The Commerce Department’s recent preliminary determination that Southeast Asian solar cells and panels are circumventing antidumping and countervailing duties (see 2212020064) left several questions unanswered, and lawyers for the Solar Energy Industries Association hope the agency will clarify these issues as the case proceeds to its final determinations, they said during a webinar Dec. 13.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Dec. 13 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 and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Dec. 13 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Correction: In its preliminary determinations in anti-circumvention inquiries on solar cells from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, Commerce declared the 22 companies that did not cooperate with the inquiries are ineligible for certification processes for goods from exempt exporters and goods that don’t meet Chinese content requirements. However, they may submit certifications that their goods are “applicable” entries that qualify for a two-year grace period from any duties imposed under the anti-circumvention inquiries (see 2212020064 and 2212070025). Such certifications are due by Jan. 23 for entries since April 1, 2022, and at time of entry summary for entries on or after Dec. 23.
The Commerce Department has issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on certain large vertical shaft engines between 225cc and 999cc, and parts thereof from China (A-570-119). The agency said Honda Power Products (China) Co., Ltd. failed to establish its eligibility for a separate rate and preliminary assigned the company to the China-wide entity at a cash rate of 456.1%. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from Honda entered Aug. 19, 2020, through Feb. 28, 2022, will be assessed AD duties at that 456.1% rate. An AD duty cash deposit rate of 456.1% would take effect for Honda upon publication of the final results of this review in the Federal Register.
Thursday’s opening day of the multiday hearing on the FTC’s motion for a preliminary injunction to block Meta’s Within Unlimited buy lasted nearly five hours and admitted 18 exhibits into evidence, 15 by the FTC, three by Meta, said a minute order and hearing log (docket 5:22-cv-04325) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose (see 2212080018). The lone in-person witness to take the stand on Day One was Rade Stojsavljevic, director of Meta’s 1st Party Studios, testifying for the FTC, the hearing log shows. At one point nearing 4 p.m. PST, U.S. District Judge Edward Davila admonished individuals in the courtroom “for taking photographs, video recording and audio recording during proceedings,” said the log.
One of the first questions to emerge in January when Microsoft announced its proposed Activision Blizzard purchase for $68.7 billion in an all-cash deal was what would become of Sony's access to Activision’s third-party content support for the PlayStation 5 after the game publisher came under the control of the owner of the rival Xbox platform. The preliminary signals Microsoft put out for public consumption suggested Sony would experience business as usual, and that Activision, under Microsoft’s control, would continue supporting content availability across the “variety of platforms” it currently backs.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on circular welded carbon steel standard pipe and tube products from Turkey (A-489-501). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered May 1, 2020, through April 30, 2021.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on polyethylene film, sheet and strip (PET film) from India (C-533-825). Commerce will set final assessments of CV duties on importers for subject merchandise from four companies entered Jan. 1, 2020, through Dec. 31, 2020. The new CV duty cash deposit rates take effect for entries from these companies on or after Dec. 12, the date these final results are to be published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department will consider whether boltless steel shelving made in Malaysia from Chinese components should be subject to antidumping and countervailing duties on China, the agency said in a notice beginning an anti-circumvention inquiry.