Antidumping duty petitioner American Paper Plate Coalition on Nov. 20 pushed back against respondent Fuzhou Hengli Paper's bid to add an "Excel datafile" to the record in the respondent's case against the AD investigation on paper plates from China on the basis that the document was never properly presented to the Commerce Department in the investigation (Fuzhou Hengli Paper v. United States, CIT # 25-00064).
The Commerce Department universally tolled all "Enforcement and Compliance deadlines" for 47 days, the effective length of the federal government shutdown, save for submissions due during the shutdown and requests for administrative reviews of suspension agreements and antidumping and countervailing duty orders.
The following lawsuits were filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Nov. 19 affirmed the Court of International Trade's dismissal of Nebraska man Byungmin Chae's second case on one question in the April 2018 customs broker license exam. Judges Timothy Dyk, Jimmie Reyna and Kara Stoll agreed with the trade court that the case should be dismissed "on the basis of claim preclusion."
The Commerce Department failed to provide notice of any reporting deficiencies related to antidumping duty respondent Fuzhou Hengli Paper Co.'s paperboard input reporting, and the agency was on notice of any alleged deficiency, since the respondent's reporting methodology was "obvious," Fuzhou Hengli argued in a Nov. 17 reply brief at the Court of International Trade (Fuzhou Hengli Paper v. United States, CIT # 25-00064).
AD/CVD petitioner Magnesia Carbon Bricks Fair Trade Committee asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to speed up its appeal on the Commerce Department's decision to exclude seven types of bricks imported by Fedmet Resources Corp. from the scope of the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders on magnesia carbon bricks from China. The petitioner said the relief it's seeking is "modest," and that a sped-up briefing schedule is needed to "prevent competitive harms" to the "domestic refractory-brick industry" that should be subject to "significant AD/CVD duties" (Fedmet Resources v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 26-1160).
A trial attorney at DOJ's international trade field office, Luke Mathers, has left the agency and joined Sandler Travis as an associate, according to his LinkedIn profile. Mathers joined DOJ in 2022 in the New York-based trade field office, where he worked on various customs and antidumping and countervailing duty matters. Prior to joining the agency, Mathers was an associate at Skadden.
An Indonesian jewelry company and its co-owner, along with two other employees, were charged last week with taking part in a scheme to evade over $86 million in customs duties on jewelry imports, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey announced. Two of the individuals, Indonesian national Icha Anastasia and Italian national Claudio Fogale, were arrested last week and each charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud (United States v. PT Untung Bersama Sejahtera a/k/a UBS Gold, D.N.J. # 2:25-12158).
The following lawsuits were filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
CBP illegally subjected importer Raymond Geddes & Company's pencils to antidumping duties on cased pencils from China, since the company's pencils are made in the Philippines, Raymond Geddes argued in a Nov. 14 complaint at the Court of International Trade. The importer said CBP improperly applied a scope ruling on a separate importer, School Specialty, to its goods (Raymond Geddes & Company v. United States, CIT # 25-00265).