SpaceX illegally discriminated against asylees and refugees in its hiring practices by claiming it could only hire U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents under export control laws, DOJ alleged in a lawsuit filed on Aug. 24. Export control laws "impose no such hiring restrictions," the agency said, adding that the company violated the Immigration and Nationality Act in its hiring practices.
The Commerce Department revised its surrogate manufacturing overhead ratio and its surrogate hourly labor rate on remand at the Court of International Trade as part of a suit on the 2017-18 review of the antidumping duty order on multilayered wood flooring from China. Per the remand results, submitted on Aug. 24, Commerce raised the dumping rate for respondent Fusong Jinglong Wooden Group Co. from zero to 2.05%, while keeping the 0% rate for Jiangsu Guyu International Trading Co. The rate for the non-individually examined companies also rose to 2.05% (American Manufacturers of Multilayered Wood Flooring v. United States, CIT # 20-03948).
The Commerce Department didn't properly select Brazil as the primary surrogate nation in an antidumping review while also using Malaysian data for respondent Senmao's log inputs, the Court of International Trade ruled in an Aug. 24 opinion. Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves said that in the 2019-20 AD review of multilayered wood flooring from China, Commerce failed to point to any record evidence it used in ditching Brazil's data for Malaysia's.
The World Trade Organization will hold a public forum on Sept. 12 with the goal of exploring how "digitalization and inclusive trade policies can support" a "greener and more sustainable future," the WTO announced. The event will feature a lecture by former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the WTO World Trade Report for 2023, "high-level plenaries," working sessions and networking opportunities. The plenary sessions will focus on "how trade can keep the ambition of the Paris Agreement of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees alive" and feature the topics of "fostering sustainable development through trade, the decarbonization of the transport sector, inclusive trade policies, and how technology can boost green innovation," the WTO said.
No lawsuits were recently filed at the Court of International Trade.
Exporter Tenaris Bay City's "only hope" in its case against the International Trade Commission's injury finding for oil country tubular goods from Argentina and Mexico is for the Court of International Trade to "reweigh the evidence," though this is barred by the "statutory standard of review," petitioners led by U.S. Steel Corp. argued. Replying to Tenaris' motion for judgment, the petitioners said that "[e]xtensive evidence confirmed that subject imports materially injured the domestic industry," and that the ITC permissibly cumulated imports from Russia in the analysis (Tenaris Bay City v. United States, CIT Consol. # 22-00344).
The Commerce Department failed to adequately support its position on remand to not treat ship building company Nur Gemicilik ve Tic, an affiliate of countervailing duty respondent Kaptan Demir Celik Endustrisi ve Ticaret, as a cross-owned input supplier of goods primarily dedicated to the production of downstream products, CVD petitioner Rebar Trade Action Coalition said (Kaptan Demir Celik Endustrisi ve Ticaret v. United States, CIT # 21-00565).
The Commerce Department offered greater explanations of its treatment of four types of income related to the selling, general and administrative (SG&A) expense ratio for surrogate company Ayes in the antidumping duty investigation on metal lockers from China. Submitting its remand results to the Court of International Trade Aug. 23, the agency stuck by its treatment of shipping revenue, incentive income, interest income and rental income in setting the SG&A ratio (List Industries v. U.S., CIT # 21-00521).
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CBP's Office of Regulations & Rulings legally reversed the Trade Remedy & Law Enforcement Directorate's finding that Dominican company Kingtom Aluminio evaded the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on aluminum extrusions from China, the U.S. argued in an Aug. 23 reply brief at the Court of International Trade. The government said that OR&R lawfully decided not to apply adverse inferences against Kingtom as requested by petitioner Aluminum Extrusions Fair Trade Committee (Aluminum Extrusions Fair Trade Committee v. United States, CIT # 22-00236).