The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on welded line pipe from South Korea (A-580-876). The agency preliminarily set zero percent AD rate for the one company remaining in the review, SeAH Steel Corporation. Rates calculated in this review will be used to set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise from these producers and exporters that was entered December 2021 through November 2022.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of a countervailing duty administrative review of multilayered wood flooring from China (C-570-971). This review covers subject merchandise from the exporters under review entered during the period Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2021.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on steel concrete reinforcing bar from Turkey (A-489-829). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on silicon metal from Malaysia (A-557-820). Commerce calculated a zero percent AD rate for PMB Silicon Sdn. Bhd, the only exporter under review. The final results are unchanged from the preliminary determination. Subject merchandise from PMB Silicon entered Feb. 1, 2021, through July 31, 2022, will be liquidated without any assessment of AD, and future entries of subject merchandise exported by PMB Silicon will not be subject to AD cash deposit requirements until further notice. The new zero percent AD cash deposit rate takes effect Dec. 28, when these final results are set to be published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Dec. 22 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department won't yet impose countervailing duty cash deposit requirements on imports of mattresses from Indonesia, it said in a fact sheet announcing its preliminary determination in the CVD investigation. The agency calculated de minimis CV duty rates for all Indonesian exporters. Suspension of liquidation and antidumping duty cash deposit requirements are already in effect for mattresses from Indonesia under an AD order issued in 2021. Commerce may still suspend liquidation for CVD purposes and require AD cash deposits when it issues its final determination, due May 8.
The International Trade Comission is required by law to reconsider its original 2016 injury and negligibility determinations in a 2021 sunset review of an antidumping duty order on Turkish hot-rolled steel, an exporter argued Dec. 21 (Eregli Demir ve Celik Fabrikalari v. U.S. International Trade Commission, CIT # 22-00351).
U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty for Western Louisiana in Monroe retains “full authority,” under the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2018 decision in Hall v. Hall, to issue a ruling on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s pending motion for a preliminary injunction barring federal officials from conversing with social media platforms about censoring his protected speech, said Kennedy’s supplemental brief Friday (docket 3:23-cv-00381) in support of the motion for an injunction. Doughty previously stayed a decision on Kennedy’s motion for an injunction, pending SCOTUS resolution of the related case, Murthy v. Missouri (docket 23-411). But days after SCOTUS denied Kennedy’s motion to intervene in Murthy, Doughty said he was now “inclined” to rule on the injunction, requesting briefing on Dec. 13 about whether he had jurisdiction to do so with the related Murthy case still unresolved (see 2312150026). Kennedy urges Doughty to issue the injunction, said his brief. In granting the injunction, Doughty should indicate in his ruling that no motions for a stay or for reconsideration will be entertained, it said. He also asks that Doughty certify his ruling for immediate appeal, it said.
NetChoice is seeking a preliminary injunction blocking Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes (R) from enforcing the Utah Social Media Regulation Act against NetChoice members when the statute takes effect March 1 (see 2312180054), said its Dec. 20 memorandum (docket 2:23-cv-00911) in U.S. District Court for Utah in Salt Lake City.
The New Jersey Superior Court granted preliminary approval Dec. 15 of a proposed nationwide class action settlement, which, if given final approval at a March 22 fairness hearing, will resolve all claims in all class actions currently pending against Verizon related to the carrier’s hidden administrative charges, attorney Stephen DeNittis wrote U.S. District Judge Zahid Quraishi for New Jersey in Trenton in a letter Thursday (docket 3:23-cv-01138). DeNittis Osefchen's DeNittis represents the plaintiffs in two class actions alleging that Verizon engages in “bait-and-switch” schemes by prominently advertising flat monthly rates on postpaid plans and then charging higher rates after customers sign up for service (see 2303010015). If the proposed settlement is approved March 22, the parties have agreed that DeNittis’ two class actions will be voluntarily dismissed immediately thereafter, said the letter. All parties have agreed to jointly request that the judge administratively stay the two class actions until April 1, it said. If the proposed class action settlement has been approved by that time, the plaintiffs in both class actions will file a voluntary dismissal of those actions, said the letter.