Comments are due Nov. 13 to the Commerce Department on the scope of coverage of its newly begun antidumping duty investigations on aluminum extrusions from China, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Vietnam (A-570-158, A-301-806, A-247-004, A-331-804, A-533-920, A-560-840, A-475-846, A-580- 918, A-557-826, A-201-860, A-583-874, A-549-847, A-489-850, A-520-810, A-552-837), and countervailing duty investigations on aluminum extrusions from China, Indonesia, Mexico and Turkey (C-570-159, C-560-841, C-201-861, C-489-851).
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in an Oct. 26 order granted a two-week extension for exporter Tau-Ken Temir and Kazakhstan's Ministry of Trade and Integration to file their reply brief in a case on the countervailing duty investigation on silicon metal from Kazakhstan. TKT and the trade ministry recently also asked the court for an additional 7,000 words in the reply brief, prompting the court to stay briefing until it can resolve the motion for the expanded word count (Tau-Ken Temir v. U.S., Fed. Cir. # 22-2204).
The U.S. asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit for approval to use 3,000 more words in its reply brief in a case on the use of the Cohen's d test to root out "masked" dumping. The government said each of the three issues raised in the case is "complex and technical in nature." It said they cover two accounting issues and the intricacies of a statistical method, creating "good cause" for the additional words (Marmen v. U.S., Fed. Cir. # 23-1877).
The Commerce Department flipped its position on remand to find that exporter Yama Ribbons and Bows Co. didn't use China's Export Buyer's Credit Program, though it did continue to find that the exporter benefited from the provision of caustic soda and synthetic yarn for less than adequate remuneration (Yama Ribbons and Bows Co. v. United States, CIT # 21-00402).
The Commerce Department's decision to initiate an antidumping duty investigation on oil country tubular goods from Argentina was based on data from an "anomalous period" in 2020 with "unprecedented market conditions" that were unrepresentative of the OCTG market, plaintiffs led by Tenaris Bay City said in an Oct. 20 support motion at the Court of International Trade (Tenaris Bay City, et al. v. U.S., CIT # 22-00343).
The government hasn't justified its decision to keep a vast majority of the information confidential as part of Chinese printer cartridge maker Ninestar Corp.'s case against its placement on the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List, Ninestar argued. Filing its opposition to the U.S.'s motion to enter an amended protective order on Oct. 23 at the Court of International Trade, the exporter said the motion would "give the Government essentially unreviewable discretion to seal information, placing it beyond Ninestar's review" and is just "another bid for delay and distraction" (Ninestar Corp. v. United States, CIT # 23-00182).
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NetChoice believes its court challenge to SB-396, the Arkansas age-verification Social Media Safety Act, “is appropriate for resolution as a matter of law,” and it therefore “intends to file an early dispositive motion” to that effect, said its position statement in a joint Rule 26(f) report Monday (docket 5:23-cv-05105) in U.S. District Court for Western Arkansas in Fayetteville.
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Kazakh silicon metal exporter Tau-Ken Temir (TKT) and the Kazakh Ministry of Trade and Integration asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit for 7,000 more words for its reply brief in a case on the countervailing duty investigation on silicon metal from Kazakhstan. The exporter and the government agency said they need double its current word count to respond to the reply briefs filed by the U.S. and the petitioners, which collectively are over 20,000 words (Tau-Ken Temir v. U.S., Fed. Cir. # 22-2204).