Georgia tagged nearly $15 million for broadband expansion in a second round of Capital Projects Fund grants, Gov. Brian Kemp (R) said Monday. The preliminary grant awards are meant to connect more than 3,500 locations, the governor’s office said. Windstream received more than $8.5 million combined for projects in three counties. Georgia city Colquitt got the rest, winning nearly $6.3 million for a project in Miller County.
Trailer wheels manufactured by Asia Wheel in Thailand were incorrectly ruled to be within the scope of antidumping and countervailing duty orders on certain steel wheels from China, U.S. importers Trailstar and TexTrail said in a pair of June 9 complaints at the Court of International Trade. Both complaints asked the court to find Commerce's final scope ruling illegal and to remand the ruling to the department (Trailstar v. U.S., CIT # 23-00097, and Textrail v. U.S., CIT # 23-00099).
The board of directors of the U.S. Export-Import Bank approved a preliminary commitment to lend $300 million to the government of Costa Rica’s Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad & Subsidiaries for equipment and services from trusted vendors to deploy a 5G network, the bank said Friday. Ex-Im "financing can play a key role in ensuring 5G telecommunications infrastructure is built and supported by trusted vendors,” said President and Chair Reta Jo Lewis.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on circular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Thailand (A-549-502). Commerce calculated an AD rate of 0.71% for the only company under review, Thai Premium Pipe Co. Ltd. In these final results, Commerce will set importer-specific rates for subject merchandise from Thai Premium Pipe entered during the period March 1, 2021, through Feb. 28, 2022. The new 0.71% AD cash deposit rate for Thai Premium Pipe and its affiliates took effect June 9, the date these final results were published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on circular welded non-alloy steel pipe from South Korea (A-580-809). These final results will be used to set final assessments of antidumping duties on importers for subject merchandise entered Nov. 1, 2020, through Oct. 31, 2021.
The Commerce Department published the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on chlorinated isocyanurates from China (C-570-991). The agency calculated new CV duty cash deposit rates for the Chinese producers and exporters listed below. These final results will be used to set final assessments of CVD on importers for entries Jan. 1, 2020, through Dec. 31, 2020.
The Court of International Trade granted the Commerce Department's request for a remand to reconsider its calculations of constructed value, CV profit cap and constructed export price profit for countervailing duty respondent Hyundai Steel in the 2019-20 review of the CVD order on oil country tubular goods from South Korea. Hyundai claimed that Commerce's use of exporter SeAH Steel Corp.'s third-country sales data for calculating these figures unreasonably used data that failed to represent Hyundai's actual experience.
The FTC filed suit Monday to block Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard buy, seeking both a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction to enjoin Microsoft from consummating the transaction. The redacted complaint (docket 3:23-cv-02880) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco said both remedies were necessary because Microsoft and Activision have “represented” that they may consummate the deal “at any time without any further notice” to the FTC.
The Commerce Department will soon suspend liquidation and impose antidumping duty cash deposit requirements on imports of gas-powered pressure washers from Vietnam, it said in a fact sheet issued June 9. Commerce set AD rates at 225.65% for all Vietnamese exporters, the agency said as it announced its preliminary determination in its ongoing AD investigation. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after the date of publication of the preliminary determination in the Federal Register, which should occur in the coming days.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website June 8, 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.