The government “should not be able to mask its censorship behind the guise of private action,” said the Alliance Defending Freedom Tuesday in an amicus brief (docket 3:22-cv-01213) filed in support of Republican attorneys general in a First Amendment case against Biden administration officials in U.S. District Court for Western Louisiana in Monroe.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on hot-rolled steel flat products from South Korea (A-580-883). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers of subject merchandise entered Oct. 1, 2020, through Sept. 30, 2021.
A resolution that would overturn the Biden administration’s two-year delay of antidumping and countervailing duties on solar cells and panels from Southeast Asia passed out of the House Ways and Means Committee 26-13 on April 19.
The California Public Utilities Commission, in opposing the emergency motion from T-Mobile and its subsidiaries to freeze the CPUC order requiring a $1.11 monthly flat USF fee per line as of April 1, contradicts the district court’s “unequivocal finding” that T-Mobile “established irreparable harm,” said the carrier’s reply brief Monday (docket 23-15490) at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in support of a stay.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on refillable stainless steel kegs from China (C-570-094). The agency calculated new CVD cash deposit rates for the Chinese producers and exporters listed below. They are slightly above the rate calculated in the preliminary results of this review. These final results will be used to set final assessments of CVD on importers for entries during calendar year 2020.
An antidumping duty order on floor-standing, metal-top ironing tables from China (A-570-888) will remain in place, after a domestic ironing table producer told Commerce it still wants the order to stay in effect during a changed circumstances review, the Commerce Department said. While Commerce had said it intended to revoke the order in the preliminary results of the review based on a statement of non-interest in the order from what the agency said was the only domestic producer (see 2207150048), Commerce said in the final results that “Seymour Mfg. LLC demonstrated that it is a domestic producer of ironing tables and has expressed interest in the continuation of the Order. Therefore, Commerce has determined not to revoke the Order.”
The Commerce Department released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on forged steel fittings from China (A-570-067). These final results will be used to set final assessments of antidumping duties on importers for subject merchandise entered Nov. 1, 2020, through Oct. 31, 2021.
The Commerce Department double counted energy costs for Chinese xanthan gum producer Fufeng in an antidumping duty review on xanthan gum from China, and "compounded" the error by applying the incorrect rate to separate rate applicant, Meihua, the company said in an April 14 complaint at the Court of International Trade (Meihua Group International Trading (Hong Kong) v. U.S., CIT # 23-00069).
T-Mobile shows no dire situation warranting injunction of California’s shift to connections-based contribution for state USF, the California Public Utilities Commission said Friday at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The agency urged the court to deny the carrier and its subsidiaries’ emergency request to freeze the CPUC order requiring a $1.11 monthly flat fee as of April 1. “No lives hang in the balance,” wrote the CPUC. “No one is threatened with deportation.”
The Commerce Department illegally deducted Section 301 China tariff duties from exporter Neimenggu Fufeng Biotechnologies Co.'s U.S. price in the 2020-21 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on xanthan gum from China, Fufeng argued in a complaint at the Court of International Trade. Fufeng added in its seven-count complaint that Commerce improperly decided to directly value energy factors of production in its normal value calculation based on a revision of Ajinomoto (Malaysia) Berhad's preliminary financial ratio calculations (Neimenggu Fufeng Biotechnologies Co. v. United States, CIT # 23-00068).