The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Aug. 24-30:
CBP recently announced the following antidumping and countervailing duty evasion investigations under the Enforce and Protect Act:
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Aug. 10-16:
The Commerce Department is proposing an overhaul of its regulations on antidumping and countervailing duties “to strengthen the administration of enforcement of AD/CVD laws, make such administration and enforcement more efficient, and create new enforcement tools for Commerce to address circumvention and evasion of trade remedies,” the agency said in a notice released Aug. 12. One key change would allow Commerce to retroactively suspend liquidation and require AD/CVD cash deposits as a result of scope rulings. Comments are due Sept. 14.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Aug. 3-9:
The Court of International Trade on July 31 dismissed a challenge to an ongoing Enforce and Protect Act investigation of antidumping duty evasion, finding the importer must wait for the EAPA investigation to conclude before the court can have jurisdiction to decide the lawsuit.
CBP recently announced the following antidumping and countervailing duty evasion investigations under the Enforce and Protect Act:
CBP recently announced the following antidumping and countervailing duty evasion investigations under the Enforce and Protect Act:
The Commerce Department issued its quarterly list of (i) completed antidumping and countervailing duty scope rulings and (ii) anticircumvention determinations. The following list covers completed scope and anticircumvention rulings for the period Jan. 1, 2020, through March 31, 2020:
Aspects Furniture International used evasion to avoid antidumping duties on wooden bedroom furniture, CBP said in an Enforce and Protect Act final determination released May 21. The American Furniture Manufacturers Committee for Legal Trade (AFMC) filed allegations of evasion in 2017 (see 1708170024), though CBP said it was already looking at the company's entries for possible evasion. The lawyer for Aspects, Robert Snyder, said in an email that the determination "is going to be the subject of an administrative appeal within the regulatory timeline" and noted that the CBP's findings aren't final until the appeals process is completed.