The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on polyethylene terephthalate film from Taiwan (A-583-837). Commerce continued to find, as it did in the preliminary results of this review, that Nan Ya Plastics Corp. did not undersell subject merchandise during the period of review, assigning the company a zero percent AD duty rate. Subject merchandise from Nan Ya entered between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020, will be liquidated without any assessment of AD duties, and future entries of subject merchandise exported by Nan Ya won't be subject to AD duty cash deposit requirements until further notice. The new AD duty cash deposit rate takes effect Jan. 27, when the final results are set to be published in the Federal Register.
The International Trade Commission announced Jan. 25 that it voted to review in part a determination by an administrative law judge in a Section 337 investigation regarding artificial eyelash extensions (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1226). The Oct. 28 determination found no violation of Section 337 had occurred. That determination came one year after the investigation was instituted in October 2020, following a complaint by Lashify that alleged infringement of four patents by nine named respondents, including CVS and Walmart.
Apple seeks a Section 337 import ban on Ericsson cellular base station communication equipment. In a complaint filed Jan. 19, Apple asked for a limited exclusion order and cease and desist orders against Ericsson. In the complaint, Apple accuses Ericsson of improperly using standard essential patents and non-standard essential patents "as ammunition to coerce Apple ... to take an unfair, unreasonable, and discriminatory license" to Ericsson's patents. The move comes one week after Ericsson filed three separate complaints (see 2201210007) with the ITC in which Ericsson said several models of Apple product iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, HomePads and Apple TVs infringe on 12 of its patents. Written submissions on public interest in this case are due to the ITC by Feb. 3.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Jan. 25 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 issued a Federal Register notice on its recently initiated antidumping duty investigations on lemon juice from Brazil (A-351-858) and South Africa (A-791-827). The agency will determine whether imports of lemon juice are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The investigations cover entries during the period Oct. 1, 2020, through Sept. 30, 2021.
The Commerce Department issued its final determinations in its countervailing duty investigations on granular polytetrafluoroethylene resin from India (C-533-900) and Russia (C-821-830). Suspension of liquidation is currently not in effect for entries on or after Nov. 3, 2021, and Commerce will only require cash deposits of estimated CV duties on future entries if it issues a CV duty order.
The Commerce Department issued its final determinations in the antidumping duty investigations on granular polytetrafluoroethylene from India (A-533-889) and Russia (A-821-829). Cash deposit rates set in this final determination take effect Jan. 25.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Jan. 24 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 Commerce Department, in the final results of a changed circumstances review released Jan. 24, is recognizing a name change for a Turkish company for the purposes of antidumping duties on heavy walled rectangular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Turkey (A-489-824). The agency upheld its preliminary finding that Ozdemir Boru Profil Sanayi ve Ticaret Sirketi (A.S.) (Ozdemir AS) is the successor-in-interest to Ozdemir Boru Profil Sanayi ve Ticaret Limited Sirketi (Ozdemir Ltd. Sti.). The agency found that Ozdemir AS continues to operate as the same business entity other than the name change. Ozdemir AS will inherit the AD duty rate assigned to Ozdemir Ltd. Sti., currently 35.66%.
The Commerce Department announced that it incorrectly excluded two companies from lists of exporters/producers in announcing final results of the antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews on softwood lumber products from Canada (A-122-857/C-122-858), for the 2019 calendar year, in December 2021. Commerce said Fraserview Remanufacturing Inc., d.b.a. Fraserview Cedar Products should have been on the list of the companies under review in the antidumping duty investigation. The entry is corrected to read: 752615 B.C Ltd; Fraserview Remanufacturing Inc., d.b.a. Fraserview Cedar Products. In a separate notice, Commerce said it "inadvertently omitted" Carter Forest Products Inc. from the list of exporters/producers under review in the concurrent countervailing duty investigation. The company was not listed, as it should have been, in Appendix II of the final results notice as being among the firms subject to the review that received the non-selected subsidy rate that Commerce applied to those firms not individually examined. Commerce noted that the company remained off the list incorrectly in the amended final CVD results.