No lawsuits were recently filed at the Court of International Trade.
Exporter Tenaris Bay City's "only hope" in its case against the International Trade Commission's injury finding for oil country tubular goods from Argentina and Mexico is for the Court of International Trade to "reweigh the evidence," though this is barred by the "statutory standard of review," petitioners led by U.S. Steel Corp. argued. Replying to Tenaris' motion for judgment, the petitioners said that "[e]xtensive evidence confirmed that subject imports materially injured the domestic industry," and that the ITC permissibly cumulated imports from Russia in the analysis (Tenaris Bay City v. United States, CIT Consol. # 22-00344).
The Commerce Department failed to adequately support its position on remand to not treat ship building company Nur Gemicilik ve Tic, an affiliate of countervailing duty respondent Kaptan Demir Celik Endustrisi ve Ticaret, as a cross-owned input supplier of goods primarily dedicated to the production of downstream products, CVD petitioner Rebar Trade Action Coalition said (Kaptan Demir Celik Endustrisi ve Ticaret v. United States, CIT # 21-00565).
The Commerce Department offered greater explanations of its treatment of four types of income related to the selling, general and administrative (SG&A) expense ratio for surrogate company Ayes in the antidumping duty investigation on metal lockers from China. Submitting its remand results to the Court of International Trade Aug. 23, the agency stuck by its treatment of shipping revenue, incentive income, interest income and rental income in setting the SG&A ratio (List Industries v. U.S., CIT # 21-00521).
The following lawsuit was recently filed at the Court of International Trade:
CBP's Office of Regulations & Rulings legally reversed the Trade Remedy & Law Enforcement Directorate's finding that Dominican company Kingtom Aluminio evaded the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on aluminum extrusions from China, the U.S. argued in an Aug. 23 reply brief at the Court of International Trade. The government said that OR&R lawfully decided not to apply adverse inferences against Kingtom as requested by petitioner Aluminum Extrusions Fair Trade Committee (Aluminum Extrusions Fair Trade Committee v. United States, CIT # 22-00236).
The Commerce Department legally levied adverse facts available related to China's Export Buyer's Credit Program and applied a 17% value-added tax rate in calculating the benchmark for the Chinese government's provision of primary aluminum for less than adequate remuneration, countervailing duty petitioner Aluminum Association Common Alloy Aluminum Sheet Trade Enforcement Working Group argued (Jiangsu Alcha Aluminum Co. v. United States, CIT # 22-00290).
The Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force (FLETF) violated the Administrative Procedure Act by failing to provide any rationale for adding Chinese printer cartridge manufacturer Ninestar Corp., along with eight of its Zhuhai-based subsidiaries, to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List, the companies, led by Ninestar, argued (Ninestar Corp., et al. v. U.S., CIT # 23-00182).
The Court of International Trade on Aug. 23 upheld the Commerce Department's deduction of Section 232 duties paid by Turkish exporter Noksel Celik Boru Sanayi from its U.S. price in the 2018-19 review of the antidumping duty order on light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from Turkey. Judge Jane Restani said she saw "no reason to vary" this finding, as previously made by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, regarding the government's move to raise the duties solely on Turkish goods.
The following lawsuit was recently filed at the Court of International Trade: