The Commerce Department has published the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on steel propane cylinders from Thailand (A-549-839). Commerce set an AD rate of 3.18% for Sahamitr Pressure Container Plc., the only company under review, the same rate as in the preliminary results of the review. Subject merchandise from Sahamitr entered Aug. 1, 2022, through July 31, 2023, will be liquidated at importer-specific rates, Commerce said. The 3.18% AD duty cash deposit rate for Sahamitr is effective March 4, the date the final results were published in the Federal Register.

The International Trade Commission published notices in the March 4 Federal Register on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) 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 has ended a Section 337 investigation on imports of medical programmers with printed circuit boards from Axonics (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1396), it said in a notice to be published March 5. Complainant Medtronic initially alleged in 2024 that Axonics is importing sacral neuromodulation systems that rely on its patented technology, including devices for use with Axonics’ F15 and R20 sacral neuromodulation systems (see 2404020033).

The International Trade Commission is beginning a Section 337 investigation on glass substrates liquid crystal displays (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1441) after receiving allegations filed by Corning Inc. that LG, Hisense, HKC, and six other companies are importing products that infringe its patents, the agency said in a March 3 press release.

The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register March 4 on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) proceedings (any notices that announce changes to AD/CVD rates, scope, affected firms or effective dates will be detailed in another ITT article):

The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that in an automatic five-year sunset review scheduled to begin in April it will consider revoking the countervailing duty order on chlorinated isocyanurates from China (C-570-991). This order will be revoked unless Commerce finds that revocation would lead to countervailable subsidization and the International Trade Commission finds that revocation would result in injury to U.S. industry, Commerce said.

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission began five-year sunset reviews of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on wooden cabinets and vanities from China (A-570-106/C-570-107), as well as the AD order on small diameter graphite electrodes from China (A-570-929) and the suspended AD/CVD investigations on sugar from Mexico (A-201-845/C-201-846), Commerce said in a notice March 3.

The Commerce Department announced the opportunity to request administrative reviews by March 31 for producers and exporters subject to 35 antidumping duty orders, 21 countervailing duty orders and two suspended AD/CVD investigations with March anniversary dates.

The International Trade Commission published notices in the March 3 Federal Register on the following antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) 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 input on remedies for its Section 337 investigation on Nokia's imported laptop and desktop computers, tablet computers, streaming devices, televisions, cameras and components (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1380), the ITC said in a notice to be published March 4. The ITC initiated the investigation in December 2023 based on allegations that HP and Amazon were importing various electronics that infringe seven of Nokia's patents covering motion compensated prediction inventions, improvements to video decoding techniques, encoding and decoding, and video compression (see 2311030010). The ITC partially terminated the investigation with respect to HP in December and the administrative law judge subsequently found a Section 337 violation by Amazon. The ITC is reviewing the ALJ's determination and is requesting written submissions by “close of business” on March 13.