Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., objected to a June 23 Senate motion that could have allowed the chamber to expedite procedures for a potential vote on a U.S.-Taiwan trade bill passed by the House a day earlier. Cotton objected to a unanimous consent request put forward by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., saying the Senate “should not be ramming through such agreements” while lawmakers are still “studying this matter.”
The Commerce Department issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping duty investigations on paper shopping bags from Cambodia, China, Colombia, India, Malaysia, Portugal, Taiwan, Turkey and Vietnam (A-555-002, A-570-152, A-301-805, A-533-917, A-557-825, A-471-808, A-583-872, A-489- 849, A-552-836), and its countervailing duty investigations on paper shopping bags from China and India (C-570-153, C-533-918). The CVD investigation covers entries for the calendar year 2022. The AD investigations for Cambodia, Colombia, India, Malaysia, Portugal, Taiwan and Turkey cover entries April 1, 2022, through March 31, 3023, and for China and Vietnam they cover entries Oct. 1, 2022, through March 31, 2023.
It was "not appropriate" for the Commerce Department to conclude that price differences between an Emirati exporter's sales across four quarters were due to differential pricing, several Emirati producers and exporters of circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe said in a June 22 complaint at the Court of International Trade (Universal Tube and Plastic Industries v. U.S., CIT # 23-00113).
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website June 23, 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.
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer took the stand Friday in U.S. District Court for Northern California on the second day of the evidentiary hearing on the FTC’s motion for a preliminary injunction to block Microsoft’s Activision buy (see 2306220070). Under direct examination from FTC lead attorney James Weingarten, Spencer testified he views Sony PlayStation as hostile to Xbox’s survival, and acknowledged participating in internal Microsoft discussions about withholding Activision content from PlayStation if the deal goes through, though he said he couldn’t recall specific conversations.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register June 23 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 preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on polyethylene terephthalate film, sheet and strip from Taiwan (A-583-837), calculating a zero percent AD rate for Nan Ya Plastics Corp. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from Nan Ya entered between July 1, 2021, and June 30, 2022, will not be assessed AD duties, and future entries from Nan Ya would not be subject to an AD cash deposit requirement until further notice.
The Commerce Department has issued the final results of two antidumping duty administrative reviews on cold-drawn mechanical tubing of carbon and alloy steel from India (A-533-873) with respect to Goodluck India Limited. Commerce set an AD rate of 1.59% for subject merchandise from Goodluck entered between Nov. 22, 2017, and May 31, 2019, and an AD rate of 1.39% for subject merchandise from Goodluck entered between June 1, 2019, and May 31, 2020. The rates are unchanged from the preliminary results. The goods will be liquidated at importer-specific assessment rates. The new 1.39% AD cash deposit rate for Goodluck takes effect June 26, the scheduled date of publication for these final results in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices June 23 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Plaintiffs Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Children’s Health Defense “piggyback off the filings in Missouri v. Biden,” said defendants’ opposition (docket 3:23-cv-00381) to Kennedy’s Tuesday motion for preliminary injunction in a freedom of speech case against nearly 70 federal officials in U.S. District Court for Western Louisiana in Monroe.