Antonia Tzinova, a former partner at Holland & Knight, has joined Weil as a partner in the regulatory transactions group, the firm announced. Tzinova had worked at Holland for more than 20 years, leading its Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. and industrial security team. Her practice will center on export controls, sanctions, CFIUS and cross-border investment matters, Weil said.
China requested dispute consultations at the World Trade Organization last week with India, regarding the latter's incentives in the automotive and renewable energy sectors, the WTO announced.
The following lawsuit has been filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
Due to the federal government shutdown, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington stayed a case from importer Eteros Technologies USA and several of its executives against CBP for allegedly retaliating against the company and its executive for winning a customs case at the Court of International Trade. Judge Kymberly Evanson said that despite Eteros' refusal to agree to a stay, the court still finds a stay to be appropriate "due to the prejudice that will result to Defendants if their counsel is unable to meet deadlines during the lapse in appropriations" (Eteros Technologies USA v. United States, W.D. Wash. # 2:25-00181).
Solar cell exporter Trina Solar (Vietnam) Science & Technology Co. said neither the Court of International Trade nor the Commerce Department addressed the exporter's claim that the nature of the production compelled a negative determination in the antidumping and countervailing duties anti-circumvention inquiry on solar cells from Vietnam. Filing comments on Commerce's remand results in a case on the circumvention proceedings, Trina Solar said the court can now address whether the significance of the statutory "nature and production process" factor "can be reconciled with" Commerce's affirmative circumvention finding "when the circumvention provisions were enacted to address 'screwdriver' operations" (Trina Solar (Vietnam) Science & Technology Co. v. United States, CIT # 23-00228).
The Commerce Department improperly found that antidumping duty respondent Galvasid received but didn't report additional revenues for freight and insurance for its U.S. sales in the AD investigation on corrosion-resistant steel products from Mexico, Galvasid argued in an Oct. 27 complaint at the Court of International Trade. Galvasid said the agency's application of partial adverse facts available to the company's "reported U.S. gross unit prices to account for the allegedly unreported revenues" was arbitrary and capricious (Galvasid v. United States, CIT # 25-00234).
Coraly Schreiber, a former CBP attorney, has rejoined international trade boutique firm Yormick Law as counsel, opening an office in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the firm announced. Schreiber worked for CBP for over 19 years, including as branch chief of the fines, penalties and forfeitures division and later as an attorney-adviser. After a five-month stint at Yormick Law in 2023, Schreiber then went back to CBP to serve as an international trade analyst, then as a fines and penalties administrator.
A World Trade Organization dispute settlement panel found last week that Colombia has failed to comply with the findings of an arbitration panel regarding the nation's antidumping duties on frozen fries from Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.
The Court of International Trade approved amendments to two of its rules and various of its forms on Oct. 23, the court announced. The court altered Rules 84 and 87. Rule 87, which previously was titled "Forms," is now titled "Civil Rules Emergency" to reflect changes to the Federal Rules for Civil Procedure.
The following lawsuit has been filed recently at the Court of International Trade: