The Commerce Department erred when it switched its zero percent dumping margin for Greek exporter Corinth Pipeworks Pipe Industry (CPW) to a 41.04% dumping rate despite the fact that the data was "entirely unchanged," the exporter told the Court of International Trade in a March 31 complaint. CPW also contested Commerce's use of adverse facts available despite the fact that it fully cooperated in the antidumping duty review and the agency's failure to conduct a verification, virtual or otherwise (Corinth Pipeworks Pipe Industry v. United States, CIT #22-00063).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register March 31 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 March 31 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Noncommercial educational stations that haven’t had the chance to participate in the ATSC 3.0 transition could receive temporary, internet-only channels to allow their content to be received by 3.0 devices, said Pearl TV Managing Director Anne Schelle in an interview.
Noncommercial educational stations that haven’t had the chance to participate in the ATSC 3.0 transition could receive temporary, internet-only channels to allow their content to be received by 3.0 devices, said Pearl TV Managing Director Anne Schelle in an interview.
The Commerce Department has issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on monosodium glutamate from Indonesia (A-560-826). These final results, reflecting a calculation change that lowered the rate from the preliminary results, will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise from two companies under review entered Nov. 1, 2019, through Oct. 31, 2020.
The Commerce Department is postponing until June 14, 2022, the due date for its preliminary determinations in the antidumping duty investigations on emulsion styrene-butadiene rubber from the Czech Republic (A-851-805) and Russia (A-821-835), it said in a notice. Currently, the preliminary determinations are due no later than April 25, 2022. Lion Elastomers LLC requested that Commerce postpone. (See 2112090029 for the initiation and scope of the investigation and 2111190027 for the underlying petition.)
Consumer intentions on buying new TV sets held steady in March compared with February, according to preliminary Conference Board data released Tuesday. Analytics firm Toluna canvassed 5,000 U.S. homes through March 23, finding 10.9% plan to buy a new TV set in the next six months, compared with 11% in February, 11.5% in January and 11% in March 2021, said the board. Consumer confidence increased slightly in March after declines in January and February, and “continues to be supported by strong employment growth,” it said. Consumer confidence “has been holding up remarkably well despite geopolitical uncertainties and expectations for inflation,” said the board. “These headwinds are expected to persist in the short term and may potentially dampen confidence as well as cool spending further in the months ahead.”
CBP is setting interim measures against six companies for possible evasion of the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders on wooden cabinets and vanities from China. According to a March 10 notice, CBP has determined that there is reasonable suspicion that Uni-Tile, Durian, Kingway, Lonlas, Maikai, and Top Kitchen evaded AD/CVD by transshipping covered merchandise through Malaysia.
The Commerce Department is amending the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on large power transformers from South Korea (A-580-867) it issued March 8, to correct an error it said it made in calculating the rate for Hyosung Heavy Industries Corporation, Inc. Commerce said it received an allegation from petitioners Hitachi Energy USA, Inc., and Prolec-GE Waukesha, Inc., that it had made a ministerial error in the final results of this review with regard to the calculated rate for Hyosung. "Based on our analysis of the allegation, we determine that we made a ministerial error and we made changes to the calculation of the weighted-average dumping margin for Hyosung," Commerce said.