The Commerce Department issued notices in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping duty investigations on paper file folders from China, India and Vietnam (A-570-147, A-533-910, A-552-834), and its countervailing duty investigation on the same product from India (C-533-911). The CV duty investigation covers entries Jan. 1, 2021, through Dec. 31, 2021. The AD duty investigations on China and Vietnam cover entries April 1, 2022, through Sept. 30, 2022, and the AD duty investigation on India covers the period Oct. 1, 2021, through Sept. 30, 2022.
U.S. District Judge William Orrick for Northern California in San Francisco said Meta can file by Nov. 23 a supplemental response objecting to the declaration of an expert witness in support of an injunction to bar Meta from intercepting or disseminating patient information collected through its Pixel tracking tool, in Orrick’s order Monday (docket 3:22-cv-03580). The large privacy class action alleged in mid-June that when a patient communicates with a healthcare provider’s website where the Pixel tool is present, its source code causes the exact content of the patient’s communication with the healthcare provider to be redirected to Facebook in a fashion that identifies the user as a patient. The expert witness, Christo Wilson, a Northeastern University computer sciences associate professor, said in his Oct. 26 declaration that Meta could easily comply with an injunctive relief order by using its existing filtering tools and web-crawlers, with “slight modifications.” Meta also could “immediately disable any Pixel that it finds have sent patient data in the past, in addition to their existing practice of notifying the developer who created the Pixel,” it said. Meta objected to the Wilson declaration and asked Orrick to strike it because Meta lacked an opportunity to respond to it, said his order Monday. Though Orrick denied the request to strike the declaration, he will permit Meta to respond to it, it said. After that, “no further briefing with regards to the motion for a preliminary injunction shall be allowed,” said Orrick’s order. He will let the parties know later if he wants to hear argument on Meta’s supplemental declaration, it said.
U.S. District Judge William Orrick for Northern California in San Francisco said Meta can file by Nov. 23 a supplemental response objecting to the declaration of an expert witness in support of an injunction to bar Meta from intercepting or disseminating patient information collected through its Pixel tracking tool, in Orrick’s order Monday (docket 3:22-cv-03580). The large privacy class action alleged in mid-June that when a patient communicates with a healthcare provider’s website where the Pixel tool is present, its source code causes the exact content of the patient’s communication with the healthcare provider to be redirected to Facebook in a fashion that identifies the user as a patient. The expert witness, Christo Wilson, a Northeastern University computer sciences associate professor, said in his Oct. 26 declaration that Meta could easily comply with an injunctive relief order by using its existing filtering tools and web-crawlers, with “slight modifications.” Meta also could “immediately disable any Pixel that it finds have sent patient data in the past, in addition to their existing practice of notifying the developer who created the Pixel,” it said. Meta objected to the Wilson declaration and asked Orrick to strike it because Meta lacked an opportunity to respond to it, said his order Monday. Though Orrick denied the request to strike the declaration, he will permit Meta to respond to it, it said. After that, “no further briefing with regards to the motion for a preliminary injunction shall be allowed,” said Orrick’s order. He will let the parties know later if he wants to hear argument on Meta’s supplemental declaration, it said.
The Commerce Department issued its final determinations in the antidumping duty investigations on emulsion styrene butadiene rubber from Russia (A-821-835) and the Czech Republic (A-851-805). Changes to cash deposit requirements set in these final determinations take effect Nov. 17, the date they are scheduled for publication in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Nov. 16 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on common alloy aluminum sheet from China (A-570-073). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set AD assessment rates for subject merchandise for the companies under review entered Feb. 1, 2021, through Jan 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on prestressed concrete steel wire strand from Turkey (A-489-842). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers for subject merchandise entered Sept. 30, 2020, through Jan. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on large diameter welded pipe South Korea (A-580-897). These final results will be used to set final assessments of antidumping duties on importers for subject merchandise from 20 companies under review entered May 1, 2020, through April 30, 2021.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on citric acid and certain citrate salts from Belgium (A-423-813). Commerce found the only company under review, Citribel nv, formerly known as S.A. Citrique Belge N.V. (see 2207280056), did not undersell subject merchandise during the period of review, assigning it a zero percent AD rate. Subject merchandise from Citribel entered July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021, will be liquidated without any assessment of AD duties, and future entries of subject merchandise from Citribel will not be subject to AD cash deposit requirements until further notice. Changes to cash deposit rates from these final results take effect Nov. 16, the date they are set to be published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department on Nov. 14 released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on welded line pipe from Turkey (A-489-822). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise for the one company under review, Cimtas Boru Imalatlari ve Ticaret, Ltd. Sti., entered Dec. 1, 2020, through Nov. 30, 2021.