The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on steel nails from Malaysia (A-557-816). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered July 1, 2019, through June 30, 2020. No AD duties will be assessed on the three companies assigned zero percent AD duty rates.
The Commerce Department made preliminary affirmative antidumping determinations that urea ammonium nitrate solutions from Russia (A-821-831) and Trinidad and Tobago (A-274-808) are being sold at less than fair value. The agency will impose AD duty cash requirements on entries of subject merchandise beginning on Feb. 2, the publication date of these preliminary determinations in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department made preliminary affirmative antidumping duty determinations that imports of acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber from France (A-827-832), Mexico (A-201-855) and South Korea (A-580-912) are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The agency will impose AD duty cash requirements retroactively on entries of subject merchandise from all French companies except Arlanxeo, and all South Korean companies except Kumho, beginning Nov. 4, 2021. For Arlanxeo, Kumho and all Mexican exporters, suspension of liquidation and cash deposit requirements take effect Feb. 2, 2022.
Dolby’s memorandum of law in opposition to LG’s motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction was due Monday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, but it may take at least a week for the public to see even a redacted version of the filing. A joint stipulation and order signed Jan. 26 by U.S. District Judge Paul Crotty instructs Dolby to propose redaction of sensitive business information for the public filing, giving LG until the close of business Feb. 7 to propose additional redactions, before both sides meet and confer on the release of the public version. The process repeats itself after LG files a reply memorandum on Feb. 14, said Crotty’s order. LG alleges Dolby violated the Sherman Antitrust Act and California unfair competition laws by reneging on its commitments to ATSC to license its AC-4 audio codec patents for NextGenTV on fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory (FRAND) terms (see 2201060058). All unredacted documents in the case are being filed under seal, and the few clues to emerge from the heavily redacted public filings so far suggest LG is trying to enjoin Dolby from suspending or canceling its license to unspecified Dolby technologies over the FRAND allegations.
The Commerce Department is beginning an anti-circumvention inquiry to determine whether all imports of stainless steel round wire from Vietnam made using South Korean stainless steel wire rod are circumventing antidumping duties on stainless steel wire rod from South Korea (A-580-829), it said in a notice released Jan. 31.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on heavy-walled rectangular welded pipes and tubes from Turkey (C-489-825). Commerce found the only company under review, Ozdemir Boru Profil San. Ve Tic. Ltd. Sti, received de minimis illegal subsidies during the period of review, assigning it a zero percent CV duty rate. Subject merchandise from Ozdemir entered Jan. 1, 2019, through Dec. 31, 2019, will be liquidated without any assessment of CV duties, and future entries of subject merchandise from Ozdemir will not be subject to CV duty cash deposit requirements until further notice. Changes to cash deposit rates from these final results take effect Feb. 1, the date these final results are set for publication in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of its countervailing duty administrative review on polyethylene film, sheet and strip (PET film) from India (C-533-825). Based on comments received, the agency said, it revised the CVD rates published in the preliminary results for all companies. Commerce will set final assessments of CV duties on importers for subject merchandise from four companies entered Jan. 1, 2019, through Dec. 31, 2019. The new CV duty cash deposit rates take effect for entries from these companies on or after Feb. 1, the date these final results are to be published in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department on Jan. 21 issued a final scope ruling continuing to find "veneered panels" with only two layers of veneer are subject to antidumping and countervailing duties on hardwood plywood from China (A-570-051/C-570-052), and that their processing in Vietnam into plywood by adding face and back veneers does not substantially transform the panels into a product of Vietnam.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on polyethylene terephthalate film from India (A-533-824). Commerce continued its preliminary finding that Jindal Poly Films Ltd. and SRF Limited of India did not undersell subject merchandise during the period of review, assigning each company a zero percent AD duty rate. Subject merchandise from Jindal and SRF entered July 1, 2019, through June 30, 2020, will be liquidated without any assessment of AD duties, and future entries of subject merchandise exported by Jindal and SRF will not be subject to AD duty cash deposit requirements until further notice. The new AD duty cash deposit rate takes effect Feb. 1, when the final results are set to be published in the Federal Register.
California’s net neutrality law survived an appeal by ISP associations at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The panel’s Friday opinion that the FCC can’t preempt states after giving up its own broadband authority could affect ISP challenges of Vermont net neutrality and New York state affordable broadband laws, said legal experts.