The following lawsuits were recently filed at the Court of International Trade:
A Chinese brick exporter alleged Dec. 4 at the Court of International Trade that the Commerce Department is illegally expanding the scope of its antidumping and countervailing duty orders on Chinese-imported magnesia carbon bricks (Fedmet Resources v. U.S., CIT # 23-00117).
The Commerce Department's finding that calcium glycinate is outside the scope of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on glycine from India, Japan, Thailand and China was not backed by substantial evidence, AD/CVD petitioner GEO Specialty Chemicals argued in a Dec. 7 complaint at the Court of International Trade (GEO Specialty Chemicals v. United States, CIT # 23-00238).
In court Dec. 5, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit judges showed significant skepticism about a domestic steel manufacturers’ claim that a foreign steel exporter illegally paid an importer’s antidumping duties (U.S. Steel v. U.S., # 22-2078).
The following lawsuits were recently filed at the Court of International Trade:
Liquified natural gas export project Magnolia LNG withdrew from a lawsuit filed by the Sierra Club challenging the Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management approval of Magnolia LNG's and Golden Pass LNG Terminal's applications to increase their authorized LNG export volumes. Submitting its motion on Dec. 1 to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Magnolia said it wanted to withdraw as a respondent-intervenor "because it has determined to move forward with a new application to Energy for authorization to export LNG to non-free trade nations" (Sierra Club v. U.S. Department of Energy, D.C. Cir. # 22-1217).
The Court of International Trade in a Dec. 6 order postponed a hearing on Chinese exporter Ninestar Corp.'s motion for a preliminary injunction in the company's suit against its placement on the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List. The parties asked for a delay in the hearing while they negotiate a process for the Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force to consider a request for removal from the UFLPA Entity List by Ninestar (see 2312050023) (Ninestar Corp. v. United States, CIT # 23-00182).
The following lawsuit was recently filed at the Court of International Trade:
A U.S. importer of 3D-printing pens argued in the Court of International Trade that its pens should be reclassified as toys, or otherwise as either mechanical heating devices or motorized hand tools. Such an action would reduce or eliminate the antidumping duty for its products (Quantified Operations Limited v. U.S., CIT # 22-00178).
Canadian softwood lumber exporters argued Monday that they should be able to intervene in a growing case regarding the Commerce Department’s 2021 administrative review of the antidumping duties on their products (Government of Canada v. U.S., CIT # 23-00187).