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Nov 4th, 2020
Trade Updates for Week of November 4, 2020
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 20-151 Before the Court in Uttam Galva Steels Ltd. v. United States, et. al., Court No. 19-00044, Slip Op. 20-151 (October 29, 2020) were Commerce’s remand determinations, regarding a challenge to an administrative review of the countervailing duty order on certain corrosion-resistant…
Feb 4th, 2021
Trade Updates for Week of February 3, 2021
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 21-08 Before the Court in PrimeSource Bldg. Prods., Inc. v. United States, Slip Op. 21-08, Court No. 20-32 (January 27, 2021) was the Governments motion to dismiss a case filed by a U.S. importer of steel nails, challenging Presidential Proclamation 9980, which…
Apr 1st, 2021
Trade Updates for Week of March 31, 2021
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 21-31 Before the Court in Celik Halat ve Tel Sanayi A.S. v. United States, et. al. Court No. 20-03843, Slip Op. 21-31 (March 24, 2021) was Defendant’s motion to dismiss “Plaintiff’s complaint challenging Commerce’s preliminary determination in the antidumping duty investigation into…
Apr 8th, 2021
Trade Updates for Week of April 7, 2021
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 21-36 Before the Court in PrimeSource Bldg. Prods., Inc. v. United States, Court No. 20-00032, Slip Op. 21-36 (April 5, 2021) was a “Joint Status Report” that both parties submitted in response to the Court’s order in PrimeSource Bldg. Prods., Inc. v….
Apr 29th, 2021
Trade Updates for Week of April 28, 2021
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 21-46 Before the Court in Acquisition 362, LLC v. United States, Court No. 20-03762, Slip Op. 21-46 (April 21, 2021) was the Government’s motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction regarding Plaintiff’s case contesting the denial of its protests over…
Apr 21st, 2021
Trade Updates for Week of April 21, 2021
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 21-42 Before the Court in Sao Ta Foods Joint Stock Co. v. United States, Consol. Court No. 18-00205, Slip Op. 21-42 (April 14, 2021) was Commerce’s second remand redetermination in the twelfth administrative review of the antidumping duty order covering certain frozen…
May 17th, 2021
Trade Updates for Week of May 12, 2021
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 21-58 Before the Court in Calgon Carbon Corp., et. al., v. United States, et. al., Court No. 18-00232, Slip Op. 21-58 (May 11, 2021) was Commerce’s second remand redetermination in the tenth administrative review (“AR10”) of the antidumping duty order on certain…
May 20th, 2021
Trade Updates for Week of May 19, 2020
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 21-59 Before the Court in Coal. of Am. Flange Producers v. United States, Court No. 18-00225, Slip Op. 21-59 (May 13, 2021) was Commerce’s Remand Results, which the Court ordered in Coalition of American Flange Producers v. United States, 44 CIT…
May 27th, 2021
Trade Updates for Week of May 26, 2021
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 21-65 Before the Court in Icdas Celik Enerji Tersane Ve Ulasim Sanayi, A.S., et. al., v. United States, et. al., Consol. Court No. 18-00143, Slip Op. 21-65 (May 20, 2021) was Defendant-Intervenor’s challenge against Commerce’s Second Remand Results in an antidumping…
Jun 11th, 2021
Trade Updates for Week of June 9, 2021
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 21-67 Before the Court in Fabuwood Cabinetry Corp., et. al., v. United States, et. al., Consol. Court No. 18-00208, Slip Op. 21-67 (May 27, 2021) was a scope ruling regarding antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders on certain hardwood plywood products from…
Jun 21st, 2021
Trade Updates for Week of June 16, 2021
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 21-73 Before the Court in ARP Mats., Inc. v. United States, Court No. 20-00144, and Harrison Steel Castings Co. v. United States, Court No. 20-00147, Slip Op. 21-31 (June 11, 2021) were two cases, in which two importers had imported goods which…
Jul 8th, 2021
Trade Updates for Week of July 7, 2021
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 21-81 Before the Court in In Re Section 301 Cases, Court No. 21-00025, Slip Op. 21-81 (July 6, 2021) were Plaintiff’s motions for leave to file a reply and for a preliminary injunction pursuant to U.S. CIT Rule 65(a) suspending liquidation of…
Jul 22nd, 2021
Trade Updates for Week of July 21, 2021
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 21-89 Before the Court in Jaramillo Spices Corp. v. United States, Court No. 20-00148, Slip Op. 21-89 (July 19, 2021) was Plaintiff Jaramillo’s action to contest Custom’s decision, which assessed Jaramillo liquidated damages of $50,000 for failure to redeliver to CBP’s custody…
Jul 29th, 2021
Trade Updates for Week of July 28, 2021
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 21-92 Before the Court in Canadian Solar Int’l Ltd., et. al., v. United States, et. al., Consol. Court No. 17-00173, Slip Op. 21-92 (July 28, 2021) was Commerce’s third remand redetermination, in the third administrative review the antidumping duty order covering crystalline…
Aug 11th, 2021
Trade Updates for Week of August 11, 2021
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 21-94 Before the Court in PrimeSource Bldg. Prods., Inc. v. United States, Court No. 20-00032, Slip Op. 21-94 (August 2, 2021) was the government’s motion for partial stay pending their appeal of the judgment entered in PrimeSource Bldg. Prods., Inc. v. United…
Aug 25th, 2021
Trade Updates for Week of August 25, 2021
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 21-105 Before the Court in Echjay Forgings Private Limited v. United States, et. al., Court No. 18-00230, Slip Op. 21-105 (August 20, 2021) was Commerce’s Remand Results, which the Court ordered in Echjay I so that Commerce could further explain or reconsider…
Sep 1st, 2021
Trade Updates for Week of September 1, 2021
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit 2020-1734 Before United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in National Association of Manufacturers v. Department of the Treasury, No. 2020-1734 (August 23, 2021), was an appeal by the Government from a judgment by the United States Court of…
Sep 9th, 2021
Trade Updates for Week of September 8, 2021
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 21-114 Before the Court in Canadian Solar Inc., et. al., v. United States, Consol. Court No. 19-00178, Slip Op. 21-114 (September 3, 2021) was a challenge to Commerce’s final determination in the fifth administrative review of the countervailing duty order on crystalline…
Sep 16th, 2021
Trade Updates for Week of September 15, 2021
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 21-116 Before the Court in Columbia Aluminum Prods., LLC, v. United States, et. al., Consol. Court No. 19-00013, Slip Op. 21-116 (September 14, 2021) was Plaintiff Columbia’s action to contest a decision by Commerce that its imported products, “door thresholds” containing aluminum…
Sep 29th, 2021
Trade Updates for Week of September 29, 2021
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 21-130 Before the Court in M S International, Inc., et. al., v. United States, et. al., Consol. Court No. 19-00140, Slip Op. 21-130 (September 24, 2021) was Plaintiff’s motion for judgment on the agency record in a challenge to Commerce’s final determination…
Oct 14th, 2021
Trade Updates for Week of October 13, 2021
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 21-136 Before the Court in Root Sciences, LLC, v. United States, Court No. 21-00123, Slip Op. 21-136 (October 4, 2021) was Plaintiff Root Science’s challenge against the “deemed denial of its protest to exclusion of merchandise for import” regarding goods seized by…
Oct 21st, 2021
Trade Updates for Week of October 20, 2021
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 20-044 Before the Court in Oman Fasteners, LLC. et. al., v. United States, was the Government’s motion for a stay pending appeal. The Trade Court had previously found that Presidential Proclamation 9980 which imposed 25% tariffs on derivative steel products, under authority…
Oct 27th, 2021
Trade Updates for Week of October 27, 2021
United States Court of International Trade Slip On. 21-149 Before the Court in Carbon Activated Tianjin Co., Ltd., et. al., v. United States, et. al., Court No. 20-00007, Slip Op. 21-149 (October 22, 2021) was Plaintiffs challenge against Commerce’s final results in the eleventh administrative review of the antidumping duty…
Nov 17th, 2021
Trade Updates for Week of November 17, 2021
United States Court of International Trade Slip. Op. 21-154 Before the court in Solar Energy Industries Association, et. al., v. United States, et. al., Court No. 20-03941, Slip. Op. 21-154 (November 16, 2021) was Plaintiffs’ challenge against “Presidential Proclamation 10101, which withdrew the exclusion of bifacial solar panels from Section…
Dec 1st, 2021
Trade Updates for Week of December 1, 2021
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 21-159 Before the Court in Pasta Zara S.p.A., et. al., v. United States, et. al., Consol. Court No. 20-00023, Slip Op. 21-159 (November 30, 2021) was consolidated Plaintiffs’ challenge against the final results of Commerce’s twenty-second administrative review of the antidumping duty…
Dec 9th, 2021
Trade Updates for Week of December 8, 2021
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 21-163 Before the Court in China Custom Mfg., Inc., et. al., v. United States, et. al., Court No. 20-00121, Slip Op. 21-163 (December 6, 2021) was Plaintiffs’ challenge against Commerce’s scope determination for antidumping and countervailing duty orders on aluminum extrusions from…
Dec 23rd, 2021
Trade Updates for Week of December 22, 2021
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 21-171 Before the Court in Deacero S.A.P.I. de C.V., et. al., v. United States, et. al., Court No. 20-03924, Slip Op. 21-171 (December 22, 2021) was Deacero’s motion for judgment on the agency record pursuant to USCIT Rule 56.2, in an…
Dec 29th, 2021
Trade Updates for Week of December 29, 2021
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 21-174 Before the Court in Borusan Mannesmann Boru Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S., et. al., v. United States, et. al., Consol. Court No. 19-00056, Slip Op. 21-174 (December 28, 2021) was Plaintiffs’ challenge against Commerce’s remand determinations and resulting antidumping duty orders regarding…
Jan 13th, 2022
Trade Updates for Week of January 12, 2022
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 22-1 Before the Court in Husteel Co. Ltd., et. al., v. United States, et. al., Consol. Court No. 19-00112, Slip Op. 22-1 (January 3, 2022) was Plaintiffs’ challenge against Commerce’s second remand redetermination in the 2016-2017 administrative review of the antidumping duty…
Mar 10th, 2022
Trade Updates for Week of March 10, 2022
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 22-12 Before the Court in Celik Halat ve Tel Sanayi A.S. v. United States, et. al., Court No. 21-00045, Slip Op. 22-12 (February 15, 2022) was Plaintiff’s challenge to a final determination that Commerce issued in an antidumping duty investigation of certain…
Mar 18th, 2022
Trade Updates for Week of March 16, 2022
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 22-19 Before the Court in Norca Industrial Co. LLC, et. al., v. United States, Court No. 21-00192, Slip Op. 22-19 (March 11, 2022) were consolidated plaintiff’s motion for judgment on the agency record, and the Government’s motion for a voluntary remand,…
Apr 7th, 2022
Trade Updates for Week of April 6, 2022
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 22-30 In United States v. Katana Racing, Inc., Slip Op 22-30 (March 28, 2022), an importer of tires, unwilling to assume liability for “safeguard” tariffs the administration had imposed on Chinese tires between 2009 and 2012, agreed to purchase Chinese tires on…
May 31st, 2022
Trade Updates for Week of May 25, 2022
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 22-52 Before the Court in GreenFirst Forest Products Inc., et. al. v. United States, Court No. 22-00097, Slip Op. 22-52 (May 20, 2022) was the motion of the Committee Overseeing Action for Lumber International Trade Investigation or Negotiations’ (“the Coalition”) motion to…
Jun 16th, 2022
Trade Updates for Week of June 15, 2022
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 22-63 Before the Court in Gujarat Flurochemicals Limited v. United States, et. al., Court No. 22-120, Slip Op. 22-63 (June 9, 2022) was plaintiff’s motion for a preliminary injunction to lower the rate of cash deposits and prohibit liquidation of entries during…
Jun 22nd, 2022
Trade Updates for Week of June 22, 2022
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 22-63 Before the Court in Shanghai Tainai Bearing Co. Ltd., et. al. v. United States. et. al., Court No. 22-38, Slip Op. 22-63 (June 17, 2022) was plaintiff’s motion for a preliminary injunction or writ of mandamus to enjoin Commerce and U.S….
Jun 29th, 2022
Trade Updates for Week of June 29,2022
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 22-75 Before the Court in All One God Faith, Inc., et. al. v. United States, et. al., Court No. 22-164, Slip Op. 22-75 (June 24, 2020) was the motion of plaintiff for leave to file an amended complaint or to supplement its…
Jul 8th, 2022
Trade Updates for Week of July 6, 2022
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 22-76 Before the Court in Former Employees of AT&T Services, Inc., through Communications Workers of America Local 4123 v. U.S. Secretary of Labor, Court No. 20-00075, Slip Op. 22-76 (June 30, 2022) were the parties’ motions for judgment based on the agency…
Jul 13th, 2022
Trade Updates for Week of July 13, 2022
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 22-77 Before the Court in Productos Laminados de Monterrey S.A. de C.V. v. United States and Nucor Tubular Products Inc., Atlas Tube, A Division of Zekelman Industries, and Searing Industries, Court No. 20-166, Slip Op. 22-77 (July 6, 2022) was the motion…
Jul 21st, 2022
Trade Updates for Week of July 20, 2022
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 22-84 Before the Court in Pro-Team Coil Nail Enterprise, Inc., et. al., v. United States, et. al., Court No. 18-00027, Slip Op. 22-84 (July 15, 2022) was the motion for judgment on Commerce’s Third Remand Results. Plaintiffs claim that the antidumping duty…
Sep 1st, 2022
Trade Updates for Week of September 1, 2022
On October 5, 2021, California adopted legislation (A.B. 1200) to regulate perfluorinated alkyl substance (“PFAS”) in food contact materials and articles derived from plant fibers as well as requiring information for cookware. The statute requires that manufacturers of “cookware” sold in the state list the presence of chemicals on the…
Sep 9th, 2022
Trade Updates for Week of September 8, 2022
United States Court of International Trade Case No. 21-2176 Before the Court in ARP Materials, Inc., v. United States, Case No. 21-2176 (September 6, 2022) was an appeal from the United States Court of International Trade’s (“CIT”) decision to dismiss ARP Materials, Inc. (“ARP”) and Harrision Steel Casting Co. (“Harrision”);…
Sep 22nd, 2022
Trade updates for Week of September 21, 2022
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 22-111 Before the Court in Eteros Technologies USA, Inc. v. United States, Court No. 21-00287, Slip Op. 22-111 (September 21, 2022) were cross motions for judgment on the pleadings by the parties concerning U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (“CBP”) denial of Plaintiff’s…
Oct 5th, 2022
Trade Updates for Week of October 5, 2022
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 22-15 Before the Court in RKW Klerks, Inc., v. United States, Slip Op. 22-115 (October 04, 2022) were cross motions for summary judgment on the classification of net wraps imported for wrapping round bales of harvested crops and keeping these compressed in…
Oct 19th, 2022
Trade Updates for Week of October 19, 2022
United States Court of International Trade Slip Op. 22-116 Before the Court in Nucor Corp. v. United States, Court No. 21-00182, Slip Op. 22-116 (October, 05, 2022) was plaintiff Nucor’s challenge to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s final results in the 2018 administrative review of the countervailing duty order on…
Nov 9th, 2022
Trade Updates for Week of November 9, 2022
U.S. Court of International Trade Slip Op. 22-121 Before the Court in Ajmal Steel Tubes & Pipes Industries LLC, v. United States, and Wheatland Tube Company, Court No. 21-00587, Slip Op. 22-121 (October 28, 2022) were the parties’ motions for judgment based on the agency record regarding antidumping order for…
Nov 16th, 2022
Trade Updates for Week of November 16, 2022
US Court of International Trade Slip Op. 22-123 Before the Court in Ellwood City Forge Company, Ellwood National Steel Company, Ellwood Quality Steels Company, and A. Finkl & Sons v. United States and Metalcam S.P.A., Court No. 21-00073, Slip Op. 22-123 (November 8, 2022) was the Plaintiff’s Motion for reconsideration…
Dec 1st, 2022
Trade Updates for Week of November 30, 2022
US Court of International Trade Slip Op. 22-130 Before the Court in Sea Shepard New Zealand, et. al. v. United States, et. al., Court No. 20-112, Slip Op. 22-130 (November 28, 2022) was plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction to block importation of certain seafood from New Zealand and the…
Dec 12th, 2022
Trade Updates for Week of December 7, 2022
UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE Slip Op. 22-133 Before the Court in Goodluck India Limited v. United States, et. al., Court No. 22-24, Slip Op. 22-133 (December 1, 2022) was the Government’s partial motion to dismiss the plaintiff’s complaint alleging jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1581(c) and alternatively 1581(i)….
Dec 14th, 2022
Trade Updates for Week of December 14, 2022
UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE Slip Op. 22-140 Before the Court in MS Solar Investments, LLC v. United States, et.al., Court No. 21-303, Slip Op. 22-140 (December 12, 2022) was the Government’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s claims for lack of jurisdiction. Plaintiff filed the case to challenging the Department…
Dec 21st, 2022
Trade Updates for Week of December 21, 2022
UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE Slip Op. 22-142 Before the Court in Virtus Nutrition LLC v. United States, Court No. 21-165, Slip Op. 22-142 was plaintiff’s motion to voluntarily dismiss its case challenging U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (“CBP”) denial of plaintiff’s protest regarding the exclusion from entry into…
Jan 11th, 2023
Trade Updates for Week of January 11, 2023
UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE Slip Op. 23-01 Before the Court in Sea Shepherd New Zealand, et. al. v. United States, et. al., was a motion by the Government of New Zealand to modify a preliminary injunction previously issued by the Court in the litigation. The case involves “the…
Jan 25th, 2023
Trade Updates for Week of Jan 25, 2023
UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE Slip Op. 23-07 Before the Court in NLMK Pennsylvania, LLC v. United States, Court No. 21-507, Slip Op. 23-7 (January 23, 2023) was plaintiff’s motion for judgment on the agency record concerning the Department of Commerce’s denial of plaintiff’s requests for certain steel slabs…
Feb 1st, 2023
Trade Updates for Week of February 1, 2023
UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE Slip Op. 23-10 Before the Court in J.D. Irving, Limited v. United States, et. al., Court No. 21-651, Slip Op. 23-10 (January 25, 2023) was the Government’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Plaintiff filed the case to challenge…
Feb 8th, 2023
Trade Updates for Week of February 8, 2023
UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE Slip Op. 23-12 Before the Court in Columbia Aluminum Prods., LLC v. United States, Court No.19-185, Slip Op. 23-12 (February 6, 2022) was the motion of defendant-intervenor, Endura Products, Inc. (“Endura”), to stay litigation before the Court pending a conclusive decision in an appeal…
Feb 15th, 2023
Trade Updates for Week of February 15, 2023
UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE Slip Op. 23-15 Before the Court in Hyundai Steel Co. v. United States, Court No. 21-00536, Slip Op. 23-15 (February 10, 2023) was Plaintiff’s motion for judgment challenging the U.S. Department of Commerce’s final results in the 2018 administrative review of the countervailing duty…
Mar 3rd, 2023
Trade Updates for Week of February 22, 2023
UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE Slip Op. 23-20 Before the Court in SGS Sports, Inc. v. United States, Court No. 18-00128, Slip Op. 23-20 (February 17, 2023) was defendant’s motion for a new trial rehearing or rehearing for Slip Op. 22-26. Defendant argued that the Court had failed to…
Mar 9th, 2023
Trade Updates for Week of March 8, 2023
UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE Slip Op. 23-28 Before the Court in Jilin Bright Future Chems. Co. v. United States, Court No. 22-00336, Slip Op. 23-28 (March 3, 2023) plaintiff-intervenors Ningxia Guanghua Cherishmet Activated Carbon Co., Ltd. and Datong Municipal Yunguang Activated Carbon Co., Ltd.’s partial consent motion for…
Mar 30th, 2023
Trade Updates for Week of March 29, 2023
UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE Slip Op 23-42 Before the Court in Kent International, Inc. v. United States, Court No. 15-001135, Slip Op. 23-42 (March, 24, 2023) was Plaintiff’s motion for judgement challenging U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s denial of protests regarding the classification of Kent’s “WeeRide” child safety…
Mar 23rd, 2023
Trade Updates for Week of March 22, 2023
UNITED STATES COURT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE Slip Op. 23-36 Before the Court in BRAL Corporation v. United States, Court No. 20-00154, Slip Op. 23-36 (March, 20, 2023) were cross motions for summary judgement in an action contesting U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (“CBP”) denial of two protests relating to twelve…
Feb 4th, 2015
Trade Court Updates for Week of February 4, 2015
U.S. Court of International Trade Final Results Affirmed in Part and Remanded in Part; Defendants Collaterally Estopped from Defending Fifteen Day Liquidation Rule In NTN Bearing Corporation of America, et al., v. United States and the Timken Company (Defendant-intervenor), Court No. 10-286, Slip Op. 15-12 (February 3, 2015), plaintiffs (collectively, “NTN”) contested…
Jul 15th, 2015
Trade Courts Update for Week of July 15, 2015
United States Court of International Trade Cross Motion for Summary Judgment Granted in Favor of Defendant In Tyco Fire Products L.P. (“Tyco”) v. United States, Court No. 08-190, Slip Op. 15-74 (July 10, 2014), Tyco argued that its products, filled glass bulbs, should be classified under Chapter 84 of…
Mar 5th, 2015
Trade Court Updates for Week of March 5, 2015
United States Court of International Trade The Court Sustained Commerce’s Final Remand Results in Polyethylene Terephthalate Film Review In DuPont Teijin Films China Limited et al. v. United States et al., Court No. 13-229, Slip Op. 15-19 (February 27, 2015), the Court of International Trade sustained Commerce’s remand results. This…
Jan 9th, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of January 4, 2017
United States Court of International Trade Remanding in Part Final CVD and AD Determination In Changzhou Trina Solar Energy Co., Ltd. et al. v. United States, Court No. 15-68, Slip Op. 16-121 (December 30, 2016), the Court of International Trade (“Court”) remanded in part the U.S. Department of Commerce’s…
Mar 16th, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of March 15, 2017
United States Court of International Trade Motion to Dismiss Granted Before the Court in American Furniture Manufacturers Committee for Legal Trade et al. v. United States, Court No. 16-70, Slip Op. 17-25 (March 13, 2017), was defendant United States (“the government”)’s motion to dismiss a complaint filed by plaintiffs…
Mar 23rd, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of March 22, 2017
United States Court of International Trade Sustaining Remand Results In CS Wind Vietnam Co. v. United States, Court No. 13-102, Slip Op. 17-26 (March 17, 2017) the court sustained Commerce’s remand determination. This matter was before the court following a remand to the U.S. Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) ordered…
Apr 6th, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of April 5, 2017
United States Court of International Trade Default Judgment Granted in Favor of U.S. In U.S. v. Paul Puentes, Court No. 14-310, Slip Op. 17-33 (March 29, 2017), plaintiff Government brought this action to recover a civil penalty imposed on Defendant Paul Puentes (“Puentes”) by the Bureau of Customs and…
Apr 13th, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of April 12, 2017
United States Court of International Trade Default Judgment Granted in Favor of U.S. In Jacobi Carbons AB & Jacobi Carbons, Inc. v. United States et al, Court No. 15-286, Slip Op. 17-39 (April 7, 2017), plaintiffs Jacobi Carbons AB and Jacobi Carbons, Inc. (together, Jacobi”), and Plaintiff-Intervenors (collectively, with…
Apr 20th, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of April 19, 2017
United States Court of International Trade Defendant United States’ Motion for Summary Judgment Denied In Irwin Industrial Tool Company v. the United States, Court No. 15-00285, Slip Op. 17-41(April 12, 2017), plaintiff, Irwin, challenged the United States Customs and Border Protection (“Customs”) HTSUS classification of hand tools imported into…
Apr 27th, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of April 26, 2017
United States Court of International Trade Determination Remanded In Borusan Mannesmann Boru Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. v. United States, Court No. 14-00009, Slip Op. 17-45 (April 20, 2017), plaintiff Borusan Mannesmann Boru Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. (“Borusan”), a Turkish producer and exporter of standard pipe – contests the final…
May 18th, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of May 17, 2017
United States Court of International Trade Motion of Preliminary Injunction Granted In Nexteel Co., Ltd. and Husteel Co., Ltd. and Hyundai Steel Company v. United States, Slip Op. 17-59, Court No. 17-91 (May 15, 2017), the court reviewed plaintiff-intervenor Husteel Co., Ltd.’s (“Husteel”) partial consent motionfor preliminary injunction to…
Jun 7th, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of May 31, 2017
United States Court of International Trade Decision Remanded in Part Back to Commerce In Jinko Solar Co., Ltd. et al. v. United States, Slip Op. 17-62, Court No. 15-80 (public version published May 26, 2017), the court considered motions for judgment on the agency record arising from the final…
May 31st, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of May 24, 2017
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Affirmed Decision that Finding No Violation of Section 337 In Adrian Rivera, Adrian Rivera Maynez Enterprises v. ITC, Court No. 2016-1841 (May 23, 2017), Rivera filed a complaint with the International Trade Commission (“Commission”), alleging that Solofill, LLC (“Solofill”) was…
Jun 8th, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of June 7, 2017
United States Court of International Trade Decision Remanded Back to Commerce In Itochu Building Products Co., Inc. et al. v. United States, Court No. 13-132, Slip Op. 17-66 (June 5, 2017), the Court reviewed the surrogate value date for steel wire rod, an input of steel nails, and the…
Jun 15th, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of June 14, 2017
United States Court of International Trade Decision Remanded Back to Commerce In Mitsubishi Polyester Film, Inc. v. United States, Court No. 13-62, Slip Op. 17-70 (June 8, 2017), the court considered whether the subject merchandise was within scope of the “Antidumping Duty Order on PET Film, Sheet, and Strip…
Jun 22nd, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of June 21, 2017
United States Court of International Trade EAJA Fees Award in Trade Adjustment Assistance Case In Former Employee of Marlin Firearms Co. v. United States Secretary of Labor Slip Op. 17-72, Court No. 11-00060, plaintiff sought to recover legal fees, under the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA), for…
Jun 29th, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of June 28, 2017
United States Court of International Trade Commerce’s Decision on Certain Steel Nails Remanded In Itochu Buildings Co., Inc. et al. v. United States, Court No. 12-65, Slip Op 17-73 (June 22, 2017), the Court reviewed the U.S. Department of Commerce (“Commerce”)’s final results of the second administrative review of…
Jul 6th, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of July 5, 2017
United States Court of International Trade Labor FOP was Reconsidered on Remand In Ad Hoc Shrimp Trade Action Committee v. United States, Slip. Op. 17-76, Court No. 15-00279 (June 29, 2017), the Court reviewed Commerce’s determinations on remand filed pursuant to Ad Hoc Shrimp Trade Action Committee v. United…
Jul 14th, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of July 12, 2017
United States Court of International Trade Clarification Provided in Remand Issues for Multilayered Wood Flooring Case In Fine Furniture (Shanghai) Limited, et al. v. United States, et al., Court No 14-135, Slip Op. 17-80, defendant United States moved for clarification of an aspect of the court’s previous opinion and…
Jul 19th, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of July 19, 2017
United States Court of International Trade Partial Motion for Summary Judgment Granted in Plaintiff Government’s Favor In this penalty case, United States v. Farhan Khan, Court No. 15-250, Slip Op. 17-85 (July 13, 2017), defendant imported three types of freezable products: (1) the beverage container bags (“CoolSack”); (2) the…
Jul 27th, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of July 26, 2017
United States Court of International Trade Remand Determination Sustained in Both Solar Industries Cases In Kyocera Solar, Inc. and Kyocera Mexicana S.A. de C.V. v. United States, Court No. 15-81, Slip Op. 17-90 (July 21, 2017), the Court reviewed the U.S. Department of Commerce’s (“Commerce” or “Department”) remand determination…
Aug 3rd, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of August 2, 2017
United States Court of International Trade LED Candles are Lamps and Light Fittings of Heading 9405. In Gerson Company v. United States, Slip Op. 17-96, Court No. 11-225 (August 2, 2017), the Court determined that light emitting diodes or LED candles may not be classified under Chapter 85. Instead of…
Aug 17th, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of August 16, 2017
United States Court of International Trade: Bankruptcy Stay Does Not Bar Action to Determine 19 U.S.C. §1592 Penalties The automatic stay on lawsuit and actions to collect debts which attaches to a bankruptcy filing does not operate to block the government from pursuing a lawsuit to determine Customs penalties…
Aug 23rd, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of August 23, 2017
United States Court of International Trade Decision on Welded Line Pipe Remanded in Part In Toscelik Profil Ve Sac Endustriusi A.S., and Tosyali Dis Ticaret A.S. v. United States, Court No. 15-339, Slip Op. 17-107 (August 22, 2017), the Court considered plaintiffs’ motion for judgment on the agency record…
Aug 30th, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of August 30, 2017
United States Court of International Trade Default Judgment Granted in Penalty Case In United States v. Deladiep, Inc., Court No. 16-241, Slip Op. 17-108 (August 23, 2017), the United States (“Plaintiff” or “Government”) brought this action against Deladiep, Inc. (“Deladiep”) and John Delatorre (“Mr. Delatorre”) (collectively, “defendants”) to recover unpaid…
Sep 6th, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of September 6, 2017
United States Court of International Trade Remand Ordered in Scope Ruling In Agilent Technologies, Inc. v. United States, Court No. 16-183, Slip Op. 17-119 (September 1, 2017), the Court reviewed Department of Commerce’s (Commerce’s) scope ruling on Agilent’s mass filter radiator (MFR). Commerce determined that the MFR is covered…
Sep 13th, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of September 13, 2017
United States Court of International Trade Preliminary Injunction Granted In New Mexico Garlic Growers Coalition, et al., and Shandong Jinxiang Zhengyang Import & Export Co., Ltd. v. United States, Consol. Court No. 17-146, Slip Op. 17-121 (September 7, 2017), the court considered plaintiff-intervenors Shandong Jinxiang Zhengyang Import & Export…
Sep 26th, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of September 20, 2017
United States Court of International Trade Action to Recover Unpaid Duties and a Civil Penalty is Exempt from the Automatic Stay In United States v. Greenlight Organic, Inc., Court No. 17-31, Slip Op. 17-127 (September 15, 2017), the Court considered whether the automatic bankruptcy stay of 11 U.S.C. §…
Sep 27th, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of September 27, 2017
United States Court of International Trade Plaintiff’s Motion for Summary Judgment Granted; Defendant’s Motion to Reconsider Denied In Irwin Industrial Tool Company v. United States, Court No. 14-28, Slip Op. 17-28 (September 21, 2017), the Court granted plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment and denied defendant’s motion for reconsideration. This…
Oct 6th, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of October 4, 2017
United States Court of International Trade Motion to Dismiss Cross Claim Granted in Part In United States v. UPS Supply Chain Solutions, Inc. et al., Court No,16-00010, Slip Op. 17- 134 (September 29, 2017 ), the Court considered a motion to dismiss cross claims initiated by Defendant 4174925 Canada,…
Oct 11th, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of October 11, 2017
United States Court of International Trade Customs Allowed to Collect Dump Duties from Surety with Interest In United States v. International Fidelity Insurance Company, Slip Op. 17-136, Court No. 13-00256, (October 5, 2017) the Court heard arguments about the United States efforts to collect unpaid antidumping duties from Fidelity….
Oct 25th, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of October 18, 2017
United States Court of International Trade Commerce Decision Remanded in Part In Özdemir Boru San. Ve. Tic. Ltd. Sti., v. United States, Court No. 16-00206, Slip Op. 17-142, (October 16, 2017), Plaintiff, Özdemir Boru San. ve Tic. Ltd. Sti (“Özdemir”), a Turkish producer and exporter to the United States…
Oct 26th, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of October 25, 2017
United States Court of International Trade Commerce Decision Sustained In Weishan Hongda Aquatic Food Co., Ltd. et al. v. United States and Crawfish Processors Alliance, Court No. 16-73, Slip Op. 17-45 (October 25, 2017), Plaintiffs Weishan Hongda Aquatic Food Co., Ltd (“Weishan”), China Kingdom (Beijing) Import & Export Co.,…
Nov 8th, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of November 8, 2017
United States Court of International Trade Casings Classified as Other Made-Up Textiles In Kalle USA, Inc. v. United States, Court No. 13-00003, Slip Op.17-149 (November 2, 2017), the Court denied plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment and granted defendant’s cross motion for summary judgment. The classification issue was whether the…
Nov 16th, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of November 15, 2017
United States Court of International Trade Protest Not Approved Until Entry Reliquidated, CIT Says In a case of first impression, the United States Court of International Trade has ruled that a protest is not “allowed” until the protested entries have been reliquidated and refunds granted. In Erwin Hymer Group,…
Dec 6th, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of December 6, 2017
United States Court of International Trade Changed Circumstances Decision Remanded In Inmax Sdn. Bhd.et. al. v. United States Slip Op. 17-158, Court No. 17-00205 (December 4, 2017) the Court reviewed Commerce’s determination to conduct a changed circumstances investigation of plaintiff, and the results of the investigation. Plaintiff and affiliated…
Nov 29th, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of November 29, 2017
United States Court of International Trade Differential Pricing Analysis Upheld In The Stanley Works (Langfang) Fastening Systems Co. Ltd., et. al. v United States Slip Op. 17-156, Court No. 14-00112 (November, 27 2017) the Court reviewed Commerce’s differential pricing analysis and its application in the fourth administrative review of…
Dec 14th, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of December 13, 2017
United States Court of International Trade New Shipper Review Decision Remanded In Huzhou Muyun Wood Co. v. United States Slip Op. 17-162, Court No. 16-00245 (December 11, 2017) the court reviewed Commerce’s determination to rescind plaintiff’s request for a new shipper review. In June 2015, plaintiff requested a review…
Dec 21st, 2017
Trade Updates for Week of December 20, 2017
U.S. Court of International Trade CIT ALLOWS BROAD DISCOVERY INQUIRY IN PENALTY CASE Officers and employees of corporate importers may have reason to be concerned about their personal liability for Customs penalties and withheld duties, based on the sweeping discovery which the Court of International Trade recently granted the…
Jan 5th, 2018
Trade Updates for Week of January 3, 2018
United States Court of International Trade Affirming Commerce’s Determination in Hot-Rolled Steel Flat Products Case In Hyundai Steel Co. v. United States Slip Op. 17-173, Court No. 16-00238 (December 27, 2017) the court reviewed Commerce’s determinations from a less-than-fair-value antidumping investigation of hot-rolled steel flat products from Korea. In…
Jan 18th, 2018
Trade Updates for Week of January 10, 2018
United States Court of International Trade Remand Ordered in Antidumping Duty Investigation Results of CORE from Korea In Hyundai Steel Co. v. United Sates et al., Slip Op. 18-2, Court No. 16-161 (published January 10, 2018), the Court reviewed the final results in an antidumping investigation involving Corrision-Resistant Steel…