The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of a countervailing duty administrative review of finished carbon steel flanges (C-533-872). This review covers subject merchandise from the exporters under review entered during the period Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2021.
The Commerce Department is amending the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into modules, from China (C-570-980). The amendments are to correct ministerial errors in the CVD rates of two mandatory respondents, which in turn changed the review average CVD rate assigned to the non-individually examined companies. These final results will be used to set final assessments of CVD on importers for entries between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2020.
The Court of International Trade on Aug. 16 denied a motion by importer Wanxiang America to dismiss a penalty case related to its alleged misclassification and failure to pay associated antidumping duties on tapered roller bearings.
The U.S. Supreme Court should grant the cert petitions of NetChoice and the Computer & Communications Industry Association challenging the restrictions in the Florida and Texas social media platforms’ content moderation laws on First Amendment grounds, said Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar in an amicus brief Monday (dockets 22-277 and 22-555).
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on hot-rolled steel flat products from South Korea (A-580-883). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers of subject merchandise entered Oct. 1, 2021, through Sept. 30, 2022.
The Commerce Department is finalizing its determination not to impose antidumping duties on circular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Vietnam and circular welded non-alloy steel pipe from Vietnam using hot-rolled steel made in Taiwan, it said in a notice Aug. 9. The agency said in the final determinations of an anti-circumvention inquiry that imports of the merchandise are not circumventing AD/CVD orders on circular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Taiwan (A-583-008) and circular welded non-alloy steel pipe from Taiwan (A-583-814). Commerce also found no circumvention in its preliminary determination, so no suspension of liquidation or cash deposit requirements have been imposed as a result of the inquiry (see 2304110056).
Montana’s TikTok ban, SB-419, is “both unprecedented and unconstitutional” and “a direct restriction on protected expression and association,” said an ACLU and Electronic Freedom Foundation amicus brief Friday (docket 9:23-cv-00061) in support of the plaintiffs' motions for a preliminary injunction to block Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen (R) from enforcing the statute when it takes effect Jan. 1 (see 2307070002).
The Commerce Department is setting new antidumping duty cash deposit requirements for imports of gas powered pressure washers from China (A-570-148), after finding imports of the product are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value in the preliminary determination of its AD investigation. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements generally took effect Aug. 3, but Commerce is making the suspension of liquidation and AD cash deposits retroactive to approximately May 5 for some Chinese companies.
The Commerce Department issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on pea protein from China (A-570-154/C-570-155). The CVD investigation covers entries Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2022. The AD investigation covers entries Jan. 1 - June 30, 2023.
The Commerce Department illegally expanded the scope of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on truck wheels from China to include truck wheels made in a third country using either Chinese-origin rims or Chinese-origin discs, but not both, exporter Asia Wheel Co., Ltd., said in an Aug. 11 complaint at the Court of International Trade. Since Asia Wheel makes truck wheels using only Chinese-origin discs, the agency illegally included these goods under the scope of the orders, the company argued (Asia Wheel Co. v. United States, CIT # 23-00143).