A trade group that requested antidumping and countervailing duties on glass wine bottles brought a 27-count complaint to the Court of International Trade on May 21. The petitioner challenged the International Trade Commission’s determination that bottle imports weren’t harming the domestic industry (U.S. Glass Producers Coalition v. United States, CIT # 25-00076).
The U.S. filed a May 19 supplemental brief in a 2021 case involving dual-stenciled pipe from Thailand to address the case’s last “remaining contention” after the importer lost in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Blue Pipe Steel Center Co., Ltd. v. United States, CIT # 21-00081).
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on May 23 denied a petition for panel rehearing and rehearing en banc in an antidumping duty scope case filed by importers Smith-Cooper International and Sigma. Judges Kimberly Moore, Haldane Mayer, Alan Lourie, Timothy Dyk, Sharon Prost, Jimmie Reyna, Richard Taranto, Raymond Chen, Todd Hughes, Kara Stoll, Tiffany Cunningham and Leonard Stark denied the petition (Vandewater International v. United States, Fed. Cir. #s 23-1093, -1141).
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 23 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department improperly failed to respond to an antidumping duty petitioner's claim that a submission from AD review respondent Assan Aluminyum regarding its duty drawback adjustment didn't rebut, clarify or correct information submitted in the petitioner's rebuttal, the Court of International Trade held on May 21. Judge Gary Katzmann said Commerce can't pursue the goal of calculating an accurate dumping margin "without regard for procedural constraints."
Scott McBride, a former longtime official at the Commerce Department overseeing the administration of antidumping and countervailing duty laws, has joined The Bristol Group as counsel, the firm announced. McBride served at Commerce for over 25 years, most recently as associate deputy chief counsel for trade enforcement and compliance. He told us he stayed over the last few years to oversee the agency's major regulatory changes to its AD/CVD administration, which included the ability to address transnational subsidies (see 2505020067), then recently decided to take early retirement.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 22 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Fluid end block exporter BGH Edelstahl Siegen attempted to "inject" an end-use requirement into antidumping and countervailing duty orders on forged steel fluid end blocks, the U.S. said in a motion for judgment at the Court of International Trade. BGH Edelstahl argues that its forged steel blocks are not “fluid end blocks" because they aren't specifically meant for use in hydraulic pumps, it said (see 2503190024) (BGH Edelstahl Siegen GmbH v. United States, CIT # 24-00176).
Agricultural cooperative Asociacion de Cooperativas Argentinas dismissed its antidumping duty case at the Court of International Trade on May 21, according to a notice of dismissal. The group brought the case to contest the Commerce Department's first review of the AD order on raw honey from Argentina. An attorney close to the matter said the suit was filed just in case Commerce denied the group's ministerial error claim. The agency then recognized the claim, reducing the group's AD rate. The group then withdrew its summons so the liquidation of its entries could proceed more quickly, the attorney said (Asociacion de Cooperativas Argentinas v. United States, CIT # 25-00086).
The Court of International Trade sustained in part and remanded in part the Commerce Department's second remand results in a suit on the 2016-17 review of the antidumping duty order on passenger vehicle and light truck tires from China in a confidential May 21 order. Judge Mark Barnett sent back Commerce's selection of exporter Shandong Linglong Tyre as a mandatory respondent and the agency's decision to rescind Linglong's separate-rate status (YC Rubber Co. (North America) v. United States, CIT Consol. # 19-00069).