The Commerce Department has released the final results of a countervailing duty administrative review of stainless steel flanges from India (C-533-878). The review covered subject merchandise from the exporters under review entered during calendar year 2020.
Google as “a market-dominant communications firm” is unlawfully discriminating against the Republican National Committee by “throttling its email messages” because of the RNC’s political affiliation and views, alleged the committee in a pair of complaints Friday (dockets 2:22-at-01077 and 2:22-cv-01904) in U.S. District Court for Eastern California in Sacramento. “Google has relegated millions of RNC emails en masse to potential donors’ and supporters’ spam folders during pivotal points in election fundraising and community building,” said the RNC. “The timing of Google’s most egregious filtering is particularly damning,” it said. For most of each month, nearly all the RNC’s emails make it into users’ inboxes, but at about the same time at the end of each month, “Google sends to spam nearly all of the RNC’s emails,” it said. “Critically, and suspiciously, this end of the month period is historically when the RNC’s fundraising is most successful.” This discrimination has been ongoing for about 10 months, “despite the RNC’s best efforts to work with Google,” said the committee. The complaints allege violations of California’s common carrier law and other infractions, and seek preliminary and permanent injunctive relief to remedy Google’s violations of state and federal law. Google didn’t comment.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website Oct. 26, 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.
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on frozen warmwater shrimp from China (A-570-893). The agency found 134 companies did not cooperate in the review, assigning them to the China-wide entity with a rate of 112.81%. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from these 134 companies entered Feb. 1, 2021, through Jan. 31, 2022, will be assessed AD duties at that 112.81% rate. An AD duty cash deposit rate of 112.81% would take effect for these 134 companies upon publication of the final results of this review in the Federal Register. See Commerce's notice for a full list of these companies.
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on uncovered innerspring units from China (A-570-928). The agency found Bomei Tex Ltd. and Saffron Living Co., Ltd. did not cooperate in the review, assigning both companies to the China-wide entity with a rate of 234.51%. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from Bomei and Saffron Living entered between Feb. 1, 2021, and Jan. 31, 2022, will be assessed AD duties at that 234.51% rate. An AD duty cash deposit rate of 234.51% would take effect for Bomei and Saffron Living upon publication of the final results of this review in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department is launching an anti-circumvention inquiry to determine whether lawn mower sub-assemblies imported from China and attached to a motor in the U.S. should be subject to antidumping and countervailing duties on walk behind lawn mowers from China (A-570-129/C-570-130), the agency said in a notice released Oct. 26.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on polyethylene terephthalate film from Taiwan (A-583-837). Commerce continued to find, as it did in the preliminary results of this review, that Nan Ya Plastics Corp. did not undersell subject merchandise during the period of review, assigning the company a zero percent AD duty rate. Subject merchandise from Nan Ya entered between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021, will be liquidated without any assessment of AD duties, and future entries of subject merchandise exported by Nan Ya won't be subject to AD duty cash deposit requirements until further notice. The new AD duty cash deposit rate takes effect Oct. 26, the day the final results were published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on finished carbon steel flanges from Spain (A-469-815). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered June 1, 2020, through May 31, 2021.
The Commerce Department issued its final determination in the antidumping duty investigation on superabsorbent polymers from South Korea (A-580-914). Cash deposit rates set in this final determination take effect Oct. 27, the date it is scheduled for publication in the Federal Register.
The Court of International Trade should dismiss a case seeking to stop the International Trade Commission from releasing a group of plaintiffs' business proprietary information (BPI) to its former counsel and his firm, Buchanan Ingersoll, the ITC argued in an Oct. 24 motion to dismiss. The plaintiffs failed to exhaust their administrative remedies, the claims are moot, the court does not have subject-matter jurisdiction and the plaintiffs failed to state a claim on which relief can be granted, the brief said (Amsted Rail Company v. ITC, CIT #22-00307).