The American Cotton Shippers Association asked the Federal Maritime Commission to uphold a recent summary decision that ordered carriers to stop adopting, maintaining and enforcing regulations or practices that "limit the ability of a motor carrier to select the chassis provider." In an amicus brief filed to the FMC May 8, ACSA said it supports the decision because agreements between ocean carriers and non-party Intermodal Equipment Providers (IEPs) place limits on the “choice in chassis provisioning for U.S. cotton exporters, thereby causing delays in the movement of cotton, creating avoidably inefficiencies, imposing needless costs, and ultimately undermining the competitiveness of U.S. cotton shipments in the global marketplace."
The Commerce Department filed an unopposed voluntary remand motion at the Court of International Trade in an antidumping duty case so the agency can consider information submitted by respondent Officine Tecnosider on Commerce's use of the quarterly cost methodology. DOJ said it couldn't find Commerce's analysis of the quarterly average prices of steel slab when prepping its reply brief to Officine Tecnosider, leading to the remand request. The trade court set a status conference for May 15 to discuss the motion (Officine Tecnosider v. United States, CIT # 23-00001).
A suit at the Court of International Trade challenging CBP's assessment of antidumping and countervailing duties on imported sinks and kits should be dismissed because the plaintiff failed to pay duties before filing the case, DOJ said in a heavily redacted May 5 motion. DOJ asked the court to dismiss the case for lack of subject matter jurisdiction and to dismiss one count of the complaint for failure to state a claim for which relief can be granted (RH Peterson Co. v. U.S., CIT # 20-00099).
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit should let appellants Tau-Ken Temir and Kazakhstan's Ministry of Trade and Integration make corrections to their opening brief, they said May 8. The parties said they would have filed an additional extension motion had their counsel known of a previously undisclosed visit by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Kazakhstan on the day the brief was due (Tau-Ken Temir v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 22-2204).
The American Cotton Shippers Association asked the Federal Maritime Commission to uphold a recent summary decision that ordered carriers to stop adopting, maintaining and enforcing regulations or practices that "limit the ability of a motor carrier to select the chassis provider." In an amicus brief filed to the FMC May 8, ACSA said it supports the decision because agreements between ocean carriers and non-party Intermodal Equipment Providers (IEPs) place limits on the “choice in chassis provisioning for U.S. cotton exporters, thereby causing delays in the movement of cotton, creating avoidably inefficiencies, imposing needless costs, and ultimately undermining the competitiveness of U.S. cotton shipments in the global marketplace."
The following lawsuits were recently filed at the Court of International Trade:
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of May 1-7:
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit granted the government's motion for leave to correct parts of two statements it made in a now-concluded case on tobacco excise taxes for cigar wrappers. The U.S. said samples of the goods relied on in the case were taken from a specific entry when they were not, adding that it has identified the source of six of the nine samples considered by the court. While importer and appellant New Image Global never raised the source of the samples as a concern, the company filed two related complaints at the Court of International Trade alleging for the first time that the lab reports were false and unreliable (see 2210310062). As a result, the U.S. asked the court for leave to withdraw the two statements that inaccurately describe the entries "out of a deep commitment to transparency and candor" (see 2304240043). The court granted the motion without prejudice to further proceedings before CIT (New Image Global v. U.S., Fed. Cir. # 19-2444).
The Commerce Department will not consider arguments for a particular market situation that are devoid of quantifiable data, the agency said as part of a proposed update to its antidumping duty regulations. While Commerce acknowledged that it legally can consider non-quantifiable data per the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's decision in NEXTEEL v. U.S. (see 2304200048), the agency said it finds such arguments "typically unhelpful" to its analysis, proposing to not be required to consider them in determining whether a PMS exists. Commerce added that it will not be required to consider "speculative costs or prices" as well.
The following lawsuit was recently filed at the Court of International Trade: