The Commerce Department is beginning a new antidumping duty investigation on lattice boom crawler cranes from Japan, it said in a fact sheet released May 1. The underlying petition was filed in April (see 2504140065). The International Trade Commission is scheduled to make its preliminary injury determination by May 27. The investigation will continue only if the ITC finds injury. International Trade Today will provide more details upon publication of the initiation notices in the Federal Register.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from China (A-570-914/C-570-915). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD/CVD on importers for subject merchandise entered Aug. 1, 2022, through July 31, 2023, for AD and in calendar year 2022 for CVD.
NetChoice filed an amended complaint Friday against Mississippi over an age-verification law in a case that was recently remanded to the district court by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
CTIA urged the FCC to move aggressively to promote full-powered licensed use of 4 and 7/8 GHz spectrum ahead of the World Radiocommunication Conference in 2027. The Aerospace and Flight Test Radio Coordinating Council (AFTRCC), EchoStar and Kuiper Systems also responded to an FCC notice seeking comment on positions that the FCC’s WRC Advisory Committee approved last month (see 2504150032).
President Donald Trump and the Treasury Department asked a federal court Thursday to fully dissolve the preliminary injunction barring Treasury employees from accessing department systems that contain personally identifiable information (PII) or financial information of payees.
A disconnect exists between legislatures, the privacy laws they create and the litigation that results from them, said panelists during a Federal Communications Bar Association (FCBA) event on privacy litigation trends Thursday. Instead, this ecosystem results in great confusion, prompting a rise in privacy law-related cases, they said.
Tennessee's attorney general told a federal district court Thursday that a case about an Ohio law requiring age verification is wrong and dissimilar from one before it concerning a Tennessee age-verification law. AG Jonathan Skrmetti (R) urged the court to ignore the decision in NetChoice v. Yost and deny a preliminary injunction against his state's law.
A split federal appeals court Wednesday maintained a block on the Department of Government Efficiency's attempts to access the sensitive data of millions of people on Social Security.
The U.S. District Court for the District Columbia set a hearing for May 27 to hear two children's educational materials producers' motion for a preliminary injunction against all tariff action taken by President Donald Trump under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. In a text-only order, Judge Rudolph Contreras set the hearing to take place at 3 p.m. EDT both on the preliminary injunction bid and the U.S. government's motion to transfer the case to the Court of International Trade (Learning Resources v. Donald J. Trump, D.D.C. # 25-01248).
The U.S. offered its most fulsome defense of President Donald Trump's reciprocal tariffs to date, submitting a reply to a group of five importers' motion for a preliminary injunction and summary judgment at the Court of International Trade on April 29. The government argued that the text, context, history and purpose of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act lets the president impose tariffs and that IEEPA doesn't confer an unconstitutional delegation of authority to the president (V.O.S. Selections v. Donald J. Trump, CIT # 25-00066).