The following lawsuit was filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
The U.S. opposed importer Inspired Ventures' bid for court-annexed mediation in the company's case against CBP's decision to put two of its rubber tire entries on hold under suspicions the goods had a high risk of tariff evasion. The government said the dispute between Inspired and the U.S. is "legal in nature" and thus "not amenable to mediation" (Inspired Ventures v. United States, CIT # 24-00062).
The Commerce Department decided on remand to replace existing Brazilian surrogate value information to value respondent Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo and Wood Industry Co. with data from Malaysia. Submitting its third remand results to the Court of International Trade on May 9, Commerce dropped the respondent's AD rate in the 2019-20 review of the AD order on multilayered wood flooring from 16.17% to 14.35% (Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo and Wood Industry Co. v. United States, CIT # 22-00190).
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 12 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
Domestic producers led by U.S. Steel said that importer Tenaris Bay City’s appeal of a Commerce Department industry support finding to the U.S. Court of Appeals to the Federal Circuit repeated flawed, sometimes waived arguments (Tenaris Bay City v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 25-1382).
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit sustained both the Commerce Department's 2018-19 and 2019-20 reviews of the antidumping duty order on activated carbon from China in a pair of decisions. Judges Richard Taranto, Alvin Schall and Raymond Chen upheld Commerce's surrogate value picks in both reviews.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices May 9 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The U.S. and domestic producer Ecker Textiles this week defended the Court of International Trade’s ruling that an importer’s canvas banner matisse was covered by an antidumping duty order on artist canvas. They disagreed that the order was void for vagueness, saying at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that the importer was trying to argue the order only covers the exact products made by domestic industries (Printing Textiles v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 25-1213).
On remand, the Commerce Department again chose to directly value xanthan gum exporter Neimenggu Fufeng Biotechnologies’ energy costs for an antidumping duty review. It explained that for the first time in its reviews of the relevant AD order, it was able to break out a surrogate’s costs in a way that let it directly value Fufeng’s energy without fear of double-counting (Neimenggu Fufeng Biotechnologies Co. v. U.S., CIT # 23-00068).