CAFC Issues Mandate Denying Importer Jurisdiction to Challenge Commerce's AD Guidance
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued its mandate on Nov. 29 in a case in which it found it lacked jurisdiction over a tapered roller bearing importer's challenge to guidance issued from the Commerce Department to…
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CBP on the assessment of antidumping duties. In the Sept. 2 decision, the appellate court upheld the Court of International Trade decision denying Wanxing America Corporation's bid to challenge the guidance under the trade court's residual jurisdiction, Section 1581(i). The Federal Circuit said the action could've been properly filed under Sections 1581(a) or 1581(c). WAC argued it should have been subject to its parent company's zero percent dumping rate (see 2109020039) (Wanxiang America Corporation v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 20-1044).