A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website June 22, 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.
FTC and Microsoft attorneys, in opening statements of Thursday’s evidentiary hearing on the commission’s motion for a preliminary injunction to block Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard buy, spent considerable time debating the fate of Activision’s signature Call of Duty franchise on Microsoft’s rival Sony PlayStation platform if the transaction goes through. The hearing is scheduled to continue over portions of the next four days (see 230615000).
The Commerce Department has released amended final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on certain steel racks and parts thereof from China (A-570-088]), to reflect a correction of its calculations for rates for entries of subject merchandise during the period Sept. 1, 2020, through Aug. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department is beginning new antidumping duty investigations on paper shopping bags from Cambodia, China, Colombia, India, Malaysia, Portugal, Taiwan, Turkey and Vietnam, as well as new countervailing duty investigations on paper shopping bags from China and India, it said in a fact sheet June 21. The underlying petition was filed May 31 (see 2306010050). The International Trade Commission is scheduled to make its preliminary injury determinations by July 17. These AD/CVD investigations will continue only if the ITC finds injury. International Trade Today will provide more details upon publication of the initiation notices in the Federal Register.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website June 21, 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.
Amazon Marketplace seller AuKing Direct is “purposefully and deceptively inflating the brightness specification of its projectors,” alleges competitor Epson in a Tuesday fraud complaint (docket 1:23-cv-11367) in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in Boston.
The U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco will provide a public audio-only feed of the evidentiary hearing on the FTC’s motion for a preliminary injunction to block Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard buy, said a text-only clerk’s notice Tuesday (docket 3:23-cv-02880). The hearing begins 8:30 a.m. PDT Thursday, and is scheduled to run for portions of five days (see 2306150001).
The House of Representatives passed a bill that signs off on the Biden administration's preliminary free trade agreement with Taiwan but is widely seen as a message to the White House that it has overstepped its authority by cutting out Congress.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is considering scheduling oral argument for October in San Francisco in T-Mobile’s appeal of the district court’s March 31 preliminary injunction denial to block the agency’s USF contribution overhaul from taking effect as it did April 1 (see 2305160003), said a text-only entry Monday (docket 23-15490). U.S. Magistrate Judge Lauren Beeler granted T-Mobile’s unopposed motion last month to stay her review of the overhaul until the 9th Circuit resolves the appeal (see 2305260025).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register June 21 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):