The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register July 16 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 investigation on large top mount combination refrigerator-freezers from Thailand (A-549-853). The agency will determine whether imports of Thai refrigrator-freezers are being sold in the U.S. at less than fair value. The investigation covers entries from Thailand during the period April 1, 2023, through March 31, 2024.

The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on steel nails from Taiwan (A-583-854). Rates calculated in this review will be used to set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise from 23 exporters remaining in the review that was entered July 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023.

A U.S. producer seeks the imposition of new antidumping and countervailing duties on imports of tungsten shot from China, it said in petitions filed July 9 with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission. Commerce will now decide whether to begin AD/CVD investigations, which could result in the imposition of permanent AD/CVD orders on tungsten shot.

The Commerce Department issued antidumping duty orders on mattresses from Bosnia and Herzegovina (A-893-002), Bulgaria (A-487-001), Myanmar (formerly Burma) (A-546-001), Italy (A-475-845), the Philippines (A-565-804), Poland (A-455-807), Slovenia (A-856-002) and Taiwan (A-583-873). The orders detail a “gap period” of June 29 - July 4, 2024, of no AD duty liability.

The International Trade Commission will consider a general exclusion order banning all imports of eye cosmetics and related packaging that Amarte USA says infringe on its trademarks, the ITC said in a notice July 16 launching a Section 337 investigation. In a complaint filed in May (see 2405290041), Amarte said several companies are selling eye creams, eye palettes, eye patches, eye serums and eyelashes that use identical or similar names to its trademarked Eyeconic brand. The ITC will also consider cease and desist orders against the following respondents to its investigation:

The International Trade Commission seeks comments by July 22 on a recent Section 337 complaint filed by MimirIP alleging imports of NAND devices from Micron and electronic devices from several of its downstream customers are infringing its patents. In its July 8 complaint, MimirIP said Micron is manufacturing NAND memory devices that copy its patented manufacturing methods and chip structure, which are in turn incorporated into consumer electronics from Acer, HP, Kingston and Lenovo. MimirIP seeks a limited exclusion order and cease and desist order banning the import and sale of infringing products from all five accused companies.

The International Trade Commission recently began a Section 337 investigation into allegations from MimirIP that imports from several companies are infringing on its patents on memory devices, it said in a notice last week. In its June complaint (see 2406070045, MimirIP said Micron, Dell, Hewlett Packard, Kingston, Lenovo and Tesla are importing DRAM and NAND computer memory or products that contain them, including laptops, tablets, servers, solid-state drives and self-driving automotive computers and automotive media control units. In the investigation, the ITC will consider a limited exclusion order and cease and desist orders against the six companies banning importation and sale of infringing merchandise.

The Commerce Department on July 12 released a proposed rule updating various aspects of its antidumping and countervailing duty regulations. The agency said the changes largely "codify existing procedures and methodologies" and also "create or revise" provisions related to the "collection of cash deposits," use of AD rates on nonmarket economy nations, calculation of an all-others' rate, respondent selection and "attribution of subsidies received by cross-owned input producers and utility providers to producers of subject merchandise."

The Commerce Department is finalizing antidumping duties on importers of certain hydrofluorocarbon blends from Turkey and China. The agency found in its final determinations in a trio of anti-circumvention inquiries that imports of the blends from Turkey and China are circumventing the AD order on hydrofluorocarbon blends from China (A-570-028).