The Commerce Department recently initiated antidumping duty and countervailing duty investigations on L-lysine from China (A-570-215/C-570-216). The AD investigation period is Oct. 1, 2024, through March 31, 2025. The CVD investigation period is calendar year 2024.
Illinois asked a federal court Monday to dismiss a DOJ workplace privacy suit, arguing that the federal government failed to state a claim, and that federal immigration law does not preempt state privacy law. In May, the DOJ sued Illinois over a workplace privacy law that allegedly disrupts federal immigration authority (see 2505050065).
A federal judge Wednesday denied Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch's request for a stay of an injunction blocking a social media age-verification law. Fitch (R) asked for the injunction to be lifted while an appeal of case 24-00170 was pending at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (see 2506200009).
The Commerce Department issued its final determination in its countervailing duty investigation on low speed personal transportation vehicles from China (C-570-177). Suspension of liquidation is currently not in effect for entries on or after April 5, 2025, and Commerce will require cash deposits of estimated CVD on future entries only if it issues a CVD order.
The Commerce Department has released its final determination in the antidumping duty investigation on low speed personal transportation vehicles from China (A-570-176). Cash deposit rates set in this final determination took effect June 23.
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website June 23, 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.
Antidumping duty petitioner The Coalition for Fair Trade in Ceramic Tile challenged the Commerce Department's AD investigation on ceramic tile from India, arguing that the agency erred in its collapsing and affiliation analyses regarding the two mandatory respondents. The result of the investigation was a zero percent margin for the respondents, Antiqa Minerals and Win-Tel Ceramics (The Coalition for Fair Trade in Ceramic Tile v. United States, CIT # 25-00095).
The International Emergency Economic Powers Act lets the president suspend the de minimis threshold to respond to a national emergency notwithstanding Section 321's limits on eliminating or modifying the threshold, the U.S. argued. Urging the Court of International Trade to side with the government in importer Detroit Axle's suit against the elimination of the de minimis threshold on Chinese goods, the U.S. said the IEEPA's language lets the president void pre-existing privileges granted by other authorities, such as Section 321 (Axle of Dearborn, d/b/a Detroit Axle v. Dep't of Commerce, CIT # 25-00091).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register June 20 on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CVD 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 June 20 on AD/CVD proceedings: