Kazakhstan's Trade Ministry Should Not Be Allowed to Intervene in CVD Case, Petitioners Say
Kazakhstan's Ministry of Trade and Integration should be barred from intervening as a plaintiff-intervenor in a case challenging a countervailing duty investigation on silicon metal from that country, petitioners Globe Specialty Metals and Mississippi Silicon said in a June 9…
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brief in the Court of International Trade. The ministry's motion for intervention failed to state the administrative determination to be reviewed and the issues the intervenor wanted to litigate, the petitioners said. The ministry's brief contains only three “misnumbered” paragraphs that simply say it is an “interested party.” Also, since the ministry and the plaintiff in the case have the same counsel, “it is not immediately apparent how participation by [the ministry] could bring any different analyses or arguments to the Court on the very limited issues addressed by [the ministry] in the underlying proceeding” (Tau-Ken Temir LLP et al. v. United States, CIT #21-00173).