The Commerce Department will retroactively suspend liquidation and require countervailing duty cash deposits for an exporter of tin mill products from China (C-570-151), it said in a notice released July 19. Commerce made a new finding of critical circumstances for Baoshan Iron. As a result, Commerce will direct CBP to suspend liquidation and require CVD cash deposits at the rate set in its preliminary determination (see 2306260021) for any unliquidated entries from Baoshan Iron on or after March 28, 2023 (i.e., 90 days prior to Commerce’s June 26 preliminary determination). Suspension of liquidation for Jingtang Iron and the "all others" exporters remains in effect for entries on or after June 26.
The Commerce Department is finalizing its determination that imports of hardwood plywood from Vietnam made from Chinese and third-country inputs are circumventing antidumping and countervailing duties on hardwood plywood from China (A-570-051/C-570-052).
In 82 pages of “detailed factual findings,” U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty for Western Louisiana in Monroe found that federal officials “have covertly injected themselves into the content-moderation decisions of all major social-media platforms,” said the Republican attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri and the individual plaintiffs in their brief Monday (docket 23-30445) at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in opposition to the government’s emergency motion to stay Doughty’s July 4 preliminary injunction. The New Civil Liberties Alliance also signed the brief.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a Friday order (docket 23-30445), scheduled Aug. 10 oral argument in New Orleans on DOJ’s appeal of the July 4 preliminary injunction that blocked dozens of Biden administration officials from conversing with social media companies about content moderation (see 2307060004). The 5th Circuit, in granting DOJ a temporary stay in the injunction Friday, ordered DOJ’s appeal deferred to the oral argument merits panel that receives the case. DOJ’s opening brief in the appeal is due July 25, with the responding brief from the Republican attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri, the lead plaintiffs in the case, due Aug. 4, said Friday’s order. DOJ’s optional reply brief is due 21 days later, it said.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the July 18 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 published notices in the Federal Register July 18 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 and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices July 18 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department's use of alternative characteristics of superabsorbent polymers supplied by antidumping respondent LG Chem to set control numbers (CONNUMs) in an AD investigation should be remanded, The Ad Hoc Coalition of American SAP Producers said in a July 14 motion for judgment at the Court of International Trade. The coalition said the department's use of unverified and unrequested alternative superabsorbent polymer characteristics contravened an established practice (The Ad Hoc Coalition of American SAP Producers v. U.S., CIT # 23-00010).
If allowed to go into effect, SB-396, Arkansas’ social media age verification law (see 2307100005), will require all users -- including adults -- to verify their age before they can access their social media accounts, or create new ones, said a Friday amici curiae brief (docket 5:23-cv-05105) filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in support of NetChoice’s motion for preliminary injunction in U.S. District Court for Western Arkansas in Fayetteville.
The Commerce Department "misapplied the statutory standard" for picking surrogate countries in the 2018-19 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on frozen fish fillets from Vietnam by excluding candidate countries that have a comparable level of economic development, the Court of International Trade ruled in a July 7 opinion made public July 17.