The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register March 26 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 a correction to the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on steel nails from Malaysia (A-557-816), which were published Feb. 6. There were no rate changes to the final results, which will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered July 2021 through June 2022.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks for Western Arkansas in Fayetteville granted in part and denied in part the Arkansas attorney general's motion to deny or defer consideration of NetChoice's motion for summary judgment against SB-396, the state’s age verification Social Media Safety Act, until discovery is complete (see 2312110032), said the judge’s signed opinion and order Sunday (docket 5:23-cv-05105). The judge also granted in part and denied in part NetChoice’s motion to stay discovery (see 2310300008), it said. Limited discovery may proceed before the court considers summary judgment, said the opinion and order. The court finds that, “out of an abundance of caution,” limited discovery is “appropriate” into the services that NetChoice members provide to users that allegedly protect children from harmful material on their platforms, it said. In arguing for a discovery stay, NetChoice had warned of the chilling effect that expansive discovery would have on its members’ First Amendment rights. The court agrees that expansive discovery “is inappropriate here,” said the judge’s opinion and order. But the court is “unpersuaded” that the limited discovery he’s ordering “imposes an undue hardship on NetChoice’s members,” it said. Brooks’ Aug. 31 order granted NetChoice’s motion for a preliminary injunction to block AG Tim Griffin (R)’s enforcement of SB-396 (see 2309010024).
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices March 26 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated March 25 with the following headquarters rulings (ruling revocations and modifications will be detailed elsewhere in a separate article as they are announced in the Customs Bulletin):
The Commerce Department is amending its preliminary antidumping duty determination on mattresses from Taiwan (A-583-873), ending retroactive duties on the “all others” companies after finding its critical circumstances finding for those companies was in error. Suspension of liquidation and AD cash deposit requirements will now be in effect for entries on or after March 1, 2024, for the “all others” companies. Commerce’s critical circumstances findings remain unchanged for the individually investigated companies from Thailand -- Fuyue Mattress Industry Co., Ltd.; Star Seeds Co., Ltd.; and Yong Yi Cheng Co., Ltd. – so entries from those companies will remain subject to suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements effective Dec. 2, 2023 (see 2403010055).
U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton for Eastern Virginia in Alexandria ordered defendant Alyssha Holdren to cease and desist any use of her previous employer’s confidential and proprietary information, said his consent order Thursday (docket 1:24-cv-00395) on Maximus’ motion for preliminary injunction. Maximus’ March 12 breach-of-contract complaint alleged Holdren, a former sales director at the company, deleted company data, “sabotaged its systems, and revoked administrator access of other Maximus employees” without authorization (see 2403130044). The parties reached an agreement to resolve a pending motion for a preliminary injunction and extend the terms of a temporary restraining order issued on March 15, said the order. Hilton also ordered Holdren to return to Maximum all company-owned equipment and information and to submit to a forensic examination of any devices containing company information, “or used to store Maximus information,” to allow the company to determine the scope and extent of her actions in connection with Maximum property.
Chinese exporter Ninestar Corp. on March 22 moved to treat its submission at the Court of International Trade in support of its motion to unseal and unredact the record as a "highly sensitive document" in its case contesting its listing on the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List. The exporter said it doesn't waive any claim that certain parts of the record "should eventually be unsealed," nor does it waive any argument that its requested documents shouldn't be treated as confidential information under the court's protective order (Ninestar Corp. v. United States, CIT # 23-00182).
Defendant-intervenor New Zealand told the Court of International Trade on March 19 that all parties now agree they would like the court to dissolve a preliminary injunction prohibiting the U.S. and others from purchasing nine types of seafood from certain New Zealand exporters (Sea Shepherd New Zealand v. U.S., CIT # 20-00112).
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website March 21, 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.