Importer Riverside Plywood and exporter Baroque Timber Industries (Zhongshan) will appeal a Court of International Trade case on the 2017 administrative review of the countervailing duty order on multilayered wood flooring from China, joining importer Galleher in appealing the case (see 2510090007) (Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo and Wood Industry Co. v. United States, CIT Consol. # 20-03885).
Riverside Plywood and Baroque Timber Industries (Zhongshan) will appeal a Court of International Trade case on the 2018 administrative review of the countervailing duty order on multilayered wood flooring from China (Evolutions Flooring v. United States, CIT Consol. #21-00591).
Neal Katyal, partner at Milbank, will argue at the Supreme Court on behalf of the private parties during the Nov. 5 hearing on the legality of tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a representative of the parties confirmed (Donald J. Trump v. V.O.S. Selections, U.S. 25-250) (Learning Resources v. Donald J. Trump, U.S. 24-1287).
Battery importer Camel Energy urged the Court of International Trade on Oct. 29 to expedite its case on CBP's exclusion of two of its entries. The company said "good cause" exists to speed up the case, since the importer "continues to incur damages in port and storage fees" and the exclusion of the goods "prevented Camel’s North American customers from receiving their products" (Camel Energy v. United States, CIT # 25-00230).
The Commerce Department reasonably found that antidumping duty petitioner Habich GmbH isn't affiliated with its North American sales agent and calculated normal value based on Habich's Mexican sales in the 2021-22 administrative review of the AD order on Austrian strontium chromate, the Court of International Trade held on Oct. 29.
Antonia Tzinova, a former partner at Holland & Knight, has joined Weil as a partner in the regulatory transactions group, the firm announced. Tzinova had worked at Holland for more than 20 years, leading its Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. and industrial security team. Her practice will center on export controls, sanctions, CFIUS and cross-border investment matters, Weil said.
China requested dispute consultations at the World Trade Organization last week with India, regarding the latter's incentives in the automotive and renewable energy sectors, the WTO announced.
The following lawsuit has been filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
Due to the federal government shutdown, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington stayed a case from importer Eteros Technologies USA and several of its executives against CBP for allegedly retaliating against the company and its executive for winning a customs case at the Court of International Trade. Judge Kymberly Evanson said that despite Eteros' refusal to agree to a stay, the court still finds a stay to be appropriate "due to the prejudice that will result to Defendants if their counsel is unable to meet deadlines during the lapse in appropriations" (Eteros Technologies USA v. United States, W.D. Wash. # 2:25-00181).
Solar cell exporter Trina Solar (Vietnam) Science & Technology Co. said neither the Court of International Trade nor the Commerce Department addressed the exporter's claim that the nature of the production compelled a negative determination in the antidumping and countervailing duties anti-circumvention inquiry on solar cells from Vietnam. Filing comments on Commerce's remand results in a case on the circumvention proceedings, Trina Solar said the court can now address whether the significance of the statutory "nature and production process" factor "can be reconciled with" Commerce's affirmative circumvention finding "when the circumvention provisions were enacted to address 'screwdriver' operations" (Trina Solar (Vietnam) Science & Technology Co. v. United States, CIT # 23-00228).