The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on welded line pipe from South Korea (A-580-876). The agency preliminarily set zero percent AD duty rate for SeAH Steel Corporation and a 1.93% rate for Hyundai Steel. Rates calculated in this review will be used to set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise from these producers and exporters that was entered December 2019 through November 2020.
The Commerce Department issued the preliminary results of a countervailing duty administrative review of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into modules, from China (C-570-980). This review covers subject merchandise from the exporters under review entered during the period Jan. 1, 2019, through Dec. 31, 2019.
The Commerce Department has issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on refillable stainless steel kegs (kegs) from China (A-570-093). The agency preliminarily assigned the mandatory respondent, Guangzhou Ulix Industrial & Trading Co., Ltd., a zero percent AD rate. If this rate is confirmed in the final results, Commerce would not assess AD duties for subject merchandise from Ulix entered between Dec. 13, 2019, and Nov. 30, 2020.
The Commerce Department issued the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on aluminum foil from China (A-570-053). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD duties on importers for subject merchandise entered April 1, 2019, through March 31, 2020.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Jan. 5 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 published notices in the Federal Register Jan. 5 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):
Future Link Systems seeks a ban on imports of integrated circuits and downstream products that allegedly infringe its patents, it told the International Trade Commission in a Section 337 complaint filed Dec. 29. Future Link says integrated circuits, processors, mobile phones, tablets, personal computers and smart home devices from Advanced Micro Devices, Amlogic, Apple, Broadcom, Qualcomm, Realtek, Dell, HP, Acer, Lenovo and Google copy its patented technologies. It seeks a limited exclusion order and cease and desist order against those companies. Comments are due to the ITC by Jan. 13.
A domestic producer filed a petition Dec. 29 with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission requesting new antidumping duties on lemon juice from Brazil and South Africa. Commerce will now decide whether to begin AD duty investigations. Ventura Coastal requested the investigation.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Jan. 3 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):
A U.S. manufacturer seeks the imposition of new antidumping and countervailing duties on steel nails from India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Turkey, as well as new CV duties on steel nails from Oman, it said in petitions filed with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission Dec. 30. Commerce will now decide whether to begin AD/CVD investigations, which could result in the imposition of permanent AD/CV duty orders and the assessment of AD and CV duties on importers.