” and the company wants to increase the number of people who can use T-Mobile’s service in the Roswell area, “there are numerous industry standard engineering options which will repair the gap with no additional equipment and spare T-Mobile the cost of a new 110-foot monopole cell tower,” it said. One option is small cells, said the report. The carrier “currently boasts 43,800 such cells providing coverage and capacity improvement to small pockets of weak service throughout the country,” it said. “As such, this discussion could lead to the city and T-Mobile agreeing on a solution that would likely be more favorable to T-Mobile in achieving their goals," and also satisfy the concerns of Roswell residents, it said. The proposed 110-foot facility is clearly "overkill" for fixing the claimed service gap, and it’s “cost-prohibitive to solve the problems claimed,” it said. T-Mobile’s responsive expert witness report is due June 19.
U.S. District Judge Ann Marie McIff Allen for Utah in Salt Lake City recused herself from the case in which NetChoice is seeking to defeat Utah’s newly enacted Minor Protection in Social Media Act, said the judge’s signed recusal order Monday (docket 2:23-cv-00911). The case was reassigned to U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby, said a text-only docket notice Tuesday. NetChoice seeks a preliminary injunction blocking Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes (R) and Katherine Hass, director of Utah’s Division of Consumer Protection, from enforcing the statute when it takes effect Oct. 1 (see 2405060006). NetChoice calls the statute “an unconstitutional restriction on minors’ and adults’ ability to access and engage in protected speech.”
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 9 on AD/CVD proceedings:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website May 8, 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.