The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Jan. 30-31 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
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Exporter Oman Fasteners asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Jan. 29 to dismiss petitioner Mid Continent Steel & Wire's appeal of a Court of International Trade decision imposing an injunction on the Commerce Department's antidumping duty cash deposits on Oman Fasteners' steel nail imports. The exporter said the injunction is no longer active because the Commerce Department completed the next administrative review of the AD order, so there is no live controvery in the case (Oman Fasteners v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 23-1661).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Jan. 30 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):
Imports of collated steel staples from Thailand and Vietnam made from Chinese wire or wire band are circumventing antidumping and countervailing duties on collated steel staples from China (A-570-112/C-570-113), the Commerce Department said in a Jan. 30 final determination in an anti-circumvention inquiry.
The temporary restraining order imposed Jan. 9 by U.S. District Judge Algenon Marbley for Southern Ohio in Columbus to block Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) from enforcing the state’s Parental Notification by Social Media Operators Act when it took effect Jan. 15 (see 2401090062) was the "correct" decision, said NetChoice’s reply Friday (docket 2:24-cv-00047) in support of a preliminary injunction. Nothing in Yost’s Jan. 19 response (see 2401220038) “supports any different conclusions now,” said the reply. Yost’s primary argument against the TRO and the injunction, that the statute regulates contracts, not speech, is “meritless,” said NetChoice. The statute “regulates protected speech in myriad ways, all triggering First Amendment strict scrutiny,” it said.
Various importers and exporters are looking to intervene in a suit from solar cell maker Auxin Solar and solar module designer Concept Clean Energy challenging the Commerce Department's pause of antidumping and countervailing duties on solar cells and modules from Southeast Asian countries found to be circumventing the AD/CVD orders on these goods from China (Auxin Solar v. United States, CIT # 23-00274).
The European Council on Jan. 26 adopted a negotiating mandate on the proposed regulation barring goods made with forced labor from the EU market, the council announced. The mandate included a host of changes to the regulation, including a clarification that the measure's scope would include "products offered for distance sales," the creation of a single forced labor portal and a stronger role for the European Commission in investigating the use of forced labor.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty new shipper review on certain frozen fish fillets from Vietnam (A-552-801) covering Co May Import Export Company Limited during the review period of Aug. 1, 2022, through Jan. 31, 2023. The agency calculated a zero percent AD rate for subject merchandise both produced and exported by Co May. If this finding is confirmed in the final results, Commerce will not require AD cash deposits for subject merchandise produced and exported by Co May until further notice. For now, such merchandise from Co May will continue to enter at the $0.14/kg Vietnam-wide rate (see 2309110057).