The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Sept. 12 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Chinese printer cartridge maker Ninestar Corp., along with eight of its Zhuhai-based subsidiaries, opposed the U.S.'s motion to extend the time to file a response to their request for a preliminary injunction in a case against their addition to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List. Ninestar said the government, in asking for a total of 62 more days, failed to show "good cause" for needing a delay to address "even one element of the preliminary injunction test" (Ninestar Corporation v. United States, CIT # 23-00182).
DOJ attorneys convinced a three-judge 5th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court panel, all Republicans, that U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty’s July 4 injunction was overbroad and vague when it barred dozens of Biden administration officials from pressuring social media platforms to moderate unfavorable content. But the panel’s opinion late Friday (docket 23-30445), paring down the injunction and vacating it outright against officials from three federal agencies, left intact the restrictions on the White House, the Office of the Surgeon General, the FBI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Commerce Department on Sept. 7 published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on frozen fish fillets from Vietnam (A-552-801). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise from the companies remaining under review entered August 2021 through July 2022.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on seamless carbon and alloy steel standard, line, and pressure pipe from Ukraine (A-823-819). The agency preliminarily calculated a 4.99% AD rate for the only company under review, Interpipe Ukraine LLC and its affiliates PJSC Interpipe Niznedneprovsky Tube Rolling Plant LLC, Interpipe Niko Tube and Interpipe Europe S.A. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from Interpipe and its affiliates entered Feb. 10, 2021, through July 31, 2022, will be assessed AD at importer-specific rates. Any changes to rates for Interpipe and its affiliates would take effect on the date of publication in the Federal Register of the final results of this review, currently due in January.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of a countervailing duty administrative review of metal lockers from China (C-570-134). This review covers subject merchandise from the exporters under review entered during the period Dec. 14, 2020, through Dec. 31, 2021.
The Commerce Department on Sept. 7 published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on passenger vehicle and light truck tires from China (A-570-016). In the final results of this review, Commerce may set assessment rates for subject merchandise from the companies under review that was entered August 2021 through July 2022.
DOJ, in an emergency motion Monday, asked the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for a partial stay of the social media preliminary injunction entered July 4 by the U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, to the extent that Doughty’s injunction is now “inconsistent” with the 5th Circuit’s Friday ruling, pending the issuance of the 5th Circuit’s mandate. The government, in the alternative, asked the 5th Circuit to issue its mandate immediately, said the emergency motion. The mandate without the court’s intervention isn’t scheduled to issue until Oct. 31, it said.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Sept. 8 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 has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on small diameter graphite electrodes from China (A-570-929). Commerce calculated an AD rate of 30.14% for the sole mandatory respondent, Fushun Jinly Petrochemical Carbon Co., Ltd., a slight increase from the preliminary determination of 24.95%. Subject merchandise from Fushun Jinly entered between Feb. 1, 2021, and Jan. 31, 2022, will be liquidated at importer-specific rates. Changes to cash deposit rates from these final results take effect Sept. 11.