The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Nov. 18 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Solar developers, installers, manufacturers, and solar array accessory providers are asking Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to reject claims that solar panels made in Southeast Asia are really of Chinese origin, and therefore, are circumventing antidumping and countervailing duties on Chinese solar panel exports.
The European Commission is under pressure to approve EU-U.S. data flows but is likely to face another legal challenge, data protection advocates said on a Thursday European Parliament Greens/European Free Alliance panel. The EC reportedly expects to unveil a preliminary response next month to President Joe Biden's executive order (EO) initiating a EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (see 2210070069) for review by data protection authorities and politicians. The EO doesn't resolve the problems noted by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Schrems II, panelists said.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website Nov. 17, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at CBP's ADCVD Search page.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Preston Deavers for Southern Ohio in Columbus scheduled a telephonic preliminary pretrial conference for Dec. 20 at 10 a.m. EST in a sex-discrimination complaint brought by a former T-Mobile sales executive against her ex-employer, said a notice Tuesday (docket 2:22-cv-03800). Former Director-Sales Heidi Cramer alleges she took the fall for the wrongful actions of her male co-workers in a scheme to artificially inflate the reported sales to small- and medium-business customers, and that she alone was terminated when the scheme was exposed (see 2210260038).
The Commerce Department will consider the possible revocation of the antidumping duty order on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) sheet from the Sultanate of Oman (A-523-813), based on a request from the three companies that originally requested the duties, it said in a notice initiating a changed circumstances review, released Nov. 17. Advanced Extrusion, Inc., Good Natured Products, IL (dba Ex-Tech Inc.) and Multi-Plastics Extrusions, Inc. requested the revocation on Oct. 26. Commerce said it determined that the information submitted by the petitioners -- their statement of no interest in the continued maintenance of the AD order -- constitutes a sufficient basis to conduct a changed circumstances review. The petitioners said that they were the sole petitioners in the original investigation, but that they did not know whether they account for substantially all of the U.S. production of the domestic like product covered by the AD order, Commerce said. As such, Commerce will proceed with a review but isn't making a preliminary determination concurrent with this notice. Commerce will accept comments from interested parties on the review, including comments on industry support, through Nov. 28.
Solar developers, installers, manufacturers, and solar array accessory providers are asking Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to reject claims that solar panels made in Southeast Asia are really of Chinese origin, and therefore, are circumventing antidumping and countervailing duties on Chinese solar panel exports.
The FTC doesn't oppose the Nov. 7 motion for leave filed by two dozen states, plus the District of Columbia, for permission to enter an amicus brief in support of the FTC’s preliminary injunction request to block Meta’s Within Unlimited buy on antitrust grounds (see 2211080041), said the commission in a statement of nonopposition Wednesday (docket 5:22-cv-04325) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose. The states’ motion for leave said the FTC consented to the brief, while Meta opposed it as “purportedly untimely.”
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Nov. 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):
AT&T wants a federal court to prevent Lumen from disconnecting circuits used to provide services to wireless and wireline customers, said a reply brief last week in support of a preliminary injunction filed in docket 1:22-cv-02206-RM-KLM in U.S. District Court in Colorado. The proceeding stems from a complaint filed by Lumen in August over unpaid time division multiplexing fees. “Lumen’s threatened disconnection would cause catastrophic harm to AT&T and its affected customers,” said AT&T’s motion. AT&T has argued that Lumen is seeking to raise the fees by 20%, while Lumen has argued that AT&T was previously seeing a discounted rate, and that the increased prices are consistent with the market price. “Even if AT&T pays the amounts Lumen demands now, Lumen will threaten disconnection again unless AT&T keeps paying Lumen at the rates it demands while this case proceeds,” AT&T said. “AT&T would be irreparably harmed by this massive out-of-pocket cost.” Along with the injunction, AT&T is also seeking to have the case transferred to the Southern District of New York, and the motion says the court should rule on the transfer motion first, because Lumen has agreed not to disconnect any circuits until the Colorado court or a court in the Southern District of New York have ruled on the preliminary injunction. Lumen previously planned to disconnect the circuits Dec. 5, the transfer motion said. Lumen opposes the transfer motion, and has argued that its agreements with AT&T mean the case doesn’t have to be transferred.