The Commerce Department released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on hydrofluorocarbon blends from China (A-570-028). The agency continued its preliminary finding that the companies that remained subject to review did not demonstrate independence from Chinese government control, and assigned them to the China-wide entity with an AD rate of 216.37%. See the notice for the list of the 41 companies.
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on alloy and certain carbon steel threaded rod from China (A-570-104). The agency found that Ningbo Dongxin High-Strength Nut Co., Ltd., the only company remaining under review, did not qualify for a separate rate, assigning it to the China-wide entity with a rate of 48.91%. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from Ningbo Donxin entered April 1, 2021, through March 31, 2022, will be assessed AD duties at that 48.91% rate. An AD cash deposit rate of 48.91% would take effect for Ningbo Dongxin upon publication of the final results of this review in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Dec. 21 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Department of Commerce preliminarily determined that certain types of truck wheels that Asia Wheel manufactures in its facilities in Thailand and exports to the U.S. are subject to the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on certain steel wheels 22.5 to 24.5 inches in diameter from China, according to a Dec. 13 preliminary scope ruling.
Verizon's debt collector, CBE Customer Solutions, failed to state a claim upon which relief can be granted and its counterclaims should be dismissed, said Verizon Wireless Friday in a memorandum supporting its motion for summary judgment in a breach of contract lawsuit (docket: (1:22-cv-08703) stemming from a Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action.
The Commerce Department on Dec. 19 filed a pair of remand redeterminations at the Court of International Trade that exclude ductile iron flanges imported by MCC Holdings, doing business as Crane Resistoflex, and Star Pipe Products from the antidumping duty order on cast iron pipe fittings from China. The trade court previously said the remand results were not issued in a form that the court could sustain. On remand, the agency clarified that it doesn't intend to issue a scope ruling after the court's review of the case, declaring that if the court affirms the remand, a Federal Register notice will be released stating that Crane's and Star Pipe's flanges are outside the scope of the order (MCC Holdings dba Crane Resistoflex v. U.S., CIT # 18-00248) (Star Pipe Products v. United States, CIT # 17-00236).
The Court of International Trade in a Dec. 20 opinion denied an injunction bid pending appeal from certain plaintiffs in an attorney conflict-of interest suit. After recently rejecting the plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, Judge Gary Katzmann this time rejected the injunction motion pending appeal since the appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit "has not yet been noticed," but even if it had, the injunction "is unwarranted." Katzmann said that the plaintiffs fail to both show a "strong showing of success on the merits" and prove that they will suffer irreparable harm without the injunction.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Dec. 20 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 is beginning an anti-circumvention inquiry to determine whether collated steel staples from Thailand and Vietnam made from Chinese components should be subject to antidumping and countervailing duties on the same product from China (A-570-112/C-570-113), it said in a notice released Dec. 20.
The Commerce Department on Dec. 20 released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on magnesium metal from China (A-570-896). The agency again said 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, April 1, 2021, through March 31, 2022. 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 April 1, 2021, through March 31, 2022, will be liquidated at the China-wide rate, currently 141.49%. Commerce will make its final decision when it issues the final results of this review, currently due in April.