Mar 18th, 2024

Aluminum Extrusions: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once.

The imposition of antidumping and countervailing duty orders on a given class or kind of merchandise often causes producers of subject goods in the targeted countries to take action to avoid liability under the orders. This may involve changing the nature of the goods produced to remove them from the…

Feb 28th, 2024

Trade Updates for Week of February 28, 2024

UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE Fraserview Remanufacturing Inc. v. United States, Slip Op. 24-8 In Fraserview Remanufacturing Inc. v. United States, Slip Op 24-8 (January 25, 2024) a Canadian exporter of softwood lumber had some eighty (80) entries suspended while the Commerce Department conducted its first administrative review of the…

Feb 5th, 2024

CIT Won’t Consider “Non-Enumerated” Tariff Provisions in Determining “Substitutability” for Drawback Purposes

The United States Court of International Trade recently determined that it will not consider language appearing at “non-enumerated” provsions of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) when determining whether imported and exported goods are “substitutable” for duty drawback purposes. In Spirit Aerosystems LLC v. United States, Slip Op. 24-10 (January 30,…

Feb 5th, 2024

Deemed Liquidation? Not So Fast!

A comedy of errors involving the handling of softwood lumber entries ended with Customs in tears, courtesy of an interesting new Court of International Trade decision. In Fraserview Remanufacturing Inc. v. United States, Slip Op 24-8 (January 25, 2024), a Canadian exporter of softwood lumber had some eighty (80) entries…

Jan 10th, 2024

Trade Updates for Week of January 10, 2024

UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE Before the Court in CVB, Inc. v. United States and Brooklyn Bedding, LLC., et al., Court No. 21-288, Slip Op. 24-02 (January 8, 2024) was a motion to retract the Court’s public slip opinion and accord confidential treatment to alleged business proprietary information contained…