Year: 2025
Apr 16th, 2025
Trade Update for Week of April 16, 2025
UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE Slip Op. 25-41 Before the Court in Under the Weather, LLC v. United States, Court No. 21-00211, Slip Op. 25-41 (April 15, 2025) was Plaintiff’s motion to amend its complaint to add an amended Count Two, which asserts a claim for relief under Section…
Apr 10th, 2025
Trade Update For Week of April 9, 2025
UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE Slip Op. 25-33 Before the Court in Mosaic Co. v. United States, Court No. 23-00246, Slip Op. 25-34 (April 1, 2025) was a consolidated action by plaintiff and defendant-intervenor contesting a final determination of the International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce. Plaintiff, The…
Apr 2nd, 2025
Trade Update for Week of April 2, 2025
UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE Slip Op. 25-31 Before the Court in United States v. Koehler Oberkirch GmbH, Court No. 24-00014, Slip Op. 25-31 (March 27, 2025) was the Government’s motion to collect over a quarter-billion dollars in unpaid antidumping duties and interest from Defendant Koehler Oberkirch GmbH and…
Mar 27th, 2025
Trade Update for Week of March 26, 2025
UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE Slip Op. 25-30 Before the Court in Eteros Technologies USA, Inc. v. United States, Court No. 25-00036, Slip Op. 25-30 (March 26, 2025) was a motion to expedite the briefing schedule of an action for declaratory relief requested by plaintiff, and a cross-motion…
Mar 19th, 2025
Trade Update for Week of March 19, 2025
UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE Slip Op. 25-26 Before the Court in Southwest Airlines Co., v. United States, Court No. 22-00141, Slip Op. 25-26 (March 18, 2025) were cross motions for summary judgment in connection to the fate of a customs passenger processing fee paid by customers who…
Mar 19th, 2025
Trade Update for March 12, 2025
UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE Slip Op. 25-24 Before the Court in Catfish Farmers of America v. United States, Court No. 20-00105, Slip Op. 25-24 (March 10, 2025) was a challenge to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s use of India rather than Indonesia as the primary surrogate country…
Feb 27th, 2025
Trade Update for Week of February 26, 2025
UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE Slip Op. 25-20 Before the Court in Precision Components, Inc., v. United States, Court No.23-00218 Slip Op. 25-20 (February 25, 2025) was a challenge to the final scope ruling of the United States Department of Commerce regarding certain low-carbon steel blanks imported from the…
Feb 20th, 2025
Trade Update for Week of February 20, 2025
UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE Slip Op. 25-16 Before the Court in Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo & Wood Indus. Co. v. United States, Court No. 22-00190, Slip Op. 25-16 (February 18, 2018) was a court’s review of the remand determination of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s surrogate value data for…
Feb 17th, 2025
Sweeping Section 232 Tariffs Imposed on Steel and Aluminum Derivatives: Scope Includes Manufactured Goods Across Multiple Industries (Beginning as early as March 12, 2025)
On February 10, 2025, President Trump issued two proclamations—Adjusting Imports of Aluminum into the United States and Adjusting Imports of Steel into the United States—expanding Section 232 tariffs. The proclamations eliminated all country exemptions, ended product-specific exclusions, and revoked General Approved Exclusions (GAEs). Aluminum tariffs increased from 10% to 25%,…
Feb 13th, 2025
Trade Update For February 13, 2025
UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE Slip Op. 25-13 Before the Court in Honeywell International, Inc., v. United States, Court No. 17-00256, Slip-Op 25-13 (January 30, 2025) were cross-motions for summary judgments regarding U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s denial of three protests challenging the agency’s liquidation of Honeywell’s radial,…
Feb 3rd, 2025
Trump Administration Imposes Tariffs on Goods from Canada, Mexico, China; Canada and Mexico Retaliate
On February 2, 2025, President Trump signed three Executive Orders imposing new tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico and China. Canada quickly retaliated by imposing tariffs on American goods. Mexico has announced that it will impose retaliatory measures, both in the form of tariffs and nontariff barriers. China has indicated…
Jan 23rd, 2025
Trade Update for Week of January 22, 2025
UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE Slip Op. 25-06 Before the Court in Hyundai Steel Co. v. United States and Dongkuk Steel Mill Co. v. United States, (January 16, 2025) was the Department of Commerce’s redetermination in two countervailing duty cases involving South Korea’s greenhouse gas regulatory system, which the…
Jan 8th, 2025
Trade Update for Week of January 8, 2025
UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE Slip Op. 25-01 Before the Court in Tube Forgings of Am., Inc. v. United States, Court No. 23-00231, Slip Op. 25-01 (January 2, 2025) was an issue of first impression regarding the jurisdiction of the Court of International Trade (“CIT”) addressing the question of…
Jan 6th, 2025
THE TARIFF “STRESS TEST” – TO COURT OR NOT TO COURT?
In recent years, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has aggressively pursued the collection of Section 301 “retaliatory tariffs” on imports deemed to be “Products of China.” Imposed by the Trump Administration in 2018 and 2019 under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, these tariffs affect over $400…