The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Feb. 10 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department is beginning new antidumping duty investigations on tin mill products from Canada, China, Germany, South Korea, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Turkey and the U.K., as well as a new countervailing duty investigation on tin mill products from China, it said in a fact sheet Feb. 8. The underlying petition was filed Jan. 18 (see 2301200045). The International Trade Commission is scheduled to make its preliminary injury determinations by March 6. These AD/CVD investigations will continue only if the ITC finds injury. International Trade Today will provide more details upon publication of the initiation notices in the Federal Register.
Antidumping duty petitioner Mid Continent Steel & Wire in a Feb. 9 brief opposed plaintiff Oman Fasteners' bid for leave to fix mistakes in its recent motion to take judicial notice. Mid Continent said the trade court should refuse to give Oman Fasteners "another bite at the apple" to fix the mistakes in the brief, noting that this is the "second time in less than a month" that the exporter has asked the trade court for permission to address problems in one of its filings (Oman Fasteners v. U.S., CIT # 22-00348).
The Commerce Department erred when it rejected extension requests and imposed adverse facts available in its 2019-2021 antidumping duty administrative review on quartz surface products from India, three affiliated Indian producers said in a Feb. 8 complaint to the Court of International Trade (Antique Marbonite v. U.S., CIT # 23-00030).
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on prestressed concrete steel wire strand from Thailand (A-549-820). The agency preliminarily calculated a 2.18% AD rate for the only company under review, The Siam Industrial Wire Co., Ltd. (SIW). If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from SIW entered Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2021, will be assessed AD duties at importer-specific rates. Any changes to rates for SIW would take effect on the date of publication in the Federal Register of the final results of this review, which are due in June.
The Commerce Department released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on wooden bedroom furniture from China (A-570-890). Commerce continued to find that nine companies under review -- Dongguan Sunrise Furniture Co., Taicang Sunrise Wood Industry, Co., Ltd., Shanghai Sunrise Furniture Co., Ltd., Fairmont Designs; Dongguan Sunrise Furniture Co., Ltd., Taicang Sunrise Wood Industry Co., Ltd., Taicang Fairmont Designs Furniture Co., Ltd., Meizhou Sunrise Furniture Co., Ltd.; Hang Hai Woodcraft’s Art Factory; Shenzhen Forest Furniture Co., Ltd.; Sunforce Furniture (Hui-Yang) Co., Ltd., Sun Fung Wooden Factory, Sun Fung Co., Shin Feng Furniture Co., Ltd., Stupendous International Co., Ltd.; Superwood Co. Ltd., Lianjiang Zongyu Art Products Co., Ltd.; Xiamen Yongquan Sci-Tech Development Co., Ltd.; Yihua Timber Industry Co., Ltd. (a.k.a. Guangdong Yihua Timber Industry Co., Ltd.); and Yihua Lifestyle Technology Co., Ltd. -- are not eligible for a separate rate and are part of the China-wide entity, with an AD duty rate of 216.01%.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on certain collated steel staples from China (A-570-112). Commerce said it continued to find that China Staple (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. Shanghai Yueda Nails Co., Ltd.; and Shijiazhuang Shuangming Trade Co., Ltd. did not demonstrate independence from state control, assigning them to the China-wide entity with an AD rate of 112.01%. Commerce will assess AD duties at this rate on subject merchandise from China Staple, Shanghai Yueda and Shijiazhuang Shuangming entered Jan. 8, 2020, through June 30, 2021. A 112.01% AD cash deposit rate for the three companies takes effect on Feb. 10, the date these final results are to be published in the Federal Register.
Georgia Public Service Commissioner Tim Echols’ motion to dismiss a free speech complaint against him should be denied because “basic, core principles of free speech law were violated and qualified immunity is no bar,” said plaintiff Patty Durand in a Monday brief (docket 1:22-cv-04548) in U.S. District Court for Northern Georgia in Atlanta. Durand, the Republican commissioner’s Democratic rival in an election that was canceled in November (see 2302020006), unblocked and restored access to Durand and others with opposing views on his Facebook page and Twitter account, leading Durand to dismiss her motion for preliminary injunctive relief, but other claims for injunctive relief remain, said the brief. After a joint agreement, Durand expressed her critical views on Echols 11 times, and she “has not been blocked again” so further court oversight “appears unnecessary,” but Echols claims “qualified immunity/that the law was not clear, (i.e., that he could maybe retaliate against Plaintiff based upon the viewpoint she expressed),” said the brief. Echols’ actions “violate long established, core free speech principles.” Durand also seeks “small nominal and actual damages” against Echols in his individual capacity for violations of free speech.
Satellite-provided emergency SOS messaging is just the starting point for satellite operators looking to provide direct-to-handset service, but it won't be the business plan for anyone, said Iridium Director-Legal and Regulatory Coral Faradjian Tuesday in a Smallsat Symposium panel. She said the real revenue, and business plans, seamless transitions between terrestrial mobile and satellite-enabled services.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Feb. 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):