The International Trade Commission published notices in the Jan. 16 Federal Register on the following antidumping duty and countervailing duty injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
Steel industry executives told a bipartisan panel of House members that Canada and Mexico shouldn't be allowed an exemption from Section 232 tariffs, and a representative of Nucor, the largest U.S. steel manufacturer, asked the members to "vocally oppose any efforts to weaken these measures, whether through carve-outs for countries like Canada and Mexico or through gamesmanship like under-reporting the value of steel and steel products."
The International Trade Commission seeks comments by Jan. 26 on a Section 337 complaint alleging that imports of certain disposable and other closed-system electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) devices and components thereof infringe patents held by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, its subsidiaries and RAI Services Company, it said in a notice to be published Jan. 16 in the Federal Register. According to the complaint, the complainants are seeking a general and a limited exclusion order and cease and desist orders against Chinese manufacturers of Elf Bar and Geek Bar as well as their U.S. distributors to bar from entry disposable and other closed-system ENDS devices that violate its patents. The complainants said that they want to “stop the rampant flooding of the U.S. market with illicit electronic nicotine delivery systems (‘ENDS’ or ‘vapes’) that are causing substantial injury to Reynolds’ domestic industry.”
The International Trade Commission began a Section 337 investigation on allegations that Ouraring is importing and selling smart rings that infringe patents held by Samsung (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1478), it said in a notice to be published in the Federal Register Jan. 16.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, told International Trade Today that the fact that the House of Representatives already passed two spending packages complicates his desire to attach trade preferences to a spending bill, but that it is not necessarily an insurmountable hurdle. Both bills, which fund a number of departments through Sept. 30, must pass both chambers before Jan. 30. The Senate voted on the first of the two packages -- which funds Commerce Department, the International Trade Commission, and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative -- a few hours after Crapo spoke. That leaves only one funding bill that could serve as a vehicle for the trade bills.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Jan. 14 Federal Register on the following antidumping duty and countervailing duty 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. 22 on a Section 337 complaint alleging that imports of power converters infringe patents held by Vicor Corporation, it said in a notice to be published Jan. 14 in the Federal Register. According to the complaint, Vicor is seeking a limited exclusion order and cease and desist orders against 10 companies from the U.S., Taiwan and China to bar from entry "certain power converters, circuit board assemblies, and computing systems containing the same" that violate its patents. Vicor said that the respondents are infringing its "patented non-isolated Sine Amplitude Converter (“SAC”) topology for power converters, including how it is employed within non-isolated intermediate bus architecture power distribution systems."
The International Trade Commission seeks public comments as it considers whether to begin a review to determine if antidumping and countervailing duties on coated paper suitable for high quality print graphics using sheet-fed presses from Indonesia should remain in place.
The International Trade Commission published notices in the Jan. 12 Federal Register on the following antidumping duty and countervailing duty 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 published notices in the Jan. 9 Federal Register on the following antidumping and countervailing duty injury, Section 337 patent or other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):