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CIT Grants 15 Redos out of 54 Challenged Section 232 Exclusion Denials

The Court of International Trade partially granted the U.S.' partial remand request in a challenge of over 54 Section 232 steel tariff exclusion denials. In the Feb. 1 order, the court allowed the Commerce Department to take another look at…

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15 of the 54 exclusion denials, per its request, but only gave the agency 106 days to do so, as opposed to the 150-day timeline for which Commerce asked. While the plaintiff, NLMK Pennsylvania, consented to both Commerce's remand request and the agency's condition that a new decision maker be involved in the denials, the steel company sought further conditions such as the identities of the officials who would conduct the new reviews. The trade court denied NLMK's requests.