The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Feb. 13 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 a countervailing duty administrative review of truck and bus tires from China (C-570-041). This review covers subject merchandise from the exporters under review entered during the period Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Feb. 12 dismissed a host of claims from U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman against three of her colleagues for their investigation on Newman's fitness to continue serving on the court. Judge Christopher Cooper also rejected Newman's bid for an injunction against the CAFC Judicial Council's one-year ban on Newman hearing new cases at the court (see 2309200024) (Hon. Pauline Newman v. Hon. Kimbelry Moore, D.D.C. # 23-01334).
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on frozen warmwater shrimp from Vietnam (A-552-802). Commerce determined that no companies under review qualify for a separate rate, making them part of the Vietnam-wide entity, and subject to the Vietnam-wide entity rate of 25.76%. Commerce will assess AD at this rate on subject merchandise from these 118 companies entered Feb. 1, 2022, through Jan. 31, 2023. A new 25.76% cash deposit rate takes effect for these 118 companies on Feb. 14, when these final results are to be published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on emulsion styrene butadiene rubber from Mexico (A-201-848), making no changes to its preliminary results. Commerce set an AD rate of zero percent for Industrias Negromex S.A. de C.V., the one mandatory respondent in the review. Because the rate is zero percent, that zero percent rate was also applied to three non-individually examined companies -- Continental Tire de Mexico S.A. de C.V., Hyundai Glovis Mexico S. de R.L. de C.V. and Pirelli Neumaticos S.A. de C.V.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Feb. 13 on AD/CVD proceedings:
X and California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) agree that discovery and the issuance of a scheduling order in the district court should be postponed until the 9th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court resolves X’s pending appeal to reverse the denial of its motion for a preliminary injunction to block Bonta from enforcing AB-587, California’s social media transparency law (see 2401160031), said their joint status report Friday (docket 2:23-cv-01939) in U.S. District Court for Eastern California in Sacramento. Briefing on X’s appeal is scheduled to be completed in April, said the report. The resolution of the appeal “will likely inform the subjects of any discovery” and the timing for discovery deadlines and pretrial and trial proceedings, it said. The parties also agree that no other issues require resolution at the Feb. 26 pretrial scheduling conference, it said. They propose that the court take the conference off calendar and order the parties to file another joint status report within 21 days after the 9th Circuit issues its mandate on X’s appeal, it said. The parties have entered into a stipulation to stay discovery and continue the Feb. 26 conference and have filed a proposed order reflecting their agreement, it said. They ask the court to adopt the proposed order, it said.
A citric acid exporter said Feb. 9 that the Commerce Department had been wrong to refuse to do a quarterly analysis of the exporter’s costs even though it had faced large cost fluctuations due to the COVID-19 pandemic (Citribel N.V. v. U.S., CIT # 24-00010).
The “extensive federal censorship campaign” outlined in the “thorough opinions” of the district court and the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals undermines “deliberative democracy,” said 16 Republican state attorneys general in a U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief Friday (docket 23-411) in Murthy v. Missouri in support of the injunction to bar Biden administration officials from coercing social media platforms to moderate their content.
The Commerce Department has released a correction to the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on finished carbon steel flanges from India (A-533-871) covering exports of subject merchandise during the period of review Aug. 1, 2021, through July 31, 2022. Commerce said the appendix in the original final results notice, listing companies that were not individually examined, contained the names of five companies that actually were individually reviewed: Bansidhar Chiranjilal; Norma (India) Limited; R. N. Gupta & Company Limited; Uma Shanker Khandelwal & Co.; and USK Exports Private Limited. With the notice, Commerce removed those names from the appendix list.