Lawyers from BakerHostetler that represent the Conseil de l’industrie forestière du Québec and the Ontario Forest Industries Association are using a Commerce Department comment process for softwood lumber subsidies to argue once again that the countervailing duty case against Canadian lumber exports contradicts the USMCA Environment Chapter commitments and Biden administration environment and social justice priorities.

The Commerce Department on Nov. 28 issued a proposed rule that would modify its regulations on administrative protective orders and service of documents in antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings. The proposal would make permanent certain changes put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the acceptance of service electronically and via Commerce’s ACCESS database in some circumstances. “Commerce also proposes additional clarifications and corrections to other procedural aspects of its AD/CVD regulations, including updates to the scope, circumvention, and covered merchandise referral regulations,” it said. The proposed rule also deletes regulations that have been invalidated by decisions of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Comments are due Dec. 28.

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Nov. 25 on AD/CVD proceedings:

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Nov. 23 on AD/CVD proceedings:

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Nov. 22 on AD/CVD proceedings:

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Nov. 21 on AD/CVD proceedings:

The International Trade Commission in a Nov. 18 Federal Register notice published a summary of administrative protective order (APO) breach investigations related to proceedings under Title VII and Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 in 2022. The ITC said it wants the summary "to inform representatives of parties to Commission proceedings of the specific types of APO breaches before the Commission and the corresponding types of actions that the Commission has taken." The notice details 10 APO breach investigations carried out by the commission in which the agency determined that a certain party had violated an APO.

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Nov. 18 on AD/CVD proceedings:

Solar developers, installers, manufacturers, and solar array accessory providers are asking Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to reject claims that solar panels made in Southeast Asia are really of Chinese origin, and therefore, are circumventing antidumping and countervailing duties on Chinese solar panel exports.

The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Nov. 17 on AD/CVD proceedings: