The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on citric acid from Thailand (A-549-833). In the final results of this review, Commerce may set assessment rates for subject merchandise from three companies entered July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022.
The Philippines notified the World Trade Organization on April 4 that it began a preliminary safeguard investigation on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders. The investigation was initiated after a request by the country’s LPG steel cylinder industry, which said increased imports of the cylinders “cause serious injury to the domestic industry,” including “declining market share, production, sales, capacity utilization, employment profitability, incurred losses, and existence of price depression and price undercutting.” Interested parties can comment on the investigation by making submissions to the Bureau of Import Services via bis_irmd@dti.gov.ph within five days of April 4.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices April 6 on AD/CVD proceedings:
T-Mobile’s opening brief in a California USF appeal is due by May 1, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Tuesday. The California Public Utilities Commission’s answering brief will be due May 30 or four weeks after after the opening brief arrives, and the carrier’s optional reply brief will be due three weeks after the CPUC responds, the court said. T-Mobile and subsidiaries are challenging the U.S. District Court of Northern California denying preliminary injunction against a CPUC order requiring a change to a connections-based contribution method (case 23-15490). The CPUC order took effect Saturday, but T-Mobile asked for a stay pending appeal in docket 3:23-cv-00483 at the lower court (see 2304040011).
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the weeks of March 20-26 and March 27 - April 2:
Defendants in the social media censorship lawsuit Missouri v. Biden sought to “correct the record” on plaintiffs’ request for consolidation with the Missouri et al. v. Biden case against President Joe Biden and some 60 individuals and government agencies pending in the same court, said a Tuesday response (docket 3:22-cv-01213) in U.S. District Court of Western Louisiana in Monroe.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register April 5 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 stainless steel sheet and strip in coils from Taiwan (A-583-831). Rates calculated in this review will be used to set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise from 61 exporters in the review that was entered July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on uncoated paper from Portugal (A-471-807). The agency preliminarily calculated an AD rate of 8.18% for the only company under review, The Navigator Company, S.A. Any changes to Navigator's cash deposit rate would take effect on the date of Federal Register publication of the final results of this review. Once Commerce issues its final results, the agency will assess duties at importer-specific rates for entries of subject merchandise from Navigator entered March 1, 2021, through Feb. 28, 2022.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on new pneumatic off-the-road tires from India (A-533-869). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise entered March 2021 through February 2022.