A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted to CBP's website Sept. 29, 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 published notices in the Federal Register Sept. 29 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 will order suspension of liquidation and antidumping and countervailing duty cash deposit requirements for imports dual-piston engines from China, after preliminarily finding that the dual-piston engines are circumventing AD/CVD orders on vertical shaft engines between 99cc and up to 225cc from China (A-570-124/C-570-125).
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Sept. 29 on AD/CVD proceedings:
A U.S. District Court decision to deny SmartSky Networks a preliminary injunction for Gogo's soon-to-launch 5G air-to-ground network "supports our frequently stated position that Gogo is not infringing any valid SmartSky patent," said Gogo CEO Oakleigh Thorne Tuesday. SmartSky's patent infringement claims are "meritless," he said. SmartSky said Thorne "is attempting to misappropriate and twist the court’s opinion" to imply there has been no patent infringement, even though the court's preliminary ruling allows SmartSky's case to proceed. Judge Gregory Williams of Wilmington, Delaware, in the docket 1:22-cv-00266 order denied SmartSky's preliminary injunction and also Gogo's motion to strike improper reply arguments.
The Commerce Department is postponing until Dec. 19 the due date for its final determination in the antidumping duty investigation on steel nails from Turkey (A-489-846), it said in a notice. Currently, the preliminary determination is due no later than Dec. 4. Aslanbas Civi Tel Ve Celik Hasir San. A.S. (Aslanbas) and Sertel Vida Metals, A.S. (Sertel Vida), mandatory respondents in this investigation, requested that Commerce postpone. (See 2208080018 for the preliminary results of the investigation, 2201260027 for the initiation and scope of the investigation and 2201040030 for the underlying petition.)
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on emulsion styrene-butadiene rubber from Mexico (A-201-848). The agency calculated a zero percent AD rate for Industrias Negromex S.A. de C.V., the only company under review. Any changes to Negromex's cash deposit rate would take effect on the publication date of the final results of this review, currently due in January. If Negromex continues to get a zero rate in the final results once Commerce issues them, the agency will not assess AD duties for subject merchandise from Negromex entered Sept. 1, 2020, through Aug. 31, 2021, it said.
The Commerce Department will consider potential new exemptions for certain off-grid solar panels from the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on crystaline silicon photovoltaic cells from China (A-570-979/C-570-980) and crystalline silicon photovoltaic products from China (A-570-010/C-570-011), it said in two notices initiating a pair of changed circumstances reviews. The proposed exemptions were requested by Shenzhen Hello Tech Energy Co., Ltd., and are not opposed by several U.S. producers of solar products.
The Commerce Department on Sept. 28 released its final determination in its countervailing duty investigation on oil country tubular goods from Russia (C-821-834). Suspension of liquidation is currently not in effect for entries on or after July 12, 2022, and Commerce will require cash deposits of estimated CV duties on future entries only if it issues a CV duty order (though entries are still suspended under Commerce's concurrent antidumping duty investigation).
New countervailing duty cash deposit requirements will take effect Sept. 29 for imports of oil country tubular goods from South Korea (C-580-913), after the Commerce Department reversed course in its final determination and found illegal subsidization of South Korean exporters.