The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on certain large vertical shaft engines between 225cc and 999cc, and parts thereof, from China (A-570-119). Commerce said it continued to find that the only company subject to the review, Honda Power Products (China) Co., Ltd., did not demonstrate independence from state control, making it part of the China-wide entity with an AD rate of 456.1%. Commerce will assess antidumping duties at this rate on subject merchandise from Honda entered Aug. 19, 2020, through Feb. 28, 2022. A 456.1% AD cash deposit rate for Honda takes effect April 4, the date these final results are to be published in the Federal Register.
Liquidation of imported picture frame moldings should have been suspended pending antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews, importer Larson-Juhl told the Court of International Trade in a March 30 complaint. The complaint contests CBP's denial of Larson-Juhl's protests concerning the liquidation and assessment of duties on nine entries subject to AD and CVD orders on wood mouldings and millwork products from China (Larson-Juhl US v. United States., CIT # 23-00032).
T-Mobile appealed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after a district court refused to stop California from switching to a connections-based method for state USF contribution. The carrier notified the U.S. District Court for Northern California about the appeal Monday.
A federal magistrate judge late Friday denied the motion of T-Mobile and its subsidiaries for a preliminary injunction that would have blocked the California Public Utilities Commission's change to a $1.11 monthly per-line USF contribution fee from the previous revenue-based mechanism. The order came a short time before CPUC’s mechanism change took effect Saturday in the state.
Antidumping petitioner Mid Continent Steel & Wire asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit for an expedited briefing schedule in a case on the Commerce Department's use of adverse facts available due to a 16-minute late submission (Oman Fasteners v. U.S., Fed. Cir. # 23-1661).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register March 29 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 and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices March 28-29 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on circular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Thailand (A-549-502). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise from sole mandatory respondent Thai Premium Pipe Co. Ltd. (TPP) entered March 1, 2021, through Feb. 28, 2022.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register March 28 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 a final determination that stainless steel sheet and strip of Chinese origin that has undergone further processing in Vietnam is merchandise covered by the scope of the antidumping and countervailing orders on stainless steel sheet and strip from China (A-570-042/C-570-043), and that stainless steel sheet and strip completed in Vietnam using certain non-subject stainless steel flat-rolled inputs of Chinese origin is circumventing the orders.