The Commerce Department published the preliminary results of its countervailing duty administrative review on certain collated steel staples from China (C-570-113). The agency preliminarily calculated a new CV duty rate for the Tianjin Hweschun Fasteners Mfg. Co. Ltd., the company selected for individual examination, and four companies not individually examined. The final results of this review will be used to set CV duty assessments on importers for subject merchandise entered during the calendar year of 2021.
The Commerce Department published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on chlorinated isocyanurates from China (A-570-898). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise from the two companies under review entered June 2021 through May 2022.
A motion last week by non-settling defendants to reconsider, vacate and/or stay orders on preliminary approval of settlements and notice in Local TV Advertising Antitrust Litigation shows “a fundamental misunderstanding of antitrust settlements and the approval and notice process” and should be denied, said local advertising plaintiffs’ response (docket 1:18-cv-06785) Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago. The June 26 motion by Tegna, Griffin Communications, Meredith, Sinclair, Gray Media, E.W. Scripps, Nexstar Media and Tribune Broadcasting, “which accuses the Court of failing to follow Seventh Circuit precedent and Rule 23 in preliminarily approving four settlements,” seeks to “trample on” the due process rights of settlement class members; “deprive settlement class members of valuable and timely cooperation” from settling defendants CBS, Fox, Cox Media and ShareBuilders; ignores the court’s prior ruling on the direct purchaser status of advertising agencies; and “asserts harm that is purely speculative and no different from that incurred by every other non-settling defendant in an antitrust case,” plaintiffs said. The non-settling defendants also moved the court last week for an order staying dissemination of notice to the settlement classes until the court has given non-settling defendants a chance to be heard on plaintiffs’ motion for preliminary approval of the proposed settlements. The movants, as non-settling defendants, “lack standing to object to the settlements, including certification of the settlement classes," said plaintiffs’ response. Even if movants could overcome the standing bar, they haven't identified “any manifest error by the court" that would warrant reconsideration of the preliminary approval and notice orders, nor have they identified hardship or inequity that would warrant a stay, it said. CBS, Fox, Cox Media and ShareBuilders agreed in May to a $48 million settlement with advertisers in the lawsuit stemming from a 2018 DOJ investigation of ad price collusion that arose during inquiries into the failed Sinclair/Tribune deal (see 2305300073).
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices July 7 on AD/CVD proceedings:
DOJ seeks a ruling by noon CDT Monday for U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty for Western Louisiana in Monroe to stay the preliminary injunction he ordered July 4 to bar most of the nearly 70 Biden administration defendants in the case brought by the Republican attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri from communicating with social media platforms about content moderation, said DOJ’s motion Thursday (docket 3:22-cv-01213).
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on glycine from Japan (A-588-878), calculating a zero percent AD rate for Yuki Gosei Kogyo Co., Ltd./Nagase & Co., Ltd. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from Yuki Gosei /Nagase & Co. entered between June 1, 2021, and May 31, 2022, will not be assessed AD duties, and future entries from Yuki Gosei /Nagase & Co. would not be subject to an AD cash deposit requirement until further notice.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on glycine from India (A-533-883). Rates calculated in this review will be used to set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise from three producers and exporters that was entered June 1, 2021, through May 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative reviews on cold-drawn mechanical tubing of carbon and alloy steel from India (A-533-873) and Italy (A-475-838). Rates calculated in this review will be used to set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise from 46 producers and exporters that was entered June 1, 2021, through May 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on tapered roller bearings from China (A-570-601). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise from the seven companies under review entered June 1, 2021, through May 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of its antidumping duty administrative reviews on common alloy aluminum sheet from Croatia (A-891-001) and Slovenia (A-856-001). These final results will be used to set final assessments of antidumping duties on importers for subject merchandise from Croatia and Slovenia entered Oct. 15, 2020, through March 31, 2022.