The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the weeks of July 14-20 and 21-27:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website July 28, 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 CBP's ADCVD Search page.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register July 28 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 has published the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on large diameter welded pipe from Turkey (A-489-833), calculating a zero percent AD rate for HDM Celik Boru Sanayi Ve Ticaret A.S., the one mandatory respondent, and applying that rate to another company not selected for individual review, Emek Boru Makine Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. If the agency's finding is continued in the final results, importers of subject merchandise from HDM Celik and Emek Boru entered between May 1, 2023, and April 30, 2024, won't be assessed AD, and future entries from HDM Celik and Emek Boru wouldn't be subject to an AD cash deposit requirement until further notice.
The Commerce Department has published the final results of the countervailing duty administrative review on forged steel fluid end blocks from Germany (C-428-848). These final results will be used to set final assessments of CVD on importers of subject merchandise entered Jan. 1, 2023, through Dec. 31, 2023.
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the antidumping duty administrative review on softwood lumber products from Canada (A-122-857). These final results will be used to set final assessments of AD on importers for subject merchandise entered Jan. 1, 2023, through Dec. 31, 2023.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on July 28 sustained the Commerce Department's non-market economy policy in antidumping duty proceedings despite the fact that the agency hadn't codified the policy in its regulations at the time the underlying review was challenged. Judges Todd Hughes, William Bryson and Leonard Stark said the Federal Circuit has a long line of cases upholding the policy and that, even if those cases didn't exist, Commerce didn't need to engage in notice-and-comment rulemaking to implement the policy.
Importer Grosfillex agreed to pay $4.9 million to settle claims that it violated the False Claims Act by evading antidumping and countervailing duties on items made with aluminum extrusions from China, DOJ announced. The FCA case was initially filed by Edward Wisner, a former employee of Grosfillex and whistleblower in the case, who will receive a $962,662.74 cut of the settlement.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
A listing of recent Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty messages posted on CBP's website July 25, 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 CBP's ADCVD Search page.