The High Court of Singapore will consider whether an arbitral award can be enforced in Singapore in light of U.S. sanctions on the party slated to receive the award. Earlier this month, Judge Thomas Bathurst declined to first and separately consider whether the enforcement of the award is contrary to Singapore's public policy due to the sanctions, opting instead to consider that question along with the other elements of the arbitral dispute.
Able Groupe, an infant formula retailer, pleaded guilty on Nov. 21 to smuggling European infant formula into the U.S. and importing it in violation of the FDA's prior notice requirements, DOJ announced.
The following lawsuits were filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
The U.S. asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Nov. 21 for a voluntary remand in a case involving a challenge to the Commerce Department's use of the Cohen's d test in light of the CAFC's decision in Marmen v. U.S., invalidating the agency's approach to the test. The government asked that oral argument in the case, which is currently set for Dec. 1, be canceled (Mid Continent Steel & Wire v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 24-1556).
The Commerce Department permissibly changed its reason for using partial adverse facts available against antidumping duty respondent Saha Thai on remand in the 2020-21 administrative review of the AD order on Thai steel pipes and tubes, the U.S. told the Court of International trade on Nov. 24. The government said Commerce complied with the basic tenets of administrative law by taking new agency action on remand, adding that the agency properly applied partial AFA to find Saha Thai is affiliated with BNK Steel Co., a home market customer (Saha Thai Steel Pipe Public Company v. United States, CIT # 21-00627).
Danielle Cossey, a staff attorney at the Commerce Department, will leave the agency to join Sidley Austin, Cossey confirmed to us. She joined Commerce in the Office of the Chief Counsel for Trade Enforcement and Compliance in 2023 after graduating from the George Washington University Law School. Cossey will start at Sidley on Dec. 1.
The U.S. arrested two U.S. citizens and two Chinese nationals last week after accusing them of using a purported Florida real estate firm, an Alabama distributor and nearly $4 million in wire transfers to buy and illegally export “cutting edge” chips to China.
The following lawsuits were filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
Mandi Rae Lumley, a member of the Yakama Native American tribe, dropped her lawsuit against the imposition of tariffs against herself and her company as a violation of the 1855 Yakama Treaty. On Nov. 20, Lumley's counsel, Rugged Law, a criminal justice firm in Portland, Oregon, filed a notice of voluntary dismissal without prejudice in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon (Mandi Rae Lumley v. U.S. Customs and Border Protection, D.Or. # 3:25-02003).
Steel plate exporters Hyundai Steel and Dongkuk Steel Mill filed a pair of reply briefs at the Court of International Trade on Nov. 20, contesting the Commerce Department's de facto specificity regarding South Korea's discounted off-peak electricity prices in the 2022 administrative review of the countervailing duty order on cut-to-length carbon-quality steel plate from South Korea. Both companies contested Commerce's grouping of three unrelated industries to find that the steel industry received a disproportionate amount of the subsidy (Hyundai Steel v. United States, CIT Consol. # 24-00190).