The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 3 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Plaintiffs’ factual allegations “fall well short of pleading a plausible claim” under the First Amendment or Texas’ social media law HB 20, said Meta Monday in a reply in support of its motion to dismiss (docket 3:23-cv-00217) a freedom of speech suit in U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Dallas. It also filed a reply Monday in support of its motion to transfer the case to California.
California’s connections-based method “is directly at odds” with the FCC’s revenue-based mechanism for USF contribution, T-Mobile and subsidiaries argued at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In an opening brief Monday, they urged the court to reverse a U.S. District Court for Northern California decision and direct the lower court to issue a preliminary injunction against the California Public Utilities Commission decision that took effect April 1.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the May 2 Federal Register on the following AD/CVD injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 2 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register May 2 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 its antidumping duty administrative review on 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (R-134a) from China (A-570-044). The agency preliminarily assigned the one mandatory respondent under review -- Zhejiang Sanmei Chemical Ind. Co., Ltd., and its affiliated companies Jiangsu Sanmei Chemical Ind. Co., Ltd., and Fujian Qingliu Dongying Chemical Ind. Co., Ltd. -- an AD rate of 147.08%. Zhejiang Quhua Fluor-Chemistry Co., Ltd. was assigned to the China-wide entity rate of 167.02%, after the company failed to submit an application for a separate rate.
The Commerce Department is setting new antidumping duty cash deposit requirements for imports of freight rail couplers from Mexico (A-201-857), after finding sales at less than fair value by Mexican producers in the preliminary determination of its AD investigation. Suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements take effect for entries on or after May 3, 2023.
The Commerce Department properly hit Greek exporter Corinth Pipeworks Pipe Industry with a 41.04% total adverse facts available antidumping duty rate, given that its reported costs were not reconciled to its normal books and records, the Court of International Trade ruled. Judge Leo Gordon said the law does not require Commerce to respond to Corinth's arguments on its use of total AFA, which the agency employed in the first instance amid the final results of the first administrative review of the antidumping duty order on large diameter welded pipe from Greece.
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act doesn't preempt the California Age Appropriate Design Code (AADC), which addresses risks to children arising from data management practices of social media platforms, said a Friday amicus brief (docket 5:22-cv-08861) filed in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose. The Electronic Privacy Information Center, Reset Tech, Facebook whistleblower Frances Hausen and a bipartisan roster of former elected and appointed state and federal government officials signed onto the brief.