The Commerce Department improperly found that antidumping duty respondent Galvasid received but didn't report additional revenues for freight and insurance for its U.S. sales in the AD investigation on corrosion-resistant steel products from Mexico, Galvasid argued in an Oct. 27 complaint at the Court of International Trade. Galvasid said the agency's application of partial adverse facts available to the company's "reported U.S. gross unit prices to account for the allegedly unreported revenues" was arbitrary and capricious (Galvasid v. United States, CIT # 25-00234).
Coraly Schreiber, a former CBP attorney, has rejoined international trade boutique firm Yormick Law as counsel, opening an office in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the firm announced. Schreiber worked for CBP for over 19 years, including as branch chief of the fines, penalties and forfeitures division and later as an attorney-adviser. After a five-month stint at Yormick Law in 2023, Schreiber then went back to CBP to serve as an international trade analyst, then as a fines and penalties administrator.
A World Trade Organization dispute settlement panel found last week that Colombia has failed to comply with the findings of an arbitration panel regarding the nation's antidumping duties on frozen fries from Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.
The Court of International Trade approved amendments to two of its rules and various of its forms on Oct. 23, the court announced. The court altered Rules 84 and 87. Rule 87, which previously was titled "Forms," is now titled "Civil Rules Emergency" to reflect changes to the Federal Rules for Civil Procedure.
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The Commerce Department erred in finding that importer IPG Photonics' heat sink models don't fit under the explicit exclusion under the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders on aluminum extrusions from China for "finished heat sinks," IPG argued in an Oct. 24 complaint at the Court of International Trade (IPG Photonics v. United States, CIT # 25-00212).
CBP unlawfully excluded two entries of Camel Energy's battery imports for being made with forced labor in China's Xinjiang province, Camel Energy argued in a complaint at the Court of International Trade. The importer said it's not on the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List, and the batteries in its entries weren't "mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part using forced labor in the" Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) (Camel Energy v. United States, CIT # 25-00230).
A group of 36 senators and 171 representatives filed an amicus brief last week at the Supreme Court, challenging President Donald Trump's ability to impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. All the signatories were members of the Democratic Party, save for Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska (Donald J. Trump v. V.O.S. Selections, U.S. 25-250) (Learning Resources v. Donald J. Trump, U.S. 24-1287).
A Pakistani national was sentenced to 40 years in prison on charges relating to the transportation of Iranian-origin advanced conventional weaponry, DOJ announced Oct. 23. Muhammad Pahlawan was convicted in June of conspiracy to provide material support to terror groups, providing material support to Iran's weapons of mass destruction program, providing material support to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' weapons of mass destruction program and conspiring to ship explosive devices to the Houthi rebel group, DOJ said.
The following lawsuit has been filed recently at the Court of International Trade: