The Trump administration may begin to use withhold release orders to punish enemies and reward allies, pushing nongovernmental organizations to pursue litigation against companies using forced labor, according to a human rights lawyer and nonprofit director.
A bevy of entities, including advocacy organizations and media groups like the New York Times, filed amicus briefs earlier this week that blasted California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) Act for infringing on privacy and First Amendment rights, with some saying the statute reigns in nearly every form of online content including news sites.
The Court of International Trade dismissed Aug. 21 a case brought by Canadian lumber exporter J.D. Irving in an attempt to secure a lower antidumping duty cash deposit rate for some of its entries.
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
Though California is the leader in privacy legislation and regulation, other states are stepping up their enforcement actions, said a blog post last week by McGuire Woods lawyers. Recent actions by Connecticut and Nebraska attorneys general "highlight an important shift: states beyond California are not only enacting laws aimed at safeguarding privacy, they are taking action to demonstrate that those laws have teeth," they wrote.
Domestic petitioner Catfish Farmers of America brought another case Aug. 19 against an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on frozen fish fillets from Vietnam -- this time, the review for the 2022-23 period (Catfish Farmers of America v. United States, CIT # 25-00156).
Over opposition from the government, which said that the Court of International Trade didn't have the power to extend complaint deadlines, the trade court let honey exporters led by Ban Me Thout Honeybee file their complaint out of time in an order Aug. 15. The court said it would follow up its order with its reasoning in a later filing.
NetChoice lacks standing to challenge the Ohio Social Media Parental Notification Act, nor does the law violate the First Amendment, said Attorney General Dave Yost (R) in a brief filed Tuesday. He asked the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to reverse an April decision by the U.S. District Court for Southern Ohio to enjoin the law (see 2504180031).
China this week extended its countervailing duty investigation on imported dairy from the EU "in view of the complexity of this case," the country's Ministry of Commerce said, according to an unofficial translation. The ministry opened the probe last year (see 2408210025) and had hoped to complete it by August, but it's now extending the investigation through February. The EU filed a dispute consultation request on the CVD probe at the World Trade Organization (see 2409250010).
Sidley trade practice co-lead Ted Muprhy advised clients to prepare now for a potential court ruling overturning International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs by downloading import reports from ACE to demonstrate how much they have paid in IEEPA tariffs since they began. He also said they should do so each month from now on, until there is a final resolution in court.