Future automated decision-making rules in California could have national impact on communications and internet companies, among many other industries, privacy experts said in interviews last week. The California Privacy Protection Agency board plans a Friday meeting to discuss an early proposal that the CPPA released last week. The proceeding is preliminary, with the agency saying it expects to formally begin the rulemaking next year.
The Court of International Trade in a Dec. 6 order postponed a hearing on Chinese exporter Ninestar Corp.'s motion for a preliminary injunction in the company's suit against its placement on the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List. The parties asked for a delay in the hearing while they negotiate a process for the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force to consider a request for removal from the UFLPA Entity List by Ninestar (see 2312050023) (Ninestar Corp. v. United States, CIT # 23-00182).
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) and the Daily Wire and Federalist media outlets seek declaratory and injunctive relief to stop the State Department from running “one of the most egregious government operations to censor the American press” in the history of the U.S., said their complaint Wednesday (docket 6:23-cv-00609) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas in Tyler. The complaint draws heavily from documents produced in discovery in Missouri v. Biden.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Dec. 6 Federal Register on the following AD/CVD injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Dec. 6 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 its antidumping duty administrative review on circular welded non-alloy steel pipe from South Korea (A-580-809). 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 November 2021 through October 2022.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on strontium chromate from Austria (A-433-813). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise for the only company under review, Habich GmbH, entered Nov. 1, 2021, through Oct. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department has issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on steel nails from the United Arab Emirates (A-520-804). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered May 1, 2021, through April 30, 2022.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on mattresses from Thailand (A-549-841). Commerce found the only company under review, Saffron Living Co., Ltd., had no bona fide shipments of subject merchandise to the U.S. during the period of review. As such, the AD cash deposit rate for Saffron Living will remain at the rate set for the company in the most recently completed proceeding (i.e., the original final determination).
The Commerce Department on Dec. 6 released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate from Italy (A-475-834). These final results will be used to set final assessments of antidumping duties on importers of subject merchandise from Italy entered May 1, 2021, through April 30, 2022.