Court Issues First Procedural Order in Section 301 Tariffs Litigation
The U.S. Court of International Trade granted Akin Gump’s motion to amend the summons in its first-filed Section 301 complaint to include Jasco Products as the suit’s newest plaintiff (see 2011240030). Though the CIT has assigned no judges to this…
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case or the roughly 3,700 complaints that followed, Tuesday’s order (in Pacer), the first issued by the court in the 3-month-old docket, was signed by Judge Lee Gordon. All the complaints allege that the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative overstepped its 1974 Trade Act authority by imposing Lists 3 and 4A tariffs as retaliatory against the Chinese and that it violated the Administrative Procedure Act by running sloppy rulemakings that lacked transparency. All seek to get the Lists 3 and 4A rulemakings vacated and the tariffs refunded.