The writing profession is under threat from state legislators seeking to strengthen public libraries’ hand in negotiations with e-book publishers like Amazon, Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., told us Wednesday. Library advocates said in interviews that e-book laws in Maryland and New York are an important step in ensuring libraries maintain their role in society.
The Commerce Department should have reopened the record during its voluntary remand period to consider the question of affiliation between antidumping duty respondent OCTAL and one of its U.S. customers, OCTAL told the Court of International Trade in a Dec. 22 reply brief. Since Commerce raised the issue so late in the AD review, the record wasn't "high quality" and OCTAL didn't have a chance to properly respond to the affiliation accusations, OCTAL said (OCTAL v. U.S., CIT #20-03697).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Jan. 5 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 Jan. 4 on AD/CV duty proceedings:
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Jan. 4 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 International Trade Commission posted the 2022 Preliminary Edition of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule. The new HTS does not include the five-year World Customs Organization Harmonized System update, which will take effect toward the end of January at the end of a 30-day period following their proclamation Dec. 27 (see 2112270032). It does, however, implement annual changes to 10-digit "statistical" provisions of the tariff schedule, as well as the removal of Ethiopia, Mali and Guinea from the African Growth and Opportunity Act preferences program and a new tariff-rate quota system for iron and steel and aluminum from the EU. These changes took effect Jan. 1.
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on welded line pipe from Turkey (A-489-822). The agency preliminarily said the only company remaining under review, Cimtas Boru Imalatlari ve Ticaret, Ltd. Sti., had no exports of subject merchandise to the U.S. during the period under review. If Commerce's “no shipments” finding for Cimtas is continued in the final results, subject merchandise from the company will continue to enter at AD rates set in the most recent previous review, and any entries filed with Cimtas' case number entered Dec. 1, 2019, through Nov. 30, 2020, will be liquidated at the all-others rate. Commerce will make its final decision when it issues the final results of this review, currently due in May.
The Commerce Department is recognizing a Chinese company’s name change for the purposes of antidumping duties on steel propane cylinders from China (A-570-086). The agency upheld its preliminary finding that Yi Jun Hong Kong Ltd. (Yi Jun) is the successor-in-interest to Hong Kong GSBF Co. Ltd. (GSBF) (see 2111180055), in the final results of a changed circumstances review released Jan. 3. The agency found that Yi Jun continues to operate as the same business entity other than the change in name, therefore Yi Jun will inherit the AD duty rate assigned to GSBF, currently 43.65%.
The Commerce Department on Jan. 3 released the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (R-134a) from China (A-570-044). The agency assigned the only exporter under review, Puremann, Inc., to the China-wide entity, with a rate of 167.02%, after the company failed to submit an application for a separate rate. Any changes to cash deposit rates for Puremann would take effect on the publication date of the final results of this review. If this rate is confirmed in the final results, Commerce would assess AD duties at the 167.02% China-wide rate for subject merchandise from Puremann entered April 1, 2020, through March 31, 2021.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on frozen warmwater shrimp from Thailand (A-549-822). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered Feb. 1, 2019, through Jan. 31, 2020.