The International Trade Commission will consider whether to issue a general exclusion order banning all imports of network equipment supporting NETCONF standards that allegedly infringe patents held by Optimum Communications Services (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1391), the ITC said in a March 4 notice. Optimum's January complaint said imports of the goods, used for network management systems for managing remote network elements, violate Section 337 by infringing on its patented technologies that “improve cost-efficiency, reliability and performance of network configuration and monitoring" (see 2401250040). The ITC will also consider cease and desist orders against Changsha Silun, Hunan Maiqiang, Hunan Zikun and Guangzhou Qiton, it said.
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register March 4 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 has released 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 four companies entered Feb. 1, 2022, through Jan. 31, 2023. It has preliminarily determined that there is no dumping by the companies under review.
The Commerce Department on has released 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 35 companies under review entered February 2022 through January 2023.
The Commerce Department issued 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 reviews, Commerce will set CVD assessment rates for subject merchandise for the companies under review entered Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department has released the preliminary results of a countervailing duty administrative review of common alloy aluminum sheet from China (C-570-074). This review covers subject merchandise from the exporters under review entered during the period Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022.
The Commerce Department began administrative reviews for certain firms subject to antidumping and countervailing duty orders with January anniversary dates, it said in a notice. Producers and exporters subject to any of these administrative reviews on China must submit their separate rate certifications or applications by April 4 in order to avoid being assigned high China-wide rates.
On March 1, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service on March 1 announced a ban on imports of live swine, swine germoplasm and unprocessed pork products and byproducts from Albania, after detecting African swine fever in the country. The announcement follows a similar ban announced in January on swine and pork from neighboring Montenegro (see 2401240039).
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on March 4: