Pursuant to the Offset Act1, also known as the Byrd Amendment, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued notice of its intent to distribute assessed antidumping or countervailing duties for fiscal year 2010.
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has invalidated the International Trade Administration’s use of labor rate data from high-income countries in valuing merchandise imported from less developed non-market economies (NMEs), overturning an ITA regulation that increased dumping rates.
The Court of International Trade and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided the following antidumping and countervailing duty law determinations in the first half of May 2010.
Totes-Isotoner Corporation has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review whether differences in customs duty rates, based on gender or age, violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution.
The Court of International Trade and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided the following antidumping and countervailing duty law cases in the second half of April 2010.
The Court of International Trade (CIT) and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) decided the following antidumping and countervailing duty law determinations in the first half of April 2010.
The following antidumping or countervailing duty law determinations of the Court of International Trade (CIT) and/or the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) were decided in the second half of March 2010.
The following antidumping or countervailing duty law determinations at the Court of International Trade (CIT) and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) were decided in the first half of March 2010.
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has posted USTR Kirk's remarks (as prepared for delivery) for his February 19th meeting at the Detroit Economic Club. Among other things, Kirk stated that in just two weeks, the USTR will be releasing the President's 2010 Trade Agenda, which will explain in-depth exactly what the government hopes to accomplish this year. (Remarks, posted 02/19/10, available at http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/speeches/transcripts/2010/february/remarks-ambassador-kirk-detroit-economic-cl)
In Totes-Isotoner Corporation v. U.S., the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Court of International Trade's judgment that Totes-Isotoner Corporation, which had challenged the constitutionality of different U.S. tariff rates for men's and other gloves, had standing to bring its claims but did not plead sufficient facts to state a claim of unconstitutional discrimination.