The following lawsuit was recently filed at the Court of International Trade:
The International Trade Commission performed only a "cursory analysis" and presumed causation where none existed in its antidumping duty injury investigation on oil country tubular goods from Argentina and Mexico, Tenaris Bay City and consolidated plaintiffs from two other cases said in an Oct. 12 reply brief at the Court of International Trade (Tenaris Bay City, Inc. v. U.S., CIT # 22-00344).
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Oct. 18 on AD/CVD proceedings:
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The U.S. will appeal an August Court of International Trade decision finding that the statute of limitations for CBP to collect on customs bonds runs six years from the date of the underlying entry's liquidation and not from the date that CBP demanded payment. Per the notice of appeal, the government will take the suit to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (United States v. American Home Assurance Co., CIT # 20-00175).
Exporter Jin Tiong Electrical Materials Manufacturer and importer Repwire failed to argue that the Commerce Department could only limit respondents in an antidumping duty review when the number of respondents is large administratively, petitioner Southwire Co. said in its reply brief at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Should the appellate court find that Jin Tiong and Repwire didn't fail to exhaust their administrative remedies, the decision not to assign Jin Tiong a separate rate rested on the exporter's "failure to submit a timely" separate rate application, the petitioner argued (Repwire v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 23-1933).
The Commerce Department failed to support its use of quarterly costs and failed to provide a rational explanation when it revised the antidumping duty margin for Italian steel exporter Officine Tecnosider to zero percent on remand, Nucor Corporation said in its Oct. 12 remand comments at the Court of Internatinoal Trade (Officine Tecnosider SRL v. United States, CIT # 23-00001).
The Commerce Department properly dropped its subsidy finding in a countervailing duty investigation for respondent Gujarat Fluorochemicals concerning a 30-year land lease to one of its affiliates, Inox Wind Limited, by India's State Industrial Development Corp., the Court of International Trade ruled in an Oct. 13 opinion. Judge Timothy Stanceu defended his prior remand order in the case, which said that based on Commerce's interpretation of its regulation, the subsidy finding couldn't be legal.
Calcium glycinate is not subject to antidumping duties on glycine from India, Japan and Thailand or countervailing duties on glycine from India and China, according to an Oct. 11 ruling by the Commerce Department.
The following lawsuit was recently filed at the Court of International Trade: