Another petitioner spoke up in favor of the International Trade Commission's redaction of confidential business information after the commission was taken to task for allegedly going too far by Court of International Trade Judge Stephen Vaden (see 2404010066). (OCP v. U.S., CIT Consol. # 21-00219).
In a 2022 case brought against both CBP and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, plaintiff Curia Global Inc., a drug development company, once again amended its complaint to remove one of its family companies, Curia Wisconsin, because “the entity is in the process of changing ownership and no longer wishes to join in this action" (Curia Global Inc. v. U.S., CIT # 22-00247).
Lawyers gave feedback this week on recently issued Commerce Department antidumping and countervailing duty regulations, with at least one attorney saying the changes were mostly positive for petitioners. They also discussed challenges faced by different parties during International Trade Commission investigations, and they said they sided with the ITC in its ongoing defense of its treatment of confidential information at the Court of International Trade.
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The following lawsuit was recently filed at the Court of International Trade:
The Court of International Trade on May 20 entered stipulated judgment in a pair of customs suits brought by Home Depot U.S.A., lowering the duty rate on the retail giant's imported residential door knobs packaged with at least one deadbolt, from 5.7% to 3.9% (Home Depot U.S.A. v. United States, CIT Consol. # 14-00122, -00123).
AD petitioners Bio-Lab, Innovative Water Care and Occidental Chemical Corporation merged their challenge to an antidumping duty review on chlorinated isocyanurates from China at the Court of International Trade with a similar challenge from Juancheng Kangtai Chemical Co. and Heze Huayi Chemical Co. (Bio-Lab, et al. v. United States, CIT # 24-00024) (Juancheng Kangtai Chemical Co. v. United States, CIT # 24-00026).
The Commerce Department issued a notice in the Federal Register on its recently initiated antidumping and countervailing duty investigations on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into modules, from Cambodia (A-555-003/C-555-004), Malaysia (A-557-830/C-557/831), Thailand (A-549-851/C-549-852) and Vietnam (A-552-841/C-552-842). The CVD investigations cover entries for the calendar year 2023. The AD investigations on Cambodia, Malaysia and Thailand cover entries April 1, 2023, through March 31, 2024, and the AD investigation on Vietnam covers entries Oct. 1, 2023, through March 31, 2024.
The following lawsuit was recently filed at the Court of International Trade:
A Chinese exporter of passenger vehicle and light truck tires said in a May 14 complaint that the Commerce Department repeatedly made a mathematical error in an antidumping duty review by constructing input freight shipment cost without considering distance (Giti Tire Global Trading PTE. LTD. v. U.S., CIT # 24-00083).