CBP agreed to return the liquidation status of 830 softwood lumber entries of importer Fraserview Remanufacturing to unliquidated while it awaits further instructions from the Commerce Department on how to treat the entries following the relevant antidumping duty and countervailing duty proceedings. The U.S. and Fraserview filed a stipulation for entry of judgment at the Court of International Trade in the importer's case against CBP's erroneous designation of the entries as deemed liquidated (Fraserview Remanufacturing v. United States, CIT # 23-00063).
The following new lawsuits have been filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
The U.S. and a defendant-intervenor each filed a response Jan. 28 to Chinese steel rack exporter Nanjing Dongsheng Shelf Manufacturing, which is challenging the denial of a separate rate in an antidumping duty review due to a missed deadline. The defending parties said Dongsheng failed to show extraordinary circumstances justified its error (Nanjing Dongsheng Shelf Manufacturing Co. v. U.S., CIT # 24-00085).
Petitioner Mid Continent Steel & Wire voluntarily dismissed its appeal at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit of an antidumping duty proceeding in light of the appellate court's decision in a related case rejecting the use of total adverse facts available against exporter Oman Fasteners (see 2501070084). In all, two appeals were filed -- one challenging the Court of International Trade's injunction on the collection of cash deposits at the AFA rate and another on the underlying AD proceeding itself. With the rejection of the AFA rate in the appeal on the injunction, Mid Continent dropped its separate appeal (Oman Fasteners v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 24-1350).
A federal judge questioned Google's privacy bona fides in a ruling Tuesday. The U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas denied Google's motion to dismiss a lawsuit that a Texas-led coalition of states brought alleging violations of antitrust laws and protections against unfair and deceptive trade practices.
The following new lawsuits have been filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Jan. 20-26:
The following new lawsuits have been filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
Court of International Trade Judge Timothy Reif said in a Jan. 27 opinion that the Commerce Department had abused its discretion by denying steel exporter Hoa Phat Steel Pipe Co.’s submission after it was late, but still filed before the opening of the following business day.
Colombian shopping bag exporter Ditar and domestic petitioner Coalition for Fair Trade in Shopping Bags each filed a motion for judgment in their respective cases challenging the results of the same antidumping duty investigation. Ditar, a mandatory respondent, argued the Commerce Department had been required to make a level-of-trade adjustment between its U.S. and home markets, while the Coalition alleged Ditar’s records were unreliable (Ditar v. United States, CIT # 24-00130; Coalition for Fair Trade in Shopping Bags v. United States, CIT # 24-00157).