The U.S.'s customs penalty suit against importer Wanxiang America Corp., a U.S. subsidiary of a Chinese manufacturing company, is a "money grab, plain and simple," Michael Roll, counsel for WXA, said during oral argument at the Court of International Trade on May 17. Roll said that because the U.S. is only seeking a penalty for WXA's entries from a company with a 92.84% dumping rate and not entries made before or after the ones at issue from a company with a zero percent rate, it is clear the government is trying to "grab the money" (United States v. Wanxiang America Corp., CIT # 22-00205).
U.S. District Court Judge Terry Doughty granted in part plaintiffs Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (R) and Missouri AG Andrew Bailey’s (R) motion requesting an extension to file their reply brief in support of their motion for a preliminary injunction in their freedom of speech lawsuit against President Joe Biden and nearly 70 government officials and agencies. The Tuesday filing (docket 3:22-cv-01213) in U.S. District Court for Western Louisiana in Monroe said plaintiffs may file a reply brief on or before Saturday, and the hearing will remain for May 26. In their Tuesday memorandum in opposition to plaintiffs' motion for an extension, defendants said plaintiffs’ requested extension of time “would substantially prejudice Defendants because it would result in virtually no time to review and analyze Plaintiffs’ reply brief” and related submissions before the May 26 preliminary injunction hearing (docket 3:22-cv-01213). Defendants are “constrained to oppose” plaintiffs’ motion, unless a short continuance of the preliminary injunction hearing is granted, they said.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register May 18 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 the antidumping duty administrative review on stilbenic optical brightening agents from Taiwan (A-583-848). Commerce preliminarily calculated an AD rate of 3.89% for Teh Fong Min International Co., Ltd. (TFM). Any changes to TFM's cash deposit rate would take effect on the publication date of the final results of this review. Once Commerce issues its final results, the agency will assess AD duties at importer-specific rates for entries of subject merchandise from TFM entered between May 1, 2021, and April 30, 2022, it said.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 18 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department issued a Federal Register notice on its recently initiated antidumping duty investigations on beltless steel shelving prepackaged for sale from India (A-533-914), Malaysia (A-557-824), Taiwan (A-583-871), Thailand (A-549-846) and Vietnam (A-552-835). The agency will determine whether imports of beltless steel shelving are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The investigations cover entries from India, Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand during the period April 1, 2022, through March 31, 2023, and entries from Vietnam during the period Oct. 1, 2022, through March 31, 2023.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website May 17, 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.
AST SpaceMobile is targeting Q1 2024 for launch of five of its Block 1 BlueBird satellites on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, it said in a call with analysts Monday as the company announced its Q1 2023 financial results. CEO Abel Avellan said each Block 1 satellite will have 10 times the direct-to-handset capacity of the company's BlueWalker 3 demonstration satellite, and its planned 25 Block 2 satellites will have 10 times the capacity of Block 1. The company said it's talking with a variety of launch operators about Block 2 launches. Avellan said AST has rough preliminary agreements and agreements of understanding with wireless carriers around the globe on use of AST service for supplemental coverage from space.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 17 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register May 17 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):