The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit should deny Oman Fasteners' bid to dismiss Mid Continent's appeal of a Court of International Trade opinion which consolidated a motion for an injunction on antidumping duty cash deposits with a motion for judgment, saying the motion to dismiss is a “revisionist version of the record and applicable statutes, regulations, and judicial precedent” and isn't accurate, Mid Continent said in a reply brief June 6 (Oman Fasteners v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 23-1661).
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Attorney Jon Yormick took 29 cases with him when he moved from Flannery Georgalis to create his own firm, Yormick Law LLC, his office confirmed with Trade Law Daily. Yormick began the process of filing notices of attorney substitutions in the cases, all of which are attached to the massive Section 301 litigation. The 29 cases involve 36 total companies that migrated with Yormick. The firm was founded on Jan. 1 as a relaunch of Yormick's small firm practice, last referred to as Law Offices of Jon P. Yormick Co., which existed from 1995-2019.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit should disregard the government's procedural arguments in a case on whether Vandewater International's steel branch outlets fall within the scope of the antidumping duty order on butt-weld pipe fittings from China, importer Smith-Cooper International (SCI) argued in a reply brief (Vandewater International v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 23-1093).
The International Trade Commission ended a Section 337 investigation on imported electronics and semiconductors (ITC Inv. No. 337-TA-1340), according to a Federal Register notice. The Commission declined to review the administrative law judge's May 9 determination that terminated the investigation after Bell Semiconductor withdrew its complaint.
Reaching the end of its work with CBP on legislative drafts under the 21st Century Customs Framework, the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee remains at loggerheads with CBP on five remaining enforcement proposals from the agency, including one on penalties that the COAC completely rejected, according to a white paper released June 5.
The Court of International Trade dismissed a customs suit filed by Ivaco Rolling Miss 2004 and Sivaco Wire Group 2004 for lack of prosecution. The case concerned the companies' claims that its steel articles were improperly denied Section 232 steel and aluminum tariff exclusions. The trade court said the case, which was placed on the customs case management calendar, was not removed at the expiration of the "applicable period of time of removal" (Ivaco Rolling Mills 2004 v. U.S., CIT # 21-00234).
The Court of International Trade granted exporter Tokyo Steel Manufacturing Co.'s motion to sever its case from a suit filed by Nippon Steel challenging the 2019-20 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on hot-rolled steel from Japan, and dismiss its case. Judge Stephen Vaden also granted Tokyo Steel's request to dissolve the injunction suspending liquidation of the company's hot-rolled steel products. The exporter initially filed the case to contest the Commerce Department's deduction of Section 232 steel and aluminum duties from respondent Nippon Steel's U.S. price (Tokyo Steel Manufacturing Co. v. United States, CIT # 22-00180).