The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Nov. 24 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Steel plate exporters Hyundai Steel and Dongkuk Steel Mill filed a pair of reply briefs at the Court of International Trade on Nov. 20, contesting the Commerce Department's de facto specificity regarding South Korea's discounted off-peak electricity prices in the 2022 administrative review of the countervailing duty order on cut-to-length carbon-quality steel plate from South Korea. Both companies contested Commerce's grouping of three unrelated industries to find that the steel industry received a disproportionate amount of the subsidy (Hyundai Steel v. United States, CIT Consol. # 24-00190).
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Nov. 21 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Court of International Trade sustained the Commerce Department's antidumping duty investigation on thermal paper from Germany after the parties challenging the proceeding withdrew their challenge following the trade court's decision last month in Domtar v. U.S.
Antidumping duty petitioner American Paper Plate Coalition on Nov. 20 pushed back against respondent Fuzhou Hengli Paper's bid to add an "Excel datafile" to the record in the respondent's case against the AD investigation on paper plates from China on the basis that the document was never properly presented to the Commerce Department in the investigation (Fuzhou Hengli Paper v. United States, CIT # 25-00064).
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Nov. 20 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department universally tolled all "Enforcement and Compliance deadlines" for 47 days, the effective length of the federal government shutdown, save for submissions due during the shutdown and requests for administrative reviews of suspension agreements and antidumping and countervailing duty orders.
Petitioner Wheatland Tube Company opposed Nov. 17 the Commerce Department’s redetermination on remand in an antidumping duty scope case on dual-stenciled pipe, saying that the “entire house of cards on which the Remand Order was built has now collapsed” since the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed a Court of International Trade ruling on another suit (Saha Thai Steel Pipe Public Company v. United States, CIT # 21-00049).
The Commerce Department failed to provide notice of any reporting deficiencies related to antidumping duty respondent Fuzhou Hengli Paper Co.'s paperboard input reporting, and the agency was on notice of any alleged deficiency, since the respondent's reporting methodology was "obvious," Fuzhou Hengli argued in a Nov. 17 reply brief at the Court of International Trade (Fuzhou Hengli Paper v. United States, CIT # 25-00064).
AD/CVD petitioner Magnesia Carbon Bricks Fair Trade Committee asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to speed up its appeal on the Commerce Department's decision to exclude seven types of bricks imported by Fedmet Resources Corp. from the scope of the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders on magnesia carbon bricks from China. The petitioner said the relief it's seeking is "modest," and that a sped-up briefing schedule is needed to "prevent competitive harms" to the "domestic refractory-brick industry" that should be subject to "significant AD/CVD duties" (Fedmet Resources v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 26-1160).