The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on mattresses from Indonesia (A-560-836). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise from 32 companies under review entered Nov. 3, 2020, through April 30, 2022.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on certain steel staples from China (A-570-112). Commerce said it continued to find that Tianjin Hweschun Fasteners Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (Tianjin Hweschun), the sole mandatory respondent in this review, did not sell subject merchandise at below normal value. As a result, Commerce will not assess AD duties on entries from Taiwan Hweschun during the period July 1, 202, though June 30, 2022. A zero percent cash deposit rate takes effect for Tianjin Hweschun Dec. 7, the date these final results are to be published in the Federal Register.
The Nov. 30 opinion and order where U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy for Montana in Missoula granted the plaintiffs in two consolidated cases (dockets 9:23-cv-00056 and 9:23-cv-00061) a preliminary injunction against a statewide TikTok ban (see 2312010003) was “a victory for TikTok and the individual plaintiffs,” Pillsbury senior associate Jon Jekel said in an analysis Monday. The case “will also be celebrated by free speech advocates, as multiple organizations filed amicus briefs in support of the injunction,” said Jekel. “It comes at a time when legislatures and the judiciary are weighing how to regulate social media companies,” he said. The ruling against Montana’s legislation “is a crucial development in the ongoing legal battles surrounding social media, digital privacy, and state versus federal powers,” said Jekel. As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to weigh in on related cases, “the legal community and digital platforms alike await with keen interest to see how these evolving issues will shape the future of online communication and governance,” he said.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Dec. 6 on AD/CVD proceedings:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Dec. 5, 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.
Chinese exporter Ninestar Corp. moved at the Court of International Trade to unseal and unredact the administrative record in its case against the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force's (FLETF) decision to add the company to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List. Ninestar said that while the trade court's recent order mandating disclosure to Ninestar's counsel of the government's evidentiary record marked some progress, the company's counsel said they remain "hobbled" since they can't share these materials with their client (Ninestar Corp. v. United States, CIT # 23-00182).
Defendant Zachary Lotz, who also goes by the aliases Lao Ganma and Sam Hill, “has repeatedly harassed, and continues to harass, Shopify merchants and Shopify itself through knowingly false allegations of copyright infringement,” alleged Shopify’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act complaint Monday (docket 1:23-cv-01254) in U.S. District Court for Western New York in Buffalo.
Verizon seeks a preliminary injunction, pending trial on the merits of its claims in the case, ordering the city of Milwaukee “to issue permits and all necessary permissions” for the installation of small-cell wireless communications facilities in the city’s Deer District (see 2311270034), said its motion Monday (docket 2:23-cv-01581) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Wisconsin in Milwaukee.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Dec. 4, 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.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on monosodium glutamate from Indonesia (A-560-826). These final results, unchanged from the preliminary results, will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise from two companies under review entered Nov. 1, 2021, through Oct. 31, 2022.