The International Trade Commission should issue its “standard limited exclusion order” (LEO) banning from U.S. import all Google smart speakers and other infringing products “within the scope of the investigation” that found Google guilty of Tariff Act Section 337 violations, said Sonos in redacted Dec. 10 comments posted Wednesday in public docket 337-TA-1191. The ITC should “explicitly identify and carve out” from the import ban any Google products and redesigns not found to have infringed five Sonos multiroom audio patents, said Google’s reply.
The following lawsuits were recently filed at the Court of International Trade:
Aluminum industry trade group European Aluminum, filed two lawsuits with the European Union General Court to challenge the nine-month suspension of the antidumping duties on aluminum flat-rolled products from China, the trade association said in a Dec. 20 press release. The group called the suspension "unjustified" and pointed to the alleged "damaging impact" such a move can have on the European industry. The first case challenges the suspension decision from the European Commission itself, while the second goes after the non-collection of the provisional antidumping duties that were already imposed at the time of the suspension.
The following lawsuits were recently filed at the Court of International Trade:
The Court of International Trade on Dec. 22 again remanded the Commerce Department's second remand results in the antidumping duty investigation of steel nails from Oman. The second remand results had been filed in response to a Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit opinion that said Commerce didn't adequately explain its reliance on a financial statement from Hitech Fastener Manufacturer (Thailand) Co. -- a third-country company -- to calculate constructed-value profit since Commerce didn't adequately consider whether Hitech had received countervailable subsidies. CIT Judge Mark Barnett found Commerce's decision to stick with Hitech's financial statement wasn't in compliance with the Federal Circuit.
The following lawsuits were recently filed at the Court of International Trade:
The Commerce Department's use of adverse facts available in a countervailing duty review over the respondents' alleged use of China's Export Buyer's Credit Program is not backed by sufficient evidence, nonselected respondent Evolutions Flooring and Struxtur said in a Dec. 20 complaint. Filing at the Court of International Trade, the companies also contested Commerce's calculations for various inputs' less-than-adequate remuneration programs (Evolutions Flooring v. U.S., CIT #21-00591).
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Dec. 13-19:
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The following lawsuits were recently filed at the Court of International Trade: