The following lawsuits were filed recently at the Court of International Trade:

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit declined to coordinate the appeals of Chinese drone maker SZ DJI Technology and Chinese lidar company Hesai Technology contesting their designations as Chinese military companies. Judges Neomi Rao, Justin Walker and J. Michelle Childs denied the motion to coordinate the appeals for purposes of oral argument (SZ DJI Technology v. U.S. Department of Defense, D.D.C. # 24-02970) (Hesai Technology v. U.S. Dep't of Defense, D.C. Cir. # 25-5256).

The U.S. and attorneys at Sandler Travis filed a joint stipulation in all of the firm's recent cases filed to preserve refund rights should the Supreme Court strike down President Donald Trump's tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

Petitioners for the countervailing duty review of Thai shrimp jointly asked the Court of International Trade on Dec. 15 to strike an exporter’s reply brief, saying the brief relied on non-record factual information (Soc Trang Seafood Joint Stock Co. v. United States, CIT # 25-00030).

Responding to a plywood importer’s motion for rehearing, the U.S. Dec. 12 denied that it had suppressed evidence in “flagrant violation” of a remand order, saying the importer, InterGlobal Forest, had no basis for seeking a rehearing of its case (American Pacific Plywood v. United States, CIT Consol. # 20-03914).

The Court of International Trade on Dec. 8 issued a statutory injunction against the liquidation of any unliquidated entries of importer IPG Photonics' heat sink models, while the importer challenges the Commerce Department's antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders scope ruling on IPG's products (IPG Photonics v. United States, CIT # 25-00212).

In two briefs Dec. 8, U.S. shrimp producers again supported the International Trade Commission's finding that shrimp imports from Ecuador, India and Vietnam injured the U.S. industry (Industrial Pesquera Santa Priscila v. United States, CIT # 25-00029) (Seafood Exporters Association of India v. United States, CIT # 25-00031) (Shrimp Committee of the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers v. United States, CIT # 25-00032).

The Court of International Trade sustained the Commerce Department's surrogate value pick for ocean freight charges and its valuation of minor fabricated components in the antidumping duty investigation on mobile access equipment from China. Judge M. Miller Baker upheld the agency's decisions as reasonable after initially remanding both selections.

The following lawsuits were filed recently at the Court of International Trade:

The U.S. moved to toss a group of importers' counterclaims in a customs penalty case for failure to identify a proper "jurisdictional grant or cause of action," arguing that the companies should have raised their claims before the Commerce Department first (United States v. Lexjet, CIT # 23-00105).