The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices June 15 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on hot-rolled steel flat products from South Korea (A-580-883). Rates calculated in this review will be used to set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise from 48 producers and exporters that was entered Oct. 1, 2021, through Sept. 30, 2022.
The Commerce Department recently issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on certain carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate from Belgium (A-423-812), calculating an AD duty rate of 1.15% for Industeel Belgium S.A. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from Industeel Belgium entered between May 1, 2021, through April 30, 2022, will be assessed AD duties at importer specific rates, and future entries from Industeel Belgium would be subject to a 1.15% AD duty cash deposit rate effective on the publication date of the final results.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on circular welded carbon-quality steel pipe from Oman (A-523-812). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers for subject merchandise entered during two review periods -- Dec. 1, 2019, through Nov. 30, 2020, and Dec. 1, 2020, through Nov. 30, 2021.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on steel concrete reinforcing bar from Mexico (A-201-844). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered Nov. 1, 2020, through Oct. 31, 2021.
Fact discovery cutoff is planned for Dec. 12 in plaintiff Chun Wu’s Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action against National Tax Advisory Services, said a scheduling order Monday (docket 1:23-cv-00679) in U.S. District Court for Colorado in Denver. A final pretrial conference is set for March 14 in anticipation of a three-day jury trial, said the order, without giving a set trial date. Wu alleges the defendant violated the TCPA when it continued to place unsolicited and unauthorized calls playing prerecorded voices using technological equipment intended to spam consumers with its advertising. The defendant denies any TCPA wrongdoing and contends it doesn’t make marketing calls without appropriate consent. It also asserts it follows the law, and that any calls to Wu’s number at issue in the case were made lawfully. The parties haven’t engaged in “substantive settlement negotiations,” though they had “very preliminary” settlement talks, said the scheduling order. Wu will agree to consider mediation with a mutually selected mediator “should the negotiations occur and reach an impasse and the parties agree that mediation would be beneficial,” it said. The defendant “is open to mediation as well” as the case progresses, it said.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on welded stainless pressure pipe from India (A-533-867). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers for subject merchandise entered Nov. 1, 2020, through Oct. 31, 2021.
The Commerce Department released its preliminary affirmative antidumping determination June 14 that gas powered pressure washers from Vietnam (A-552-008) are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. Commerce found “critical circumstances” for all Vietnamese companies, and will retroactively suspend liquidation and impose AD cash deposit requirements for all subject merchandise as of March 17, 2023.
Microsoft’s past conduct “provides a preview” of a combined Microsoft/Activision if the tech giant consummates its acquisition of the video games company, said the FTC’s Monday complaint (docket 3:23-cv-02880) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco, seeking a temporary restraining order against the deal. "Microsoft and Activision have represented ... that they may consummate the Proposed Acquisition at any time without any further notice" to the commission, said the redacted complaint.
NTIA heard a variety of comments, positive and negative, on the viability of the citizens broadband radio service as a model for future spectrum sharing. Comments, posted by the agency Tuesday, were due May 31 on an NTIA report on dynamic sharing and the three-tier sharing model offered by CBRS (see 2305010063). The report was by the agency’s Colorado lab, the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS).