The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 7 on AD/CVD proceedings:
WideOpenWest received an unsolicited nonbinding preliminary proposal from DigitalBridge Investments and Crestview Partners to purchase WOW shares that Crestview doesn't already own for $4.80 a share, WOW said Friday. It said its board would set up a special committee of independent directors to evaluate the proposal. Crestview has a 38% stake in WOW, according to WOW's annual report.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register May 6 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 has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on carbon and alloy steel threaded rod from India (A-533-887). In the final results of this review, Commerce may set assessment rates for subject merchandise entered April 1, 2022, through March 31, 2023, from the 112 companies under review.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 6 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The “almost simultaneous” likely start of new antidumping and countervailing duty investigations and end of a grace period for AD/CVD on Southeast Asian solar cells and panels creates a “complicated situation for importers” with “intersecting risks,” law firm Covington said in a client alert May 1.
The U.S. District Court for Southern New York has denied the motion of three plaintiff-appellees to enforce the preliminary injunction order that bars New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) from enforcing the state’s hateful conduct law, Sarah Coco, assistant solicitor general in James’ office, wrote the clerk of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Appeals Court in a Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 28(j) letter Thursday (23-356). James’ 2nd Circuit appeal seeks to lift the injunction, but the appeal is being held in abeyance, pending the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in NetChoice’s First Amendment challenges to the Texas and Florida social media content moderation laws (see 2402230077). The New York law, Section 394-ccc, requires social media networks to give users a mechanism for reporting hateful conduct on the platforms. The law also requires the networks to disclose a policy explaining how they will respond to those user reports. The three plaintiff-appellees -- UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh, plus the Rumble Canada and Locals Technology online networks -- contended in their motion that James violated the injunction by sending voluntary requests for information to social media networks, including plaintiff Rumble Canada, said Coco’s letter. According to the plaintiff-appellees’ motion, James improperly sought information about the networks’ responses to the proliferation of calls for violence against Jewish and Muslim people on social media in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, said the letter. But the district court’s denial of the motion absolved James of any wrongdoing, said the letter.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website May 3, 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.
Petitioners filed a motion for judgment May 1 contesting the International Trade Commission’s negligibility finding regarding aluminum extrusions from the Dominican Republic imported from 2022 to 2023. They alleged that the initial data collected by the ITC proved the imports exceeded the negligibility threshold, but that the commission unlawfully altered that data and ignored evidence that imports seem to be increasing over time (U.S. Aluminum Extruders Coalition v. U.S., CIT # 23-00270).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register May 3 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):