The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of a countervailing duty administrative review of refillable stainless steel kegs from China (C-570-094). This review covers subject merchandise from the exporters under review entered during calendar year 2020.
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.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Dec. 20 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Court of International Trade in a Dec. 20 opinion denied an injunction bid pending appeal from certain plaintiffs in a 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 Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit "has not yet been noticed," but even if it had, the injunction "is unwarranted." Katzmann said 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 case was brought by Amsted Rail Co. to contest its former counsel's alleged ethical violations via its use of the company's confidential information in an antidumping and countervailing duty injury proceeding.
Mark Rabkin, vice president of Meta Reality Labs and the executive who heads Meta’s Oculus Store, doubts Meta has the internal capability to build its own successful virtual reality fitness app if its acquisition of Within Unlimited and its Supernatural VR fitness app falls through, he testified for the defense Friday in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose, in an evidentiary hearing via Zoom on the FTC’s motion for a preliminary injunction to block the transaction.
The Commerce Department on Dec. 19 released the preliminary results of two antidumping duty administrative reviews for a single company on cold-drawn mechanical tubing of carbon and alloy steel from India (A-533-873). Combined in a single notice, the first review covers entries Nov. 22, 2017, through May 31, 2019, and the second review covers entries June 1, 2019, through May 31, 2020. The reviews had been held up by a court case where Goodluck India Limited was revoked from, but later reinstated in, the AD order.
The Commerce Department won’t yet impose antidumping and countervailing duties on stainless steel round wire from Vietnam, preliminarily finding imports of the product are not circumventing the AD/CVD orders on stainless steel wire rod from South Korea (A-580-829).
The Commerce Department issued an antidumping duty order on superabsorbent polymers from South Korea (A-580-914). The order details a “gap period” of Dec. 4-13, 2022, of no AD duty liability.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Deavers said initial disclosures should be made by Friday, in a preliminary pretrial order (docket 2:22-cv-03800) filed Wednesday in a sex discrimination lawsuit brought in the U.S. District Court for Southern Ohio in Columbus in October by former T-Mobile Director-Sales Heidi Cramer against two former colleagues. Cramer claims she was terminated when a plan to artificially inflate sales to small- and medium-size businesses went awry, said the Oct. 25 complaint (see 2211160034). Motions to amend the pleadings or join additional parties to the suit must be filed by Dec. 30, said the order, with all discovery to be completed by Sept. 29. Proposed protective orders or clawback agreements must be filed by Jan. 20, it said.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Dec. 16 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):