The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of a countervailing duty administrative review of multilayered wood flooring from China (C-570-971). This review covers subject merchandise from the exporters under review entered during the period Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on polyethylene retail carrier bags from Malaysia (A-557-813). Commerce calculated a zero percent AD rate for the only company under review, Euro SME Sdn. Bhd. and its affiliate Euro Nature Green Sdn. Bhd., unchanged from the preliminary results. Subject merchandise from Euro SME entered Aug. 1, 2022, through July 31, 2023, won't be assessed AD. The new zero percent AD cash deposit rate takes effect for Euro SME and its affiliate March 21, the date these final results are to be published in the Federal Register.
The Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner closed its informal preliminary investigation into X's use of data for training its AI system Grok, it announced Thursday. It found that X users can refuse to have their public messages used for AI training, and that the platform is in compliance with the country's privacy law.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices March 20 on AD/CVD proceedings:
In another missed deadline case (see 2501070084, 2409100065) and 2501270069), Chinese steel rack exporter Nanjing Dongsheng Shelf Manufacturing said again March 17 that the Commerce Department shouldn’t have hit it with adverse facts available for assuming a deadline extension offered to most separate rate review respondents had also been granted to it (Nanjing Dongsheng Shelf Manufacturing Co. v. United States, CIT # 24-00085).
Suspension of liquidation for paper plates from China, Vietnam and Thailand will resume March 19, after the Commerce Department issued antidumping duty orders on paper plates from China (A-570-164), Thailand (A-549-849) and Vietnam (A-552-839), and countervailing duty orders on paper plates from China (C-570-165) and Vietnam (C-552-840).
Oral argument is scheduled for April 2 at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in NetChoice, LLC v. Bonta. Case 25-146 concerns California’s 2024 law (SB-976) that places restrictions on social media feeds for minors. These restrictions pose privacy and security risks, consumer privacy advocates say (see 2502070019).
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website March 18, 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.
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The Commerce Department said on remand at the Court of International Trade that importer Hardware Resources' edge-glued wood boards are wood mouldings and millwork products subject to antidumping and countervailing duty orders on that product from China (Hardware Resources v. United States, CIT # 23-00150).