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The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Oct. 18 on AD/CVD proceedings:

The Commerce Department is recognizing the name change of an Indian company for the purposes of an antidumping duty order on frozen warmwater shrimp from India (A-533-840), it said in a notice of the final results of a changed circumstances review. The agency confirmed its preliminary finding that Highland Agro Food Private Limited (HA Food) is the successor-in-interest to Highland Agro, saying that HA Food continues to operate as the same business entity despite the corporate restructuring to a limited liability partnership and name change. Commerce said that effective Oct. 18, HA Food now inherits the AD rate assigned to Highland Agro, which is currently 3.88%, the review average rate, assigned in the AD review for 2021-22, which went into effect Sept. 1 (see 2308310044). (For a summary of the preliminary results of this changed circumstances review, see 2308290011.)

The Commerce Department will consider whether imports of aluminum wire and cable completed in Cambodia, South Korea and Vietnam using inputs manufactured in China are covered by antidumping and countervailing duties on aluminum wire and cable from China (A-570-095, C-570-096), it said in a notice released Oct. 18 launching scope inquiies and anti-circumvention inquiries on each country.

The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on electrolytic manganese dioxide from China (A-570-919). The agency said it preliminarily determined that the only company under review, Duracell (China) Limited, isn't eligible for a separate rate, assigning it to the China-wide entity, which has an AD rate of 149.92%. If Commerce continues this finding in its final results, it will assess AD on subject merchandise imported from Duracell China during the period Oct. 1, 2021, through Sept. 30, 2022, at that 149.92% rate. A new 149.92% cash deposit rate for Duracell China would take effect upon publication of the final results of this review in the Federal Register.

The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on large diameter welded pipe South Korea (A-580-897). These final results will be used to set final assessments of antidumping duties on importers for subject merchandise from 23 companies under review entered May 1, 2021, through April 30, 2022.

Brazil, Canada and Mexico recently announced antidumping and countervailing duty actions and decisions on certain products from mainland China, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council reported Oct. 16.

Three online platform plaintiffs aren’t likely to succeed on the merits of their claim that the requirements in Section 394-ccc, New York’s hateful conduct law, infringe on their First Amendment rights, and the district court’s preliminary injunction blocking New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) from enforcing the statute should be reversed, said James’ office in an Oct. 10 reply brief (docket 23-356) in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Multiple amicus briefs days earlier urged the 2nd Circuit to affirm the injunction (see 2309260001).

The U.S. failed to fulfill its "simple but fundamental obligation to explain itself" in a lawsuit brought by a Chinese printer cartridge maker challenging its addition to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List, the company, Ninestar Corp., said in a reply brief supporting its motion for a preliminary injunction against the listing. Ninestar dubbed the government's response to the PI motion a series of "distractions and desperate reaches," including the U.S. claim that the Court of International Trade lacks jurisdiction because a presumptive ban on Ninestar's goods is not an "embargo" (Ninestar Corp. v. United States, CIT # 23-00182).

Social media companies, such as Google, have turned the free exchange of ideas “on its head,” said independent 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a Friday reply brief (docket 3:23-cv-03880) in support of his motion for a preliminary injunction against Google to prevent it from removing his videos from YouTube. Kennedy is suing Google in a free speech suit after YouTube removed anti-vaccine videos of Kennedy’s that violated its medical misinformation policy.

The U.S. District Court for Connecticut in New Haven “correctly held” Aug. 30 that all preliminary injunction factors weigh in Charter Communications’ favor when it instructed defendant Bridger Mahlum to show cause why an emergency preliminary injunction shouldn’t be issued, said Charter’s reply brief Friday (docket 3:23-cv-01106) in support of that injunction.