International trade attorney Navpreet Moonga has joined Hogan Lovells as a senior associate, according to her LinkedIn page. Moonga joins Hogan from Wilson Sonsini, where she worked as an associate since 2023. Prior to Wilson Sonsini, Moonga worked at Dechert and Barnes Richardson.
The Court of International Trade on Dec. 2 dismissed a pair of cases for failure to file a complaint within the statutorily prescribed time to do so. Both cases were brought by countervailing duty petitioners to contest the Commerce Department's final determination in the CVD investigation on corrosion-resistant steel products from Canada (see 2510290053). The companies, Steel Dynamics and Nucor Corporation, are represented by different attorneys, and neither immediately responded to requests for comment (Steel Dynamics v. U.S., CIT # 25-00237) (Nucor Corporation v. U.S., CIT # 25-00238).
A total of four hardwood plywood importers or exporters dropped their cases at the Court of International Trade contesting the Commerce Department's final results of the 2021-22 administrative review of the countervailing duty order on hardwood plywood products from China.
The Commerce Department unlawfully found that the South Korean government's provision of electricity for less than adequate remuneration (LTAR) was de facto specific based on heavy consumption by the chemical industry, exporter Kumho P&B Chemicals argued in a Dec. 2 motion for summary judgment at the Court of International Trade (Kumho P&B Chemicals v. United States, CIT Consol. # 25-00143).
The Commerce Department failed to adequately explain its treatment of costs needed to convert steel plates into wind towers in the 2021-22 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on utility scale wind towers from South Korea, the Court of International Trade held on Dec. 2. Judge Leo Gordon said the U.S. provided "inadequate" explanation of the decision to use respondent Dongkuk’s reported conversion costs instead of the costs reported by the petitioner, the Wind Tower Trade Coalition.
Mikki Cottet, a longtime DOJ attorney, is leaving the agency, according to a notice at the Court of International Trade. Cottet joined the agency in 1994 as a trial attorney in the international trade field office and has been a senior trial counsel since 2007. Speaking before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Dec. 1 during an oral argument, Cottet said "it has been an honor to practice before this court for the last 31 and a half years."
Electronics importer Harman International Industries agreed to pay more than $11.8 million to settle allegations it evaded antidumping and countervailing duties on aluminum extrusions from China, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced on Nov. 26.
The following lawsuits were filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued its mandate on Dec. 1 in an antidumping duty case after finding the Commerce Department erred in using likely selling prices as facts otherwise available for AD respondent AG der Dillinger Huttenwerke's cost of production in the AD investigation on carbon and steel cut-to-length plate from Germany (see 2510060037). The court said that where there's a gap to fill on the record, "there must be a reasonable relationship between the selected facts otherwise available and the gap to be filled," and that no such relationship existed between the likely selling prices and Dillinger's cost of production (AG der Dillinger Huttenwerke v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 24-1498).
The Commerce Department abused its discretion in rejecting information submitted by countervailing duty respondent Ternium Mexico regarding three alleged subsidy programs in the CVD investigation on corrosion-resistant steel products, Ternium argued in a Nov. 26 complaint at the Court of International Trade (Ternium Mexico v. United States, CIT # 25-00236).