The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from China (A-570-914). The agency assigned the only company under review, Hangzhou Ailong Metal Product Co., Ltd., to the China-wide entity, with an AD rate of 255.07%, after the agency said it did not receive a separate rate application from Ailong. If these preliminary results are adopted unchanged, Commerce will in its final results assess AD at that 255.07% rate for importers of subject merchandise from Ailong entered Aug. 1, 2021, through July 31, 2022. A cash deposit rate of 255.07% would take effect for Ailong upon publication of the final results in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department extended the deadline to issue its final determinations in the anti-circumvention inquiries concerning solar cells from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, until Aug. 17. In a memo dated April 26, Jose Rivera, international trade compliance analyst at Commerce, said that "good cause exists" to give the agency more time, including the "numerous complex methodological issues for which Commerce requires more time to analyze." Rivera added that the agency received around 20 briefs from interested parties in the inquiries.
The Commerce Department will soon impose antidumping duty cash deposit requirements on imports of freight rail couplers from Mexico, it said in a fact sheet issued April 27 announcing its preliminary determination in the AD investigation. Commerce set an AD rate of 47.82% for all Mexican exporters, it said. AD suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after the date of publication of the preliminary determinations in the Federal Register, which should occur in the coming days. Commerce already suspended liquidation and began requiring cash deposits in concurrent antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on freight rail couplers from Mexico (see 2303020035 and 2303100057).
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website April 27, 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.
The Commerce Department extended the deadline to issue its final determinations in the anti-circumvention inquiries concerning solar cells from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, until Aug. 17. In a memo dated April 26, Jose Rivera, international trade compliance analyst at Commerce, said that "good cause exists" to give the agency more time, including the "numerous complex methodological issues for which Commerce requires more time to analyze." Rivera added that the agency received around 20 briefs from interested parties in the inquiries.
U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty for Western Louisiana in Monroe granted Children’s Health Defense's (CHD) unopposed motion Tuesday (docket 3:22-cv-01213) for leave to file an amicus brief in support of plaintiffs Missouri and Louisiana’s motion for a preliminary injunction in a freedom of speech lawsuit against President Joe Biden and some 60 individuals and government agencies.
STC Two filed an unopposed motion Monday to continue the preliminary pretrial conference in a cell tower land dispute in U.S. District Court for Southern Ohio in Columbus after the parties reached a settlement in principle. Property owner Thomas Branham installed a padlock at the entrance to the tower in breach of his contract, saying STC Two's tower wasn’t installed within the boundaries of the easement Branham granted (see 2304170051). The parties are finalizing settlement documents, the motion (docket 2:23-cv-0076) said, and asked the court to continue the preliminary pretrial conference until at least May 23; Branham has no objection.
CBP is providing an additional benefit to Trade Compliance program members of its Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism, the agency said in a letter to CTPAT members posted to the agency’s website April 26. Since March 5, the agency has been offering preliminary notifications of Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act holds, CBP said.
Now that the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has scheduled oral argument for May 25 on the petition to transfer the 16 data breach class actions against T-Mobile for consolidation under a single judge (see 2304170007), there’s “a strong likelihood” the JPML will resolve the petition in less than two months, said T-Mobile. It filed a reply Monday (docket 3:23-cv-00427) in U.S. District Court for Southern California in San Diego in support of a stay, pending JPML action, in one of those class actions, Shoemaker v. T-Mobile, over the opposition of the 46 named plaintiffs in that case (see 2304180014).
Although President Joe Biden has threatened to veto a resolution that would retroactively collect trade remedies on some solar panels from Southeast Asia with Chinese inputs, several Democratic senators said they would vote for the resolution if it came up in the Senate. Biden had put a pause on the duties through June 2024, and announced the action before the Commerce Department made its preliminary finding that certain solar panels made in Southeast Asia should be considered of Chinese origin, and are circumventing antidumping and countervailing duties on Chinese solar cells.