The Commerce Department is correcting its preliminary countervailing duty determination on paper shopping bags from China (A-570-153) to correct two company names, it said in a notice released Nov. 16. The two companies, Qingdao Chenyu Packaging Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Sanxi Paper Co., Ltd., both received rates of 144.03% in the preliminary determination (see 2311030057).
The Commerce Department published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on prestressed concrete steel wire strand from Ukraine (A-823-817, CBP A-462-818). The agency upheld its preliminary calculation of a zero percent AD rate for the sole company under review, PJSC Stalkanat. Commerce will liquidate entries from Stalkanat during the period Oct. 15, 2020, through March 31, 2022, without regard to AD, and future entries from PJSC Stalkanat will not be subject to an AD cash deposit requirement until further notice. The new rate takes effect Nov. 16.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on cased pencils from China (A-570-827). Commerce continued its preliminary finding that three companies subject to this administrative review are part of the China-wide entity, with a rate of 114.9%, because none filed a separate rate application or a separate rate certification. Commerce will assess antidumping duties at this rate on subject merchandise from the three companies entered Dec. 1, 2021, through Nov. 30, 2022. A 114.9% AD cash deposit rate takes effect for each of the three companies on Nov. 16, the date these final results were published in the Federal Register.
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin opposes NetChoice’s Oct. 27 motion for a “preemptive” discovery stay pending the resolution of NetChoice’s forthcoming dispositive motion in NetChoice’s constitutional challenge to SB-396, the Arkansas age-verification Social Media Safety Act (see 2310300008), said Griffin’s opposition Monday (docket 5:23-cv-05105) in U.S. District Court for Western Arkansas in Fayetteville. NetChoice won a preliminary injunction Aug. 31 blocking Griffin’s enforcement of SB-396 (see 2309010024). A “hypothetical, unfiled motion isn’t grounds for a discovery stay,” said Griffin’s opposition. It’s not clear how the court “could even assess the likelihood of success of an unseen motion and determine that’s grounds for a discovery stay,” it said. That’s unless, as NetChoice apparently believes, the issuance of a preliminary injunction “always warrants a stay of discovery,” it said. That’s an “odd position,” since a preliminary injunction “is supposed to freeze things in place while the parties proceed with the case,” it said. That’s why the court should reject NetChoice’s motion, it said.
The Commerce Department is recognizing a name change for a South Korean company for the purposes of antidumping duties on certain corrosion-resistant steel products (A-580-878) from South Korea, upholding its preliminary finding (see 2309280037) in the final results of a changed circumstances review. The agency found that post-corporate reorganization Dongkuk Coated Metal Co., Ltd. (Dongkuk CM) is the successor-in-interest to the pre-reorganization Dongkuk Steel Mill Co., Ltd. entity (Old Dongkuk Steel). The agency found that Dongkuk CM continues to operate as the same business entity despite the change in name and some internal reorganization. Commerce said Dongkuk CM will inherit the AD cash deposit rate assigned to Old Dongkuk Steel for subject merchandise.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the unopposed Nov. 1 motion of California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) extending to Dec. 13 his opening brief deadline in the appeal of the district court's Sept. 18 order granting NetChoice’s motion for a preliminary injunction to block him from enforcing the state’s Age Appropriate Design Code social media law on constitutional grounds (see 2310190030), said a clerk’s order Tuesday (docket 23-2969). The extension was granted with only a day to spare before Bonta’s opening brief previously would have been due. Under the amended briefing schedule, NetChoice’s answering brief is now due Feb. 7, and Bonta’s optional reply brief is due March 13, said the order. Deputy California AG Elizabeth Watson’s Oct. 18 COVID-19 diagnosis prompted Bonta’s office to ask for the extension (see 2311020001).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Nov. 14 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 issued an antidumping duty order on freight rail couplers from Mexico (A-201-857). The order sets permanent antidumping duties, which will remain in place unless revoked by Commerce in a sunset or changed circumstances review. Commerce will now begin conducting annual administrative reviews, if requested, to determine final assessments of AD on importers and make changes to cash deposit rates.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Nov. 14 on AD/CVD proceedings:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Nov. 13, 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.