The Court of International Trade should allow four domestic steel producers to intervene on the side of the International Trade Commission in a case contesting the ITC's injury finding in an antidumping duty investigation on hot-rolled steel imports from Turkey, those producers argued in a Feb. 27 brief at the Court of International Trade (Eregli Demir ve Celik Fabrikalari v. United States, CIT # 22-00349)
The Court of International Trade should sustain the Commerce Department's remand results after the agency further explained its surrogate value selection for coal-based carbonized materials and the financial statements used to calculate the surrogate financial ratios in the 2018-19 antidumping review on activated carbon, both DOJ and defendent-intervenors told CIT in separate responses submitted March 1 (Carbon Activated Tianjin Co. v. U.S., CIT # 21-00131).
The Court of International Trade in a March 1 confidential opinion denied parts and granted parts of Assan Aluminyum Sanayi ve Ticaret's motion for judgment in a case concerning the antidumping duty investigation on common alloy aluminum sheet from Turkey, remanding aspects of the case to the Commerce Department. In a letter, Judge Gary Katzmann gave the litigants until March 7 to review the confidential information in the opinion (Assan Aluminyum Sanayi ve Ticaret v. United States, CIT # 21-00246).
The following lawsuit was recently filed at the Court of International Trade:
The Court of International Trade in a Feb. 24 order stayed a conflict-of-interest suit against the Commerce Department brought by Amsted Rail Co. involving its former counsel, pending resolution of a related matter against the International Trade Commission currently at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Judge Gary Katzmann said that resolution of the related case will likely be controlling on the issues in the present action (Amsted Rail Co. v. United States, CIT # 22-00316).
A case involving the appraisal and correct tariff payments on six large stamping presses for automobile manufacturing has concluded in mediation, with all issues settled, according to a Feb 28 mediation report (Aida-America v. U.S., CIT # 18-00215).
The Court of International Trade on Feb. 24 denied plaintiff Norca Industrial's motion to reconsider the trade court's order staying proceedings of an Enforce and Protect Act case pending resolution of a covered merchandise referral to the Commerce Department. Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves denied the order after holding a status conference the same day (Norca Industrial Co. v. United States, CIT # 21-00192).
The Commerce Department wrongly denied Section 232 exclusion requests for tin mill products despite a lack of domestic supply, Seneca Foods Corporation said in its Feb. 28 motion for judgment at the Court of International Trade. The motion challenges eight decisions by Commerce denying Seneca’s requests for exclusions from Section 232 tariffs for tin mill products consisting of steel (Seneca Foods Corp. v. United States, CIT # 22-00243).
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued its mandate on Feb. 28 in a case in which it upheld the Commerce Department's finding that it had enough industry support to start antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on quartz surface products from India. The appellate court said that Commerce legally held that the term "producer" didn't include quartz surface product fabricators and that the agency backed its finding that fabricators are not producers with substantial evidence via the six-factor production-related activities test (see 2301050044) (Pokarna Engineered Stone Limited v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 22-1077).
The Court of International Trade should grant the government's motion to reconsider its decision to send back the Commerce Department's use of a transaction-specific margin for an adverse facts available rate it assigned to an antidumping duty respondent, the American Manufacturers of Multilayered Wood Flooring (AMMWF) argued in a Feb. 27 response (Fusong Jinlong Wooden Group v. United States, CIT Consol. # 19-00144).