The Department of Energy is setting new energy efficiency standards for refrigerators, refrigerator-freezers and freezers that will require compliance in 2029 or 2030, depending on the product, it said in a direct final rule published Jan. 17.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Jan. 17 Federal Register on the following AD/CVD injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
The International Trade Commission seeks comments by Jan. 25 on a Section 337 complaint recently filed by Altronic that seeks a ban on imports of capacitive discharge ignition systems from Motortech that allegedly infringe on Altronic’s patents. Altronic says Motortech is making ignition systems for industrial internal combustion engines that copy its patented technologies. It seeks a limited exclusion order and cease and desist order banning such imports from the Germany-based Motortech and its affiliate Motortech Americas.
The International Trade Commission began a Section 337 investigation into allegations that Lenovo is importing electronic computing devices that infringe on Ericsson’s patents, the ITC said in a notice released Jan. 17. In a recently filed complaint (see 2312180060), Ericsson said Lenovo is importing laptop, desktop and chromebook computers and parts that include high efficiency video coding (HEVC or H.265) technology covered by several Ericsson patents. The ITC will consider whether to issue a limited exclusion order and cease and desist orders banning importation and sale of infringing devices by the following companies:
The Commerce Department has released the final results of the countervailing duty administrative review on pasta from Italy (C-475-819). Rates set in these final results will be used for final assessments of CV duties on importers for subject merchandise entered in calendar year 2021.
The Commerce Department is amending the final results released in December of the antidumping duty administrative review on large diameter welded pipe from Canada (A-122-863). Based on comments received after publication of the final results on Dec. 13, Commerce determined that it made a ministerial error in a calculation, with the result being that there was no dumping of subject merchandise during the review period May 1, 2021, through April 30, 2022.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission released a direct final rule Jan. 17 amending its safety standard for toys to incorporate the latest revisions to the ASTM voluntary industry standard, it said. The changes are effective April 20, unless CPSC receives a “significant adverse” comment by Feb 20.
On Jan. 16, the FDA posted new and revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
A scheduled FDA upgrade of its import operations database will lead to an outage from 10 p.m. Jan. 20 to 5 a.m. Jan. 21 EST, CBP said Jan. 17. This will affect the Interoperability Web Service (IWS), the FDA Import Trade Auxiliary Communications Systems (ITACS) and prior notice applications, except the Prior Notice System Interface (PNSI), the agency said in a CSMS message.
The FDA posted a document showing the information needed "for successful filing of Electronic Nicotine Delivery System (ENDS) products," CBP said in a CSMS message Jan. 17. The information needs to be provided to the customs broker on the shipment in order to avoid a delay of an FDA admissibility determination, CBP said. "*Please share this resource with your customs broker," the FDA said.