CIT Temporarily Blocks Liquidation of Kingtom Entries to Consider Injunction Request
The Court of International Trade will put a temporary hold on liquidation of entries of aluminum extrusions imported by Kingtom Aluminio while it considers a preliminary injunction requested by a domestic industry group, it said in an Aug. 18 order (Aluminum Extrusions Fair Trade Committee v. United States, CIT # 22-00236).
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The temporary restraining order comes amid a challenge to an Enforce and Protect Act determination that Kingtom did not evade aluminum extrusions duties. The Aluminum Extrusions Fair Trade Committee had filed the case and requested the injunction, after the Commerce Department reversed its original finding of evasion based on evidence from a related EAPA investigation involving different importers that Kingtom had the capacity to produce the extrusions in the Dominican Republic (see 2208090018).
That reversal for Kingtom’s importers had followed a court-ordered remand to reconsider evidence of Kingtom’s production capacity (see 2206150047). DOJ also recently sought a voluntary remand to reconsider the evidence in a third case involving a different set of importers.