The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from Mexico (A-201-836). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered Aug. 1, 2021, through July 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on passenger vehicle and light truck tires from China (A-570-016). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered Aug. 1, 2021, through July 31, 2022.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Mario Garcia for Southern Indiana in Indianapolis denied the Indiana attorney general's motion for a stay in a suit to block enforcement of HB-1186, the state's "buffer law,” pending the outcome of a YouTuber’s appeal in the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (see 2402220005), said Garcia’s signed order Friday (docket 1:23-cv-01805). The plaintiffs -- seven media organizations including Nexstar, Scripps, Tegna and the Indianapolis Star -- opposed the stay. HB-1186 makes it a misdemeanor for news media members to approach within 25 feet of police officers on active duty. YouTuber Donald Nicodemus' appeal seeks to reverse the district court’s Jan. 12 decision denying his motion for a permanent injunction against the city of South Bend’s enforcement of the buffer law. Like the media organizations in the case against Rokita, Nicodemus is challenging HB-1186 on First Amendment grounds. AG Todd Rokita (R) argued that the 7th Circuit’s determination of issues in Nicodemus’ appeal “will give clear answers to numerous identical arguments raised” in the media organizations’ case against Rokita. But Garcia found that a stay would prejudice the media organizations, because amid a stay, they would have to wait for the court to rule on their motion for a preliminary injunction to block HB-1186, said the judge’s order. The preliminary injunction motion “is fully briefed and ripe for decision,” it said. Garcia also isn’t persuaded that Rokita “will face hardship if this stay is denied,” it said. The AG argues that the issues in the instant case will be simplified by awaiting a 7th Circuit ruling in the Nicodemus case. Even taken as true, a simplification of issues if a stay is granted doesn’t amount to hardship to Rokita if it’s denied, said the order.
In oral arguments March 7, Court of International Trade Judge Timothy Reif heard the government’s and exporters’ arguments in a case regarding an administrative review on multilayered wood flooring from China. The review’s final results were based on the calculated rate of only one respondent after it was discovered selection of the other was based on an error by the Commerce Department (Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo and Wood Industry Co. v. U.S., CIT # 20-03885).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register March 11 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 finalized its preliminary finding (see 2401150001) that four Canadian companies are cross-owned entities for the purposes of countervailing duties on softwood lumber products from Canada (C-122-858). Commerce said it continues to find that Interfor Corporation, EACOM Timber Corporation, Chaleur Forest Products Inc., and Chaleur Forest Products LP are cross-owned entities, in the final results of a changed circumstances review released March 11.
The Commerce Department is again amending the final results of a countervailing duty administrative review on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells from China (C-570-980), covering entries during the calendar year 2019 review period. It said its revision to the countervailable subsidy rates assigned to JA Solar Technology Yangzhou Co., Ltd. (JA Solar) and Risen Energy Co., Ltd. (Risen) is due to a recent Court of International Trade judgment that affected the way it calculated the rate.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on ripe olives from Spain (A-469-817/C-469-818). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD/CVD on importers for subject merchandise entered Aug.1, 2021, through July 31, 2022, for AD and calendar year 2021 for CVD.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of a countervailing duty administrative review on utility scale wind towers from Malaysia (C-557-822). The review covered subject merchandise from the exporters under review entered during the period March 25, 2021, and Dec. 31, 2021.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on stainless steel flanges from India (A-533-877). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise from 14 companies under review entered Oct. 1, 2021, through Sept. 30, 2022.