A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website March 13, 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 published notices in the Federal Register March 13 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 light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from Mexico (A-201-836). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered Aug. 1, 2020, through July 31, 2021.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from China (A-570-914). Commerce calculated an AD rate of 63.16% for the only company under review, Hangzhou Ailong Metal Products Co., Ltd. Commerce will assess AD duties at importer-specific rates on subject merchandise from Hangzhou Ailong entered Aug. 1, 2020, through July 31, 2021. A 63.16% AD duty cash deposit rate for Hangzhou Ailong takes effect March 14, when these final results are scheduled for publication in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices March 13 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Dismissing Sea Shepherd New Zealand's and Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's challenge of an expired comparability finding for New Zealand's West Coast North Island multispecies set-net and trawl fisheries would allow the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to evade review and take similar action in the future, the conservation groups said in a March 9 brief (Sea Shepherd New Zealand v. U.S., CIT # 20-00112).
DOJ moved Thursday to strike the March 7 supplemental fact memorandum by the Louisiana and Missouri attorneys general in support of their motion for a preliminary injunction (PI) to block what they allege is the Biden administration’s collusion with Big Tech to censor right-leaning social media content in violation of the First Amendment (see 2303080002).
California Public Utilities Commission opposition to T-Mobile’s challenge of USF contribution changes “is as legally indefensible as it is inequitable,” the carrier said Thursday at the U.S. District Court of Northern California. T-Mobile and subsidiaries seek a preliminary injunction to stop the CPUC’s October decision to switch to connections-based contribution from taking effect April 1 (see 2302280037 and 2302020058). T-Mobile disagreed with CPUC opposition that it lacks standing and failed to show the new surcharge is inconsistent with federal law.
The Commerce Department released the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on passenger vehicle and light truck tires from China (C-570-017). The agency calculated new CV duty cash deposit rates for the Chinese producers and exporters listed below. These final results will be used to set final assessments of CV duties on importers for entries between Jan. 1, 2020, through Dec. 31, 2020.
The Commerce Department released its preliminary affirmative antidumping determination March 10 that freight rail couplers from China (A-570-145) are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. Commerce found “critical circumstances” for all Chinese companies, and will retroactively suspend liquidation and impose AD duty cash deposit requirements for all subject merchandise as of Dec. 13, 2022.