The International Trade Commission seeks comments by March 5 on a Section 337 complaint alleging that imports of video game devices infringe patents held by AX Wireless, it said in a notice to be published Feb. 25. According to the complaint, AX Wireless is seeking a limited exclusion order and cease and desist orders against Sony and Vantiva to bar from entry "Certain Video Game Consoles, Routers and Gateways, and Components" that violate the complainant's patents. The complainant describes the products as providing "advancements in communications systems, particularly ... within packet-based Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems."
The International Trade Commission seeks comments by March 5 on a Section 337 complaint alleging that imports of nasal devices infringe patents held by Aardvark Medical Inc., it said in a notice to be published Feb. 25. According to the complaint, the complainant is seeking a limited exclusion order and cease and desist orders against five Chinese and two U.S. companies to bar from entry "certain nasal devices and components thereof" that violate the complainant's patents. The complainant describes the product at issue as "a portable handheld nasal irrigation and aspiration device configured to aspirate and irrigate the nasal cavity. The nasal irrigation and aspiration device has reservoirs for the irrigant and aspirant."
The Commerce Department published notices in the Federal Register Feb. 24 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 on Feb. 24 published its quarterly list of (i) completed antidumping and countervailing duty scope rulings and (ii) anti-circumvention determinations. The following list covers completed scope rulings for the period Oct. 1, 2024, through Dec. 31, 2024:
The Commerce Department finalized its preliminary finding (see 2501300068) that Trapa Forest Products Ltd. is the successor-in-interest to Trans-Pacific Trading Ltd. for the purposes of countervailing duties on softwood lumber products from Canada (C-122-858). Commerce said it continues to find that Trans-Pacific changed its name to Trapa but otherwise continues to operate as the same business entity as before, in the final results of a changed circumstances review released Feb. 24. Trapa will inherit the CVD rate assigned to Trans-Pacific Trading, which was 6.74% (the review average rate) in the final results of a CVD administrative review for calendar year 2021, published in August 2024 (see 2408160017). Commerce has recognized the name change and allowed Trapa to inherit Trans-Pacific's rate for the purposes of the antidumping duties on subject merchandise (see 2409200061).
The Commerce Department has released the final results of a countervailing duty administrative review of stainless steel flanges from India (C-533-878). Rates set in this review will be used to set importer assessments for subject merchandise from Pradeep Metals entered during the period Jan. 1, 2022, through Dec. 31, 2022.
Fourteen models of passenger vehicle and light truck wheels imported by Keystone Automotive Industries aren’t subject to antidumping and countervailing duty orders on steel wheels 12 to 16.5 inches in diameter from China (A-570-090/C-570-091), the Commerce Department announced in a Feb. 24 scope ruling. Keystone’s wheels can’t be used for trailers, it explained.
The Commerce Department is suspending liquidation and setting new antidumping duty cash deposit requirements on all imports of monosodium glutamate from Malaysia made from Chinese-origin glutamic acid, after preliminarily finding that the imports are circumventing AD on MSG from China (A-570-992), the agency said.
The FDA has pushed back the effective date of a final rule on food labeling in response to President Donald Trump's Jan. 20 executive order calling for a regulatory freeze.
The Foreign-Trade Zones Board issued the following notices on Feb. 24: