The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Feb. 3 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 on Feb. 3 published its quarterly list of (i) completed antidumping and countervailing duty scope rulings and (ii) anti-circumvention determinations. The following list covers completed scope rulings for the period Oct. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022:
The Commerce Department released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on forged steel fluid end blocks from Italy (A-475-840). The agency preliminarily an AD duty rate of 2.21% for the only company remaining under review, Lucchini Mame Forge S.p.A. Any changes to cash deposit rates for Lucchini would take effect on the publication date of the final results of this review, currently due in June. If this rate is confirmed in the final results, Commerce would assess AD duties at importer-specific rates for subject merchandise from Lucchini entered July 23, 2020, through Dec. 31, 2021.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on uncovered innerspring units from China (A-570-928). The agency upheld its preliminary finding that the two companies under review, Bomei Tex Ltd. and Saffron Living Co., Ltd., did not cooperate in the review, and assigned both companies to the China-wide entity, with an AD rate of 234.51%. Importers of subject merchandise from Bomei and Saffron Living entered between Feb. 1, 2021, and Jan. 31, 2022, will be assessed AD duties at that 234.51% rate. New cash deposit rates of 234.51% will take effect for Bomei and Saffron when these final results are published in the Federal Register, currently scheduled for Feb. 6.
Georgia Public Service Commissioner Tim Echols (R) filed a motion to stay (docket 1:22-cv-04548) discovery and discovery-related obligations Wednesday in the lawsuit filed against him by Democratic rival Patty Durand in U.S. District Court for Northern Georgia in Atlanta. The motion to stay discovery was based on Echols’ motion to dismiss Monday on the grounds that he unblocked Durand from posting to his social media accounts, one of the claims in her First Amendment suit (see 2302010036). Durand voluntarily dismissed her motion for a preliminary injunction last month after Echols committed to not deleting any comments on social media accounts, but her claim for monetary damages remained pending. Durand sued Echols in November for allegedly retaliating against her and violating her free speech rights under the First and 14th amendments by deleting and blocking her posts on his social media accounts. The status of the election is in limbo after U.S. District Court Judge Steven Grimberg ruled in August that the PSC’s at-large elections violate the Voting Rights Act. That ruling is under appeal at the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Feb. 3 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):
Turkish exporter Eregli Demir ve Celik Fabrikalari in a Feb. 2 brief at the Court of International Trade railed against U.S. Steel's bid to intervene in a case challenging the International Trade Commission's decision not to review an antidumping injury proceeding. The exporter said that U.S. Steel Corp. filed for intervention under the wrong legal standard since the case was established under Section 1581(i), the trade court's "residual" jurisdiction, and not Section 1581(c). Even if this point were irrelevant, Erdemir said the court should still prevent U.S. Steel (USSC) from intervening in the case since it was not a proper party to the underlying proceeding (Eregli Demir ve Celik Fabrikalari v. United States, CIT # 22-00349).
T-Mobile will take California regulators to federal court over a decision to switch state USF contribution to a connections-based mechanism. In a complaint Wednesday against the California Public Utilities Commission (case 3:23-cv-00483), T-Mobile and subsidiaries urged the U.S. District Court of Northern California to preliminarily enjoin a $1.11 monthly per-line fee from taking effect April 1. A consumer advocate scoffed Thursday at T-Mobile’s claim that the order hurts low-income households.
The Commerce Department released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on pure magnesium from China (A-570-832). The agency said that the only companies under review, Tianjin Magnesium International Co., Ltd., and Tianjin Magnesium Metal, Co., Ltd., had no exports of subject merchandise to the U.S. during the period under review. If Commerce's “no shipments” finding for TMI and TMM is continued in the final results, subject merchandise from the companies will continue to enter at AD rates set in the most recent previous review, and any entries filed with TMI's or TMM's case number entered May 1, 2021, through April 30, 2022, will be liquidated at the China-wide rate. Commerce will make its final decision when it issues the final results of this review, currently due in June.
The Commerce Department on Feb. 2 released the preliminary results of a countervailing duty administrative review of aluminum extrusions from China (C-570-968). This review covers subject merchandise from the exporters under review entered during the period Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2021.