A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website Sept. 27, 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.
Moving manufacturing from China to another Asian country is not the way to "get ahead of the game" in avoiding forced labor detentions, said Amanda Levitt, a Sandler Travis lawyer, while speaking during a virtual Sourcemap conference on supply chain transparency. Levitt said that tracing falls apart for most firms at the Tier 2 level, and that's not enough. Many of the items identified by nongovernmental organizations as being produced with Uyghur forced labor -- cotton, aluminum, PVC -- are raw materials much deeper than tier 2.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Sept. 27 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Sept. 27 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):
Charter Communications renewed its request for a temporary restraining order to enjoin Bridger Mahlum, its former director-state government affairs, from continuing his employment with BroadbandMT, a direct competitor, and keeping him from spilling Charter’s trade secrets, in its emergency motion Monday (docket 3:23-cv-01106) in U.S. District Court for Connecticut in New Haven.
New York’s hateful conduct law (Section 394-ccc) “intrudes on websites’ First Amendment rights in a pernicious way,” by using “vague terms” to define hate speech, and forces covered websites to publish a policy explaining how they will respond to and address complaints about that speech, said Santa Clara University law professor Eric Goldman and TechFreedom in an amicus brief Monday (docket 23-356) in the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals. They support the affirmation of the district court’s grant of a preliminary injunction blocking New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) from enforcing the law.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a surprise order Tuesday (docket 23-30445), withdrew its order of the previous day granting the petition of the Republican attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri for rehearing to reinstate federal officials from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the State Department to the social media injunction imposed on the White House, the surgeon general’s office, the FBI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (see 2309240002).
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on frozen warmwater shrimp from China (A-570-893). The agency found 139 companies did not demonstrate eligibility for a separate rate, and preliminarily assigned them to the China-wide entity with a rate of 112.81%. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from these 139 companies entered Feb. 1, 2022, through Jan. 31, 2023, will be assessed AD duties at that 112.81% rate. An AD duty cash deposit rate of 112.81% would take effect for these 139 companies upon publication of the final results of this review in the Federal Register. See the Appendix in Commerce's notice for a full list of these companies.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals scheduled in-person oral argument Dec. 6 at 9 a.m. PST in San Francisco in the FTC’s appeal to reverse the district court’s denial of its preliminary injunction to block Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard buy, said a text-only notice Friday (docket 23-15992). Counsel will have the option to appear in-person or remotely, and opting to appear remotely by video won’t require a motion “at this time,” said the notice. Each side will get 20 minutes of argument, said a 9th Circuit calendar entry.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Sept. 25 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):