The following lawsuits have been filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
Cambridge Isotope Laboratories, an importer of enriched isotope compounds, supported Jan. 23 its October motion for judgment (see 2410250044) over the government’s opposition (see 2412260034). It again said its products aren’t covered by the relevant antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders -- or, alternatively, if the orders are ambiguous, the Commerce Department must conduct an analysis of k(1) factors (Cambridge Isotope Laboratories v. United States, CIT # 23-00080).
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Responding to a request by the court, multiple parties filed four different briefs addressing the impact of Loper Bright on litigation regarding the use of a differential pricing analysis in a Canadian lumber review (Government of Canada v. United States, CIT Consol. # 23-00187).
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Feb. 4 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The following new lawsuit was filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
Exporter Nagase & Co. and the U.S. settled all claims in Nagase's suit challenging the first administrative review of the antidumping duty order on glycine from Japan. As a result, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dismissed the exporter's appeal of the AD review (Nagase & Co. v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 25-1008).
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit judges didn’t ask much as, on Feb. 3, Chinese exporters led by Carbon Activated Tianjin faced off against petitioners and the United States regarding the results of two administrative antidumping duty reviews on its activate carbon products. The exporters argued, among other things, that the Commerce Department used too narrow a category of product when selecting a surrogate value for the prices of an input (Carbon Activated v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 23-2135, 23-2413).
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Feb. 3 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Two models of steel pod from China and specifically imported by Ledvance are not covered by antidumping and countervailing duty orders on steel racks, the Commerce Department said in a Jan. 21 scope ruling. It said the products don’t have the requisite physical characteristics.