The Court of International Trade sustained the International Trade Administration’s second redo of the final results from the 2004-05 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on heavy forged hand tools, finished or unfinished, with or without handles, from China (A-570-803). CIT had previously said the Adverse Facts Available (AFA) rates of (a) 139.31% applied to Shandong Huarong Machinery Co.’s sales of bars/wedges; and (b) 98.77% applied to Tianjin Machinery Import & Export Co.’s sales of picks/mattocks, were insufficiently corroborated. This time, CIT sustained the ITA’s recalculation of the AFA rates at (a) 47.88%, and (b) 32.15%, respectively, as sufficiently corroborated.
The Court of International Trade remanded, in part, the final results of the 2008-09 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on polyethylene retail carrier bags from Thailand (A-549-821) in order for the International Trade Administration to reconsider its use of zeroing (on voluntary remand), as well as for the ITA to reconsider its cost adjustment for an input sourced from an affiliated supplier. CIT affirmed the ITA’s final results in all other respects.
The nearly complete skeleton of a dinosaur was forfeited to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE said. The skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Bataar was looted from the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, ICE said, and this forfeiture is the first step to the hopeful repatriation of the fossil to Mongolia. According to ICE, the skeleton was imported into the U.S. from the United Kingdom, and the customs importation documents contained several misstatements.
A counterfeit trafficking ring was dismantled, resulting in the seizure of more than 32,000 bogus cell phones and other electronics, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement said. Qiang Chen, 44, and Ye Zhang, 43, both of Syosset, N.Y, and conducting business as AMAX International Group Inc., and Robert Eisenberg, 28, of Manhattan conducting business as Cellular Wholesale USA Inc., were arrested in connection with the scheme, said ICE, which involved the bulk shipment of cell phones from China and subsequent repackaging and sale of the counterfeit phones online or through legitimate cell phone wholesalers who were likely unaware they were receiving counterfeit goods.
The Court of International Trade affirmed the International Trade Administration’s reliance on information submitted by a Chinese informant demonstrating that Chinese paper company Max Fortune submitted false information in the 2008-09 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on tissue paper products from China (A-570-894). As a result of Max Fortune’s alleged deception, the ITA imposed an adverse facts available rate of 112.64% in the proceeding, which CIT also affirmed.
The Court of International trade remanded the final results of another administrative review to the International Trade Administration for zeroing, despite the ITA’s argument that plaintiff Sucocitrico Cutrale didn’t exhaust its administrative remedies by raising the argument in its case briefs during the review.
A federal jury Thursday convicted a Puerto Rican man for trafficking in counterfeit pharmaceuticals, said Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. Luis Angel Garcia Torres, 41, of Patillas, Puerto Rico, used the Internet to import from China and distribute counterfeit Viagra and Cialis and offered to sell the Viagra and Cialis tablets, ICE said. The retail cost at the time for Viagra and Cialis ranged from $15 to about $20 per pill, said ICE, but Garcia Torres was selling them for $2 each after purchasing the tablets for $0.45 each. Garcia Torres faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison and a $2 million fine, ICE said.
A seventh executive of Control Components Inc. pleaded guilty to bribery charges involving the sale of valves to Greece, the Justice Department said. It said David Edmonds, the former vice president-worldwide customer service at California-based CCI, pleaded guilty to violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) before U.S. District Judge James Selna in Santa Ana, Calif., to a one-count superseding information charging him with making a corrupt payment to a foreign government official in Greece. According to court documents, CCI designed and manufactured service control valves for use in the nuclear, oil and gas, and power generation industries worldwide. At sentencing, Edmonds, 59, faces up to 15 months in prison. Sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 19, 2012.
The Court of International Trade said it will hear a challenge of the “acquisition clause” of the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Act of 2000 (CDSOA, commonly known as the Byrd Amendment), which says a company must not have been acquired by a company or business that is related to a company that opposed the investigation in order to qualify for CDSOA disbursement.
American Seafoods Co. and Pacific Longline Co., both of Seattle, agreed to phase out the use of ozone depleting refrigerants, implement a comprehensive leak detection and repair program aboard a number of their vessels and pay a penalty to resolve federal Clean Air Act violations, including the illegal import of ozone-depleting refrigerants, the Environmental Protection Agency said. The consent decree was lodged at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle. The EPA said that, between 2006 and 2009, American Seafoods and Pacific Longline imported and used 70,000 kg of R-22 refrigerant without holding valid allowances.