Mueller Comercial appealed a Court of International Trade ruling that affirmed the Commerce Department’s decision to partially apply adverse facts available (AFA) to determine Mueller’s antidumping duty rate, despite Mueller’s full cooperation in the 2008-09 AD administrative review on circular welded non-alloy steel pipe from Mexico (A-201-805). Commerce had used AFA on incomplete cost data needed from one of Mueller’s suppliers. CIT said that the uncooperative supplier would have benefited from a lower AD rate without the partial application of AFA, so use of AFA was justified, despite the fact that Mueller cooperated. Despite ruling in December (see 12122604), the court didn’t enter judgment until May 2.
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the International Trade Administration posted to CBP's website May 7, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at addcvd.cbp.gov. (CBP occasionally adds backdated messages without otherwise indicating which message was added. ITT will include a message date in parentheses in such cases.)
Bracewell & Giuliani hired Anne Northrup, previously commissioner on the Consumer Product Safety Commission, to work in the firm’s Policy Resolution Group in Washington, D.C. Northup was a five-term member of the House of Representatives 1997-2006, representing the Kentucky 3rd District.
Sunoco Logistics Partners and Lone Star NGL said they have signed long-term fee agreements with Shell Trading US Company to move forward with a liquefied petroleum gas export/import project. Sunoco Logistics is an affiliate of Energy Transfer Partners, while Lone Star is a joint venture between ETP and Regency Energy Partners. The Mariner South project will integrate Sunoco Logistics’ existing Nederland Marine Terminal and pipeline from Mont Belvieu, Texas to Nederland, Texas, with Lone Star’s Mont Belvieu fractionation and storage facilities, the companies said in a press release.
The Drug Enforcement Administration placed the drug lorcaserin into Schedule IV of the Controlled Substances Act. The weight loss drug had been approved by the Food and Drug Administration in June 2012. Effective June 7, lorcaserin will be subject to new registration, labeling, recordkeeping, and import and export requirements, among other things.
The International Trade Commission is publishing notices in the May 7 Federal Register on the following AD/CV injury, Section 337 patent, and other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will appear in another ITT article):
The Commerce Department published notices in the May 7 Federal Register 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 the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on activated carbon from China (A-570-904). The agency preliminarily denied Jacobi Carbons' request for company specific-revocation, because the company has not been assigned three consecutive zero rates -- Commerce found dumping by the company in the final results of the previous administrative review. These preliminary results are not in effect. Commerce may modify them in the final results of this review and change the estimated AD cash deposit rate for these companies.
Hanukkah candles imported and sold by Rite-Lite all are covered by the antidumping duty order on petroleum wax candles from China (A-570-504), said the Commerce Department in an April 30 scope ruling.
On May 6 the Food and Drug Administration posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of: