The International Trade Commission will conduct a concurrent investigation to determine whether imports of dumped and subsidized aluminum extrusions are injuring U.S. industry. If the ITC finds no injury in its preliminary injury determination, due Nov. 20, the investigations will immediately end (see 2310300050).
Further proceedings in the district court “will likely be stayed” pending the resolution of California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s (D) interlocutory appeal of the lower court's Sept. 18 decision granting NetChoice’s motion for a preliminary injunction to block Bonta from enforcing AB-2273, the state’s Age Appropriate Design Code, said Bonta’s mediation question Friday (docket 23-2969) in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The main issues on appeal are whether online businesses’ collection and use of children’s data is protected speech under the First Amendment, whether the district court “correctly applied scrutiny to the provisions it analyzed” under the First Amendment, and whether the district court “correctly applied California severability principles in determining that the law was not severable,” said the questionnaire. Bonta’s opening brief in his appeal is due Nov. 15 (see 2310260013).
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Oct. 31 on AD/CVD proceedings:
U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks for Arkansas in Fayetteville should vacate his Nov. 21 deadline for initial disclosures in NetChoice’s constitutional challenge to SB-396, the Arkansas age-verification Social Media Safety Act, and stay discovery in the case, pending resolution of NetChoice’s forthcoming dispositive motion, said NetChoice’s brief Friday (docket 5:23-cv-05105) in support of its motion to stay.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Oct. 30 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 and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Oct. 30 on AD/CVD proceedings:
A SpaceX lawsuit challenging an export control-related hiring discrimination case against the company would succeed if not for a "late-breaking development" in the form of an interim final rule imposed "seemingly in direct response" to SpaceX's preliminary injunction motion, the company argued. SpaceX said that even the government admits that it would lose the case without the interim final rule, which SpaceX told a federal district court in Brownsville, Texas, is illegal (Space Exploration Technologies v. Carol Bell, S.D. Tex. # 23-00137).
Comments are due Nov. 13 to the Commerce Department on the scope of coverage of its newly begun antidumping duty investigations on aluminum extrusions from China, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam (A-570-158, A-301-806, A-247-004, A-331-804, A-533-920, A-560-840, A-475-846, A-580- 918, A-557-826, A-201-860, A-583-874, A-549-847, A-489-850, A-520-810, A-552-837), and countervailing duty investigations on aluminum extrusions from China, Indonesia, Mexico and Turkey (C-570-159, C-560-841, C-201-861, C-489-851).
Preliminary numbers for the 2023 NAB Show New York indicate 12,231attendees, a 28% increase over the prior year, said NAB in a news release Thursday. The event, held in the Javits Center, also featured 270 exhibitors. The 2024 show is slated for Oct. 8-10, the release said.
The Commerce Department is beginning an anti-circumvention inquiry on allegations that imports of a hydrofluorocarbon blend imported from Mexico that is made using Chinese components is circumventing the antidumping duty order on hydrofluorocarbon blends from China (A-570-028), the agency said in a notice released Oct. 27.