The Commerce Department unlawfully expanded the scope of antidumping and countervailing duty orders on magnesia alumina carbon bricks (MAC bricks) from China in a covered merchandise inquiry during an Enforce and Protect Act remand investigation regarding Fedmet's importation of MAC bricks, Fedmet argued in a June 12 complaint at the Court of International Trade (Fedmet Resource Corporation v. U.S., CIT # 23-00117).
Tire exporter Pirelli's claim that the labelling of its board members as "independent" under Italian law requires the Commerce Department to find that the company rebutted the presumption of Chinese state control "misses the mark," the Court of International Trade ruled on June 9. Again upholding the 2017-18 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on passenger vehicle and light truck tires from China, Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves said the question for Commerce is whether Pirelli rebutted the presumption of Chinese state control, not control by another company, which is what the "independent" label measures.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices June 12 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., Agriculture Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and three Republican senators reintroduced the China Trade Cheating Restitution Act to require CBP to pay interest on distributions of antidumping duties and countervailing duties to domestic producers under the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act, which applies to entries prior to Sept. 30, 2007.
The U.S. demanded a jury in a customs penalty suit filed against Florida businessman Zhe "John" Liu and one of his companies, AB MA Distribution, in a June 8 notice at the Court of International Trade. The government asked for the jury "on all issues of fact, including the quantum of penalties owed." The U.S. filed the suit to collect over $10 million in unpaid duties and penalties from Liu and AB MA, alleging that the parties transshipped steel wire hangers via India and Thailand to avoid paying antidumping and other duties on steel wire hangers from China (see 2306080027) (U.S. v. Zhe "John" Liu and AB MA Distribution Corporation, CIT # 23-00116).
The Court of International Trade granted the Commerce Department's request for a remand to reconsider its calculations of constructed value, CV profit cap and constructed export price profit for countervailing duty respondent Hyundai Steel in the 2019-20 review of the CVD order on oil country tubular goods from South Korea. Hyundai claimed that Commerce's use of exporter SeAH Steel Corp.'s third-country sales data for calculating these figures unreasonably used data that failed to represent Hyundai's actual experience.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices June 9 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The following lawsuits were recently filed at the Court of International Trade:
If the antidumping rate on activated carbon from China is lowered on Chinese exporter Jilin Bright Future Chemicals, Commerce should recalculate and re-assign the rates assigned to separate rate respondents Cherishmet and Yunguang, the two companies argued in a June 8 motion for judgment at the Court of International Trade (Jilin Bright Future Chemicals Co. v. U.S., CIT # 22-00336).
The Commerce Department erred in finding that exporter Asia Wheel Co.'s trailer wheels are within the scope of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on steel wheels 12 to 16.5 inches in diameter from China, the company said in a June 8 complaint at the Court of International Trade (Asia Wheel Co. v. United States, CIT # 23-00096).