The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas dismissed a suit against the State Department concerning the regulation of 3D gun file exports, saying the claims are moot because the State Department shifted export control responsibility to the Commerce Department. Judge Robert Pitman dismissed the case for lack of jurisdiction, saying plaintiffs Defense Distributed and Second Amendment Foundation failed to show the State Department still regulated the exports. Pitman also ruled that Defense Distributed's claim for monetary damages against the State Department belongs "to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Court of Federal Claims."
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas dismissed a suit against the State Department concerning the regulation of 3D gun file exports, saying the claims are moot because the State Department shifted export control responsibility to the Commerce Department. Judge Robert Pitman dismissed the case for lack of jurisdiction, saying plaintiffs Defense Distributed and Second Amendment Foundation failed to show the State Department still regulated the exports. Pitman also ruled that Defense Distributed's claim for monetary damages against the State Department belongs "to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Court of Federal Claims."
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices March 24 on AD/CVD proceedings:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website March 23, 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 will indefinitely pause its antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on white grape juice concentrate from Argentina after reaching suspension agreements with Argentine exporters and the Argentine government, it said in a pair of notices released March 23.
The Republican attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri, plus the private plaintiffs in the social media censorship lawsuit against the Biden administration, seek leave to amend their complaint to add class allegations and to certify a class, said their motion Monday (docket 3:22-cv-01213) in U.S. District Court for Western Louisiana in Monroe. The defendants oppose the motion, it said.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register March 22 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 released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on oil country tubular goods from Ukraine (A-823-815). Commerce set an AD duty rate of 1.55% for the only company under review, Interpipe (Interpipe Europe S.A./Interpipe Ukraine LLC/PJSC Interpipe Niznedneprovsky Tube Rolling Plant (aka Interpipe NTRP)/LLC Interpipe Niko Tube). The agency will calculate importer-specific rates for entries from Interpipe from July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021. The new 1.55% AD duty cash deposit rate for Interpipe takes effect March 23.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices March 22 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department released amended final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on crystalline silicon photovoltaic products (solar products) from Taiwan (A-583-853) covering the period Feb. 1, 2019, through Jan. 31, 2020, to bring calculated margins for two companies in line with the results of a Court of International Trade case challenging the original final results.