World Trade Organization members negatively affected by national security-related trade restrictions may be able to impose retaliatory measures as a way to address the U.S. gripe with the body's review of national security issues, former Office of the U.S. Trade Representative counsel Warren Maruyama and former WTO deputy director-general Alan Wolff said. In a working paper released by the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Maruyama and Wolff propose a compromise to the U.S. position that national security claims are nonreviewable.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on steel concrete reinforcing bar from Turkey (C-489-819). The agency calculated new CVD cash deposit rates for three Turkish companies. It determined that 21 other companies subject to the review had no shipments during the review period, and rescinded the administrative review of those companies. These final results will be used to set final assessments of CVD on importers for entries in calendar year 2020.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website May 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.
“Suppose that a federal national security agency teamed up with private research institutions" to establish a "mass-surveillance and mass-censorship program," posited Monday's reply memorandum (docket 3:22-cv-01213) from the Republican attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri in support of their motion for a preliminary injunction against federal officials and agencies. That's a hypothetical that's "directly analogous to the facts in this case," said the filing in U.S. District Court for Western Louisiana in Monroe.
The Commerce Department issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on nonrefillable steel cylinders from India (A-533-912/C-533-913). The AD investigation covers entries April 1, 2022, through March 31, 2023, and the CVD investigation covers entries Jan. 1 through Dec. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping duty investigations on brass rod from Brazil, India, Israel, Mexico, South Korea and South Africa (A-351-859, A-533-915, A-508-814, A-201-858, A-580-916, A-791-828), and its countervailing duty investigations on brass rod from India, Israel and South Korea (C-533-916, C-508-815, C-580-917). The CVD investigation covers entries for the calendar year 2022. The AD investigations cover entries April 1, 2022, through March 31, 3023.
California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) violates the First Amendment, “impermissibly regulates across state lines” and “is preempted by two federal statutes,” said NetChoice’s Friday reply (docket 5:22-cv-08861) in support of its motion for preliminary injunction in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register May 22 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 issued antidumping duty orders on preserved mushrooms from Poland (A-455-806), Spain (A-469-825) and the Netherlands (A-421-815). The orders detail a “gap period” of May 2-16, 2023, of no AD duty liability.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 22 on AD/CVD proceedings: