The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 14 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Court of International Trade on May 13 entered default judgment against Chinese exporter Cherish Your Health Food Inc. in a customs penalty case. The U.S. brought the suit in October 2023 claiming that the company hadn't paid antidumping duties on five fresh garlic entries imported in 2018-20 (United States v. Cherish Your Health Food, CIT # 23-00230).
The U.S. on May 10 told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that the Court of International Trade "improperly relied on extra-record information" in rejecting the Commerce Department's final determination in the antidumping duty investigation on hardwood plywood from China (Linyi Chengen Import and Export Co. v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 24-1258).
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 13 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The following lawsuits were recently filed at the Court of International Trade:
Even if the public can deduce some trends or information about a company's confidential product information from publicly available sources, that doesn't "negate the confidential nature of the information submitted" as part of an International Trade Commission investigation, the ITC told the Court of International Trade on May 8 (OCP v. U.S., CIT Consol. # 21-00219).
The Court of International Trade on May 9 allowed a case to proceed against the Commerce Department's pause of antidumping and countervailing duties on Southeast Asian solar panels, rejecting motions to dismiss from the government and nine solar cell importers and exporters.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 10 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Court of International Trade on May 9 said jurisdiction is proper under Section 1581(i), the court's "residual" jurisdiction, for solar cell maker Auxin Solar and solar module designer Concept Clean Energy's challenge to the Commerce Department's antidumping and countervailing duty pause on Southeast Asian solar panels. Judge Timothy Reif said that the case contests Commerce's liquidation instructions and failure to order the collection of duties and not the underlying final determination in the AD/CVD proceedings themselves. In addition, the court allowed nine solar cell exporters and importers to intervene in the case, given that they adequately demonstrated they would be adversely affected by the case. However, Reif said the companies failed to establish intervention as a matter of right and can intervene only due to CIT Rule 24(b), which allows for permissive intervention.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 9 on AD/CVD proceedings: