The Commerce Department said it made an error in the Federal Register notice announcing earlier in March the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from China (A-570-914) (see 2303130064). The error was the stated China-wide rate, which should have been reported as 255.07%, not 264.64%.
No lawsuits were recently filed at the Court of International Trade.
The FCC Wireless Bureau said Friday five companies have a complete application to be contraband interdiction system (CIS) operators to help address contraband phones in correctional facilities. The five are CellBlox Acquisitions, ShawnTech Communications, Tecore Networks, SOC and OmniProphis. The bureau asked for comment on the applications, due April 23 in docket 13-111, before granting final approvals. The bureau is implementing an order approved 4-0 by commissioners in July 2021 (see 2107130029). The bureau also released a protective order, making some information public while limiting access to competitively sensitive data to experts employed by wireless providers. “While we are mindful of the sensitive nature of some of the information involved, we are also mindful of the general right of the public, and our desire for the public, to participate in this proceeding in a meaningful way,” the order said: “We find that allowing limited access to competitively sensitive materials pursuant to the procedures set forth in this Protective Order allows the public (through appropriate representatives) to do so, while also protecting sensitive law enforcement information and competitively sensitive information from improper disclosure and use.”
Some states have fairly sharp pencils for estimated awards from NTIA’s broadband, equity, access and deployment (BEAD), but others are working with wide ranges. States were mixed on whether it's challenging to plan their broadband programs without knowing the award amount. NTIA is expected to make funding allocation announcements June 30.
The Commerce Department committed a "clear legal error" by failing to follow the statute and its own prior practice by using acquisition prices paid by antidumping duty respondent Nexco as opposed to actual cost data from the beekeepers themselves for the cost of production in an AD investigation on raw honey from Argentina, Nexco argued in a March 24 reply brief. The respondent said there is nothing "pragmatic" about disregarding the actual costs of making the merchandise under review in favor of acquisition prices, as the government claims (Nexco v. U.S., CIT # 22-00203).
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied Consumers' Research's challenge of the FCC's method for funding the USF under the nondelegation doctrine, in a ruling Friday (see 2212060070). The FCC "has not violated the private nondelegation doctrine because it wholly subordinates" the Universal Service Administrative Co., the court said, noting Congress "supplied the FCC with intelligible principles when it tasked the agency with overseeing" USF.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied Consumers' Research's challenge of the FCC's method for funding the USF under the nondelegation doctrine, in a ruling Friday (see 2212060070). The FCC "has not violated the private nondelegation doctrine because it wholly subordinates" the Universal Service Administrative Co., the court said, noting Congress "supplied the FCC with intelligible principles when it tasked the agency with overseeing" USF.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register March 24 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 final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on alloy and certain carbon steel threaded rod from China (A-570-104). Commerce said it continued to find that the only company subject to the review, Ningbo Dongxin High-Strength Nut Co., Ltd., did not demonstrate independence from state control, making it part of the China-wide entity with an AD rate of 48.91%. Commerce will assess antidumping duties at this rate on subject merchandise from Ningbo Dongxin entered April 1, 2021, through March 31, 2022. A 48.91% AD cash deposit rate for Ningbo Dongxin takes effect March 27, the date these final results are to be published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department issued its final determinations in the antidumping duty investigations on preserved mushrooms from Poland (A-455-806), Spain (A-469-825) and the Netherlands (A-821-815). Changes to cash deposit requirements set in these final determinations take effect March 27, the date they are scheduled for publication in the Federal Register.