The following lawsuits were recently filed at the Court of International Trade:

CBP failed to require that a company accused of evasion of antidumping and countervailing duties provide adequate public summaries of its confidential information, and the agency also failed to properly review the administrative record, the Ad Hoc Shrimp Trade Enforcement Committee (AHSTEC) told the Court of International Trade in a Jan. 10 reply to briefs submitted by the Justice Department and defendant-intervenors MSeafood Corp. and Minh Phu Seafood (Ad Hoc Shrimp Trade Enforcement Committee v. United States, CIT #21-00129).

The U.S.Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit shouldn't strike down President Donald Trump's extension of Section 232 steel and aluminum tariffs onto "derivative" products made beyond procedural deadlines since the tariffs had a positive impact on the U.S. industry, The American Steel Nail Coalition said in Jan. 10 proposed amicus brief. The coalition asked the court for leave to file the amicus brief in a bid to broaden the defense of the president's tariff action. The proposed amicus further said that this issue has already been decided following the Federal Circuit's decision in the key case Transpacific Steel v. U.S. (PrimeSource Building Products v. United States, Fed. Cir. #21-2066).

No lawsuits have been filed recently at the Court of International Trade.

The Court of International Trade granted CBP's voluntary motion for a remand in an Enforce and Protect Act investigation over magnesia alumina carbon bricks, in which Fedmet Resources was found to have skirted the order on magnesia carbon bricks from China. CBP requested the voluntary remand, with the consent of Fedmet, to go over key issues raised by the plaintiff, including scope-related and due process arguments (see 2201060035). CBP said it would review the administrative record and potentially provide public versions of certain confidential documents discussed in Fedmet's briefs, possibly alleviating one of the plaintiff's due process concerns by also giving it a chance to provide rebuttal information (Fedmet Resources Corporation v. United States, CIT #21-00248).

CBP wants the Court of International Trade to grant its voluntary remand request to reconsider its final determination in an antidumping and countervailing duty evasion case. The U.S. said the remand would allow CBP to consider the issues raised by plaintiff Fedmet Resources, including scope-related and due process arguments. Fedmet signed off on the remand request while the defendant-intervenor Magnesia Carbon Bricks Fair Trade Committee didn't directly oppose it.

A clear reading of the law allows for an importer to bring in goods deemed "drug paraphernalia" federally if they are legal at the state level, Washington-based importer Keirton USA told the Court of International Trade in its Jan. 5 motion for judgment. Seeking to get back its imports of cannabis processors from CBP, Keirton told the trade court that the exemption allowing for the import of drug paraphernalia where it is legal at the state level is "plain and unambiguous and must be applied accordingly" (Keirton USA, Inc. v. U.S. Customs and Border Protection, CIT #21-00452).

The Commerce Department has issued the preliminary results of its antidumping duty administrative review on refillable stainless steel kegs (kegs) from China (A-570-093). The agency preliminarily assigned the mandatory respondent, Guangzhou Ulix Industrial & Trading Co., Ltd., a zero percent AD rate. If this rate is confirmed in the final results, Commerce would not assess AD duties for subject merchandise from Ulix entered between Dec. 13, 2019, and Nov. 30, 2020.

No lawsuits have been filed recently at the Court of International Trade.

The Department of Justice and plaintiff-appellee Mid Continent Steel & Wire both filed corrected response briefs to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit after the appellate court found their initial submissions to not be in compliance with court rules. The Federal Circuit said that the U.S.'s brief had an incomplete case number on the cover, since it didn't include all consolidated case numbers, and that it failed to follow the court's format for referencing the underlying record. Mid Continent's brief also suffered from this latter problem while also including a mismatch of the contact information for Lauren Fraid, counsel for Mid Continent, between the brief and the user's account (Xi'an Metals & Minerals Import & Export Co. v. U.S., Fed. Cir. #21-2205).