The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on frozen fish fillets from Vietnam (A-552-801). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise, as may be applicable, entered August 2020 through July 2021.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is continuing to get criticism about the solar circumvention investigation, this time both from Republicans and Democrats, as she testified again in front of a Senate committee. She said that while she is not saying if the circumvention investigation will result in a finding, she wanted to address rhetoric that says the large majority of imported solar panels could be subject to a 200% tariff. On one company, it could actually be 270% (see 2205040015).
The International Trade Commission is seeking public interest comments following a final determination by one of its administrative law judges in a Section 337 investigation on polycrystalline diamond compacts (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1236). The ITC in a notice released May 12 said the ALJ issued a final determination on March 3 that found "at least one accused product infringes all asserted claims of the Asserted Patents, but those claims are invalid." The commission then decided to review the ALJ's determination and asked for public interest statements on the effects of a possible exclusion order and/or cease and desist orders.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate from Germany (A-428-844). The agency determined that the sole mandatory respondent, AG der Dillinger Hüttenwerke (Dillinger), did not make sales of subject goods from Germany at less than normal value during the period of review, May 1, 2020, through April 30, 2021. Subject merchandise from Dillinger entered between May 1, 2020, and April 30, 2021, will be liquidated without regard to antidumping duties. The new zero percent AD duty cash deposit rate takes effect May 13.
The Commerce Department will consider whether to create a new exemption for rectangular wire from antidumping and countervailing duties on aluminum extrusions from China (A-570-967/C-570-968), it said in a notice beginning a changed circumstances review. 3M requested the notice, and the Aluminum Extrusions Fair Trade Committee, which originally requested AD/CVD on solar products, said it doesn't oppose creating the exemption.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the May 11 Federal Register on the following AD/CV injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The International Trade Commission is seeking public interest comments following a final determination by one of its administrative law judges in a case concerning portable battery jump starters (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1256). The ITC in a notice released May 11 said the ALJ issued a final determination April 29 and recommended a general exclusion order and cease and desist orders. The case followed a Jan. 19, 2021, complaint by NOCO that alleged a long list of companies are manufacturing, importing and selling portable battery jump starters that infringe on NOCO's patent for an improved portable jump-starter incorporating a rechargeable lithium-ion battery and a microcontroller (see 2103220032).
Comments are due by the close of business on May 20 in Docket No. 3620 at the International Trade Commission on the public interest ramifications of a possible limited exclusion order and cease and desist order involving certain graphic systems, components thereof, and digital televisions containing the same, a Federal Register notice said. AMD is seeking the orders in a May 5 complaint to the ITC that alleges a Chinese technology conglomerate, TCL Industries Holdings, and "its various corporate relatives" have infringed on five patents issued to AMD between 2010 and 2019, and have imported graphics devices and televisions containing infringing items. The patents concern architectures for graphics processing unit circuitry to assist with the complex processing to render 3D graphics onto a 2D screen.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register May 11 on the following AD/CV duty proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CV duty rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department will lower the antidumping duty cash deposit rate in effect for an exporter of steel concrete reinforcing bar from Taiwan (A-583-859), implementing a recent Court of International Trade decision that sustained a Commerce recalculation of rates set in an administrative review completed in 2020 (see 2010070017), it said. As a result of its recalculation, the AD cash deposit rate for Power Steel will fall to zero (from 3.27%). The new rate will apply to subject merchandise effective May 8, 2022.