The Commerce Department will soon impose antidumping duty cash deposit requirements on imports of freight rail couplers from China, it said in a fact sheet issued March 8 announcing its preliminary determination in the AD investigation. Commerce set an AD rate of 169.9% for all Chinese exporters, it said. AD suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements will take effect for entries on or after the date of publication of the preliminary determinations in the Federal Register, which should occur in the coming days. Liquidation is already suspended and countervailing duty cash deposit requirements in effect under a preliminary CVD determination issued earlier in March (see 2303020035).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register March 8 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 crystalline silicon photovoltaic products from China (A-570-010). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise from the only company under review, Trina Solar and its affiliates, entered Feb. 1, 2021, through Jan. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices March 8 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register March 7 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 published the preliminary results of a countervailing duty administrative review of cold-drawn mechanical tubing of carbon and alloy steel from India (C-533-874). This review covers subject merchandise from the exporters under review entered during the period Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2021.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of a countervailing duty administrative review of crystalline silicon photovoltaic products from China (C-570-011). The agency calculated a preliminary rate of 8.75% for Trina Solar, the only company under review, and its affiliates. Any changes to Trina Solar's cash deposit rate would take effect on the publication date of the final results of this review. In the final results, Commerce will also set assessment rates for subject merchandise from Trina Solar entered during calendar year 2021.
The Commerce Department published the preliminary results of a countervailing duty administrative review of common alloy aluminum sheet from China (C-570-074). This review covers subject merchandise from the exporters under review entered during the period Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2021.
Plaintiff Avid Telecom and defendant TransNexus agree their legal fight (see 2212080050) is “complex” because it involves an “unusually large number of claims or defenses,” and will require “extended discovery” and “multiple use of experts,” said their joint preliminary report and discovery plan Friday (docket 1:22-cv-04829) in U.S. District Court for Northern Georgia in Atlanta. Avid alleges a Nov. 15 TransNexus blog post that was exposed to 50,000 readers in the telecom industry falsely depicted Avid as an enabler of illicit robocallers. TransNexus contends the blog post was drawn from a petition in which the Indiana attorney general’s office disclosed it was investigating Avid for possible Telemarketing Sales Rules violations and other infractions. It concedes the blog post “inadvertently contained certain errors or insufficiently supported statements,” said the report. After becoming aware of the factual errors and other concerns, TransNexus “promptly removed the inaccurate information from the blog, then removed the blog entirely,” it said. “TransNexus then appropriately retracted the blog,” and issued a notice of retraction and an apology, it said. Avid contends the retraction and apology were insufficient to lure back major customers that abandoned the brand. The parties don’t consent to bring their case before a magistrate judge but agree there’s “a possibility of settlement” before or after discovery, having held settlement discussions Feb. 16, said the report.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on steel propane cylinders from Thailand (A-549-839). Commerce set an AD rate of 10.64% for Sahamitr Pressure Container Plc., the only company under review, an increase from the preliminary rate of 2.49% it calculated. Subject merchandise from Sahamitr entered Aug. 1, 2020, through July 31, 2021, will be liquidated at importer-specific rates, Commerce said. The 10.64% AD duty cash deposit rate for Sahamitr takes effect March 8.