Steel wheel importer Rimco seeks relief at the Court of International Trade over the Commerce Department's all-others rate in a countervailing duty review by asking the court to order Commerce not to do something that it did not do in the first place, defendant-intervenor Dexstar Wheels said in a Jan. 24 brief. Asking the trade court to toss the case, Dexstar said that Rimco failed to state a claim for which relief can be granted since Commerce did not actually set an all-others rate in the review (Rimco v. United States, CIT #21-00588).
The House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said he will bring the massive America COMPETES bill up for a vote soon. While it may not need to attract any Republican votes to pass there, a bipartisan compromise will be necessary in conference. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., said that the Senate's U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA) was not adequate, aside from the issue that revenue measures, such as the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill, must start in the House. "This legislation is the boldest, best option we have to stand up to China’s harmful actions and support American workers, and I look forward to discussing these proposals further during our conference on the package with the Senate," he said.
The Commerce Department issued a Federal Register notice on its recently initiated antidumping duty investigations on lemon juice from Brazil (A-351-858) and South Africa (A-791-827). The agency will determine whether imports of lemon juice are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The investigations cover entries during the period Oct. 1, 2020, through Sept. 30, 2021.
The Commerce Department issued its final determinations in its countervailing duty investigations on granular polytetrafluoroethylene resin from India (C-533-900) and Russia (C-821-830). Suspension of liquidation is currently not in effect for entries on or after Nov. 3, 2021, and Commerce will only require cash deposits of estimated CV duties on future entries if it issues a CV duty order.
The Commerce Department issued its final determinations in the antidumping duty investigations on granular polytetrafluoroethylene from India (A-533-889) and Russia (A-821-829). Cash deposit rates set in this final determination take effect Jan. 25.
Antidumping respondent Cheng Shin Rubber Industry Co.'s bid to indefinitely extend a preliminary injunction should be rejected by the Court of International Trade, the Department of Justice said in a Jan. 18 brief. DOJ said that Cheng Shin failed to show that it will suffer immediate irreparable harm for its entries made beyond the original expiration date of the injunction -- June 30, 2022 -- and that if its entries beyond this date are at risk of being liquidated, that the exporter can just request an extension of the injunction (Cheng Shin Rubber Ind. Co. Ltd. v. U.S., CIT #21-00398).
Texas must file a brief by March 2 at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the state’s appeal of a preliminary injunction by U.S. District Court in Austin of the state’s social media law, the appeals court said Friday in case 21-51178.
The Commerce Department, in the final results of a changed circumstances review released Jan. 24, is recognizing a name change for a Turkish company for the purposes of antidumping duties on heavy walled rectangular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Turkey (A-489-824). The agency upheld its preliminary finding that Ozdemir Boru Profil Sanayi ve Ticaret Sirketi (A.S.) (Ozdemir AS) is the successor-in-interest to Ozdemir Boru Profil Sanayi ve Ticaret Limited Sirketi (Ozdemir Ltd. Sti.). The agency found that Ozdemir AS continues to operate as the same business entity other than the name change. Ozdemir AS will inherit the AD duty rate assigned to Ozdemir Ltd. Sti., currently 35.66%.
The Commerce Department violated the law when it found antidumping duty respondent Papierfabrik August Kohler's Blue4est developer-free paper to be within the scope of the AD duty order on thermal paper from Germany, the respondent told the Court of International Trade in a Jan. 21 complaint. Commerce, in its preliminary determination, found the Blue4est paper to be outside of the scope of the order but changed its decision in the final results. This decision wasn't based on a change in evidence but rather a "conclusory decision to ignore the limited scope of the term 'thermal paper' as defined in the petition," the respondent said (Koehler Paper SE v. U.S., CIT #21-00633).
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Jan. 21 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):