On April 26, 2023, a domestic producer of steel cylinders filed a petition with the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) seeking the imposition of antidumping (AD) and...more
On January 18, 2022, domestic producers filed petitions with the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), seeking antidumping (AD) duties on imports of certain tin mill products...more
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On September 20, Commerce published in the Federal Register updated regulations affecting its administration of new shipper reviews, scope inquiries and circumvention inquiries.
The new regulations go...more
- President Trump issued Presidential Proclamation 9980 on January 24, 2020, expanding the product scope of existing tariffs imposed under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 on certain articles of aluminum and...more
2/10/2020
/ Aluminum Sales ,
Customs and Border Protection ,
Exclusions ,
Imports ,
National Security ,
Presidential Proclamations ,
Section 232 ,
Steel Industry ,
Supply Chain ,
Tariffs ,
Trade Expansion Act of 1962 ,
Trump Administration ,
U.S. Commerce Department ,
US Trade Policies
The U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT), like most other federal courts, may issue an injunction to afford equitable relief to the parties that appear before it. Those injunctions typically bar the federal government from...more
7/30/2019
/ Anti-Dumping Duty ,
Countervailing Duties ,
Court of International Trade ,
Customs and Border Protection ,
Imports ,
Injunctions ,
Injunctive Relief ,
Irreparable Harm ,
Liquidation ,
Loss of Goodwill ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
U.S. Commerce Department
Antidumping and countervailing duty orders address unfairly priced and subsidized imports that enter the United States. Each order contains a “scope” that identifies in part the “class or kind” or merchandise covered by...more
6/7/2019
/ Ambiguous ,
Anti-Dumping Duty ,
Appeals ,
Countervailing Duties ,
Court of International Trade ,
Customs and Border Protection ,
Dismissals ,
Imports ,
Liquidation ,
New Rules ,
Scope of Review ,
Subject Matter Jurisdiction ,
U.S. Commerce Department
At the end of 2018, the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) issued an opinion in One World Techs., Inc. v. United States. In that decision, Judge Choe-Groves concluded that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)...more
5/20/2019
/ Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) ,
Appeals ,
Asset Seizure ,
Court of International Trade ,
Customs and Border Protection ,
Exclusion Orders ,
Imports ,
Injunctions ,
Injunctive Relief ,
Interlocutory Appeals ,
International Trade Commission (ITC) ,
Irreparable Harm ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patents ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Section 337 ,
Separation of Powers ,
Subject Matter Jurisdiction ,
Tariff Act of 1930
In a variety of contexts, U.S. government agencies regulating international trade and the cross-border movement of goods and services possess significant civil and criminal penalty authority. For example, the primary agency...more
4/26/2019
/ Administrative Procedure ,
Anti-Dumping Duty ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Court of International Trade ,
Cross-Border Transactions ,
Customs and Border Protection ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Dismissal With Prejudice ,
Exports ,
Goods or Services ,
Imports ,
Right to a Jury ,
Seventh Amendment ,
Trade Remedies
Over the last decade, the U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) have stepped up their enforcement activities. Those efforts have resulted from additional appropriations and new investigatory...more