The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Jan. 24 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The following lawsuit was recently filed at the Court of International Trade:
The Court of International Trade in a Jan. 20 order dismissed a case on the 2020-21 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on activated carbon from China. Commerce originally tapped two mandatory respondents in the review, selecting Datong Juqiang Activated Carbon and Jilin Bright Future Chemicals. The agency gave Datong Juqing a zero percent dumping rate while assigning Jilin Bright a $0.62 per kilogram dumping margin. The agency then assigned separate rate respondents the same $0.62/kg rate it gave to Jilin Bright (Carbon Activated Tianjin Co., et al. v. United States, CIT #22-00335).
Under the Commerce Department's countervailing duty regulations, any subsidy on inputs dedicated to the downstream product must refer to subject merchandise, plaintiff Gujarat Fluorochemicals (GFL) argued in a Jan. 20 supplemental brief at the Court of International Trade. The exporter said it would be "illogical" to apply the regulation to inputs mainly used to make non-subject merchandise since this interpretation "would create a broader subsidy than provided by the statute" (Gujarat Fluorochemicals Limited v. United States, CIT # 22-00120).
Jacob Garten, former Commerce Department international trade compliance analyst, has joined Buchanan Ingersoll as a specialist in the Washington office, the firm announced. His practice will center on representing clients in trade remedy proceedings, including antidumping and countervailing duty investigations "and other aspects of international law," the firm said. At Commerce, Garten carried out AD/CVD investigations, reviews and circumvention inquiries for more than five years.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Jan. 23 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Court of International Trade dismissed a case contesting the International Trade Commission's antidumping duty investigation on oil country tubular goods from Argentina, Mexico, Russia and South Korea for lack of prosecution (Tenaris Bay City, Inc., et al. v. U.S., CIT # 22-00345). Plaintiffs Tenaris Bay City, Maverick Tube, Ipsco Tubulars and Siderca filed three other cases contesting the ITC's injury determination and the related antidumping duty investigation by the Department of Commerce (see 2301180047). Unlike the other cases, the Dec. 16 summons was never followed up on by the plaintiffs before it was dismissed by the court.
Russian exporter TMK Group on Jan. 20 filed a complaint at the Court of International Trade on the International Trade Commission's injury finding on oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from Russia that led to the imposition of a countervailing duty order on the goods. The three-count complaint challenges the commission's decision to cumulate imports from Russia with imports from Brazil, Mexico and South Korea; its analysis of South Korea's imports in the cumulation analysis; and its decision that material injury to the domestic industry was "by reason of imports" (TMK Group v. United States, CIT # 22-00346).
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Jan. 20 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The following lawsuit was recently filed at the Court of International Trade: