Giorgio Foods Appeals CIT Denial of CDSOA Disbursement Claim

Giorgio Foods appealed a Court of International Trade ruling against its disbursement claim for funds collected as antidumping and countervailing duties, pursuant to the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act. Giorgio had indicated no position on questionnaires regarding three AD duty investigations on preserved mushrooms, and opposed another. The court, as in previous cases, found the company’s constitutional arguments had already been decided in previous cases, and said it didn’t have jurisdiction to hear a claim directed against domestic companies that had benefited from CDSOA funds (see 13030803).