The Court of International Trade denied Wheatland Tube Company's bid for a preliminary injunction in a case seeking to compel CBP to respond to requests for information and a tariff classification ruling relating to Section 232 evasion since Wheatland has not shown a likelihood to succeed on the merits. CBP already responded to Wheatland's requests, so the plaintiff has not shown how it could succeed in the case, Judge Timothy Stanceu said.
The FCC approved Key Bridge to be an environmental sensing capability (ESC) operator in various markets, for the citizens broadband radio service, said a notice in Tuesday’s Daily Digest. The Wireless Bureau and Office of Engineering and Technology gave preliminary clearance earlier but told the company to submit its sensing software to NTIA for retesting (see 2007140055). “Based on these results, we find that Key Bridge has satisfied the retesting condition and is approved for full commercial operation of their ESC,” the FCC said in docket 15-319.
The Commerce Department released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on large residential washers from Mexico (A-201-842). The agency calculated an AD rate of zero percent for Electrolux Home Products Corp. N.V. and its affiliate Electrolux Home Products de Mexico, S.A. de C.V., the only company under review. Any changes to Electrolux's cash deposit rate would take effect on the publication date of the final results of this review in the Federal Register, currently due in June. As it currently stands, once it issues the final results, the agency will instruct CBP to liquidate the appropriate entries without regard to antidumping duties on subject merchandise from Electrolux entered Feb. 1, 2020, through Jan. 31, 2021.
Consumer intentions on buying new TVs declined slightly in February from January, according to preliminary Conference Board data released Tuesday. The board hired tech analytics firm Toluna to canvass 5,000 U.S. homes through Feb. 16, finding 11.1% plan to buy new TV sets in the next six months, compared with 11.5% in January, 9.9% in December and 12.2% in February 2021. Consumer confidence dropped slightly for the second straight month, said the board: “Expectations about short-term growth prospects weakened further, pointing to a likely moderation in growth over the first half of 2022.”
The Commerce Department is beginning an anti-circumvention inquiry to determine whether all imports of welded carbon steel standard pipes and tubes from Oman and the United Arab Emirates made from Indian hot-rolled steel are circumventing antidumping duties on welded carbon steel standard pipes and tubes from India (A-533-502), it said Feb. 22.
The Commerce Department issued its final determination in the antidumping duty investigation on mobile access equipment and subassemblies thereof from China (A-570-139). Cash deposit rates set in this final determination take effect Feb. 22, the date the final determination was published in the Federal Register.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Feb. 18 Federal Register on the following AD/CV injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department issued the final results of its antidumping duty administrative review on pure magnesium from China (A-570-832). The agency said it continues to find that the only companies under review, Tianjin Magnesium International, Co., Ltd., and Tianjin Magnesium Metal, Co., Ltd. (collectively TMI/TMM) had no shipments of subject merchandise to the U.S. during the period of review, May 1, 2020, through April 30, 2021. Therefore, subject merchandise from these two companies will continue to enter at AD rates set in the most recent previous review, and any entries filed with TMI's or TMM's case number entered May 1, 2020, through April 30, 2021, will be liquidated at the China-wide rate of 111.73%.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Feb. 18 on AD/CV duty proceedings:
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Feb. 17 on AD/CV duty proceedings: