The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Feb. 27 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The seven media organization plaintiffs seeking to block Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) from enforcing HB-1186, the state’s “buffer law,” oppose his Feb. 21 motion to stay their case pending the outcome of a YouTuber’s appeal in a separate case before the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (see 2402220005), said their opposition Friday (docket 1:23-cv-01805) in U.S. District Court for Southern Indiana in Indianapolis. The buffer law, which took effect July 1, makes it a misdemeanor for the news media to come within 25 feet of police officers on active duty. Rokita's motion for a stay cites “no hardship of any kind” in a case in which he faces “no pending obligations,” said the opposition. He seeks an “indefinite delay” of the court’s “imminent decision on a fully briefed motion for a preliminary injunction,” it said. His request is “meritless,” it said. There’s no dispute that the YouTuber’s appeal “raises only an issue that is not necessary to the disposition” of the case that Rokita wants to have stayed, said the opposition. Even setting that “threshold problem aside,” the AG hasn’t attempted to demonstrate “any hardship” he would suffer absent a stay, it said. Rokita’s motion doesn’t even mention the “governing standard” in seeking a stay because it’s clear he can’t meet that standard, said the opposition. The plaintiffs, which include Nexstar, Scripps, Tegna and the Indianapolis Star, would be “badly prejudiced” by a delay “that would amount in substance to a denial of their motion for preliminary relief,” it said. The motion should be “promptly denied,” it said.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Feb. 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 looks set to recognize an Indian company’s name change for the purposes of antidumping duties on polyethylene terephthalate film, sheet, and strip (PET film) from India (A-533-824). In the preliminary results of a changed circumstances review, the agency preliminarily found Garware Hi-Tech Films Limited is the successor-in-interest to Garware Polyester Limited. Commerce preliminarily found Garware Hi-Tech operates as materially the same business entity as Garware Polyester with respect to the production and sale of subject merchandise.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Feb. 26 on AD/CVD proceedings:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Feb. 22, 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.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R) seeks a stay in the case brought by seven media organizations to block enforcement of the state's "buffer law,” pending the outcome of a YouTuber’s appeal (docket 24-1099) in the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (see 2401230006), said Rokita’s motion Wednesday (docket 1:23-cv-01805) in U.S. District Court for Southern Indiana in Indianapolis. The media organizations, which include Nexstar, Scripps, Tegna and the Indianapolis Star, all oppose the stay, said Rokita’s motion.
The Court of International Trade on Feb. 22 again remanded the Commerce Department's use of total adverse facts available against exporter Meihua and its affiliate in an antidumping duty review on xanthan gum from China. Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves said Meihua properly submitted information on the duties it paid, and its submission of its data 56 days before the antidumping review's preliminary results wasn't "untimely."
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on steel propane cylinders from Thailand (A-549-839). Commerce set an AD rate of 2.17% for Sahamitr Pressure Container Plc., the only company under review, representing a slight increase from the preliminary rate of 2.12% it calculated. Subject merchandise from Sahamitr entered Aug. 1, 2021, through July 31, 2022, will be liquidated at importer-specific rates, Commerce said. The 2.17% AD duty cash deposit rate for Sahamitr takes effect Feb. 23, when the final results are to be published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on certain cold-rolled steel flat products from South Korea (A-580-881). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered Sept. 1, 2021, through Aug. 31, 2022.