The International Trade Commission is issuing a limited exclusion order banning imports of dermatological treatment devices (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1356) from EndyMed Medical Ltd., it said in a June 9 notice. Additionally, the ITC set a bond in the amount of 85% of the entered value of the EndyMed Pure, and 70% of the entered value of the EndyMed Pro infringing products imported during the period of presidential review, and issued cease and desist orders against the companies. The ITC terminated the investigation with respect to the four patents at issue. The order concludes in part the Section 337 investigation the ITC launched in July 2024, based on allegations by Serendia that 15 companies are importing and selling merchandise that copies its patented methods and items for treating skin tissue using bipolar electrodes in portable devices (see 2304050064). For the remaining ’444 patent, the Commission determined to remand to the ALJ for further proceedings and extended the target date to July 8.
The International Trade Commission has ended another Section 337 investigation on imports from Ericsson (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1388), it said in a June 11 notice. Complainant Motorola initially alleged in 2024 that Ericsson was importing cellular base station equipment that infringes on patents held by Motorola (see 2401240041).
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register June 12 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):
A domestic producer recently filed a petition with the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission requesting new antidumping and countervailing duties on steel concrete reinforcing bar from Algeria, Bulgaria, Egypt, and Vietnam. Commerce now will decide whether to begin AD/CVD investigations, which could result in the imposition of permanent AD/CVD orders and the assessment of AD and CVD on importers. The Rebar Trade Action Coalition requested the investigation.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on stainless steel bar from India (A-533-810). In the final results of this review, Commerce may set assessment rates for subject merchandise from eight companies entered Feb. 1, 2023, through Jan. 31, 2024.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its countervailing duty administrative review on cut-to-length carbon-quality steel plate from South Korea (C-580-837). Commerce will assess CVD on importers at the rates determined in the final results of this review for subject merchandise entered during the period Jan. 1, 2023, through Dec. 31, 2023.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on frozen warmwater shrimp from India (A-533-840). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set assessment rates for subject merchandise for the 101 companies under review entered February 2023 through January 2024.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its countervailing duty administrative reviews on wood mouldings and millwork from China (C-570-118). In the final results of this review, Commerce will set CVD assessment rates for subject merchandise for the companies under review entered Jan. 1, 2023, through Dec. 31, 2023.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on frozen warmwater shrimp from Vietnam (A-552-802). The agency preliminarily determined that 24 companies under review qualify for a separate rate, and another 146 companies didn't, making the second set of companies part of the Vietnam-wide entity that is subject to the Vietnam-wide entity rate of 25.76%.
The Commerce Department has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on crystalline silicon photovoltaic products from Taiwan (A-583-853). Rates calculated in this review will be used to set assessment rates for importers of subject merchandise from the one mandatory respondent, exporter EEPV Corp., that was entered Feb. 1, 2023, through Jan. 31, 2024.