Angela Ellard, former deputy director-general of the World Trade Organization, has joined the Center for Strategic and International Studies as a nonresident senior adviser with its Economic Security and Technology Department, the think tank announced Dec. 15. Ellard joined WTO as deputy director-general in 2021 after serving as chief trade counsel for the House Committee on Ways and Means.
The following lawsuits were filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
The Court of International Trade's recent decision finding that no protests are needed to file suit under Section 1581(i) seeking refunds from tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act "applies solely to pending court cases at this time," said attorneys at Grunfeld Desiderio. Protests may have to be filed if the Supreme Court strikes down the tariffs and CBP has not taken other steps to effect relief.
The Court of International Trade remanded the Commerce Department's determination that U.S. seafood seller Luscious Seafood is not a bona fide wholesaler of the domestic like product in a confidential decision issued on Dec. 15. Judge Timothy Stanceu said Commerce shall issue a new decision "in which it decides whether Luscious Seafood had standing to request an administrative review of certain Vietnamese exporters and producers" (Luscious Seafood v. United States, CIT # 24-00069).
The Commerce Department failed to adequately support its decision in a scope referral to exclude certain carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings made from Chinese fittings that underwent production in Vietnam from the scope of the antidumping duty order on carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings from China, the Court of International Trade held on Dec. 16.
The Commerce Department reasonably found that a certain Moroccan tax subsidy isn't de facto specific, since it's widely available throughout the economy, the Court of International Trade held on Dec. 16. Judge Timothy Stanceu sustained Commerce's reversal of its specificity determination made on remand in a case on the 2020-21 review of the countervailing duty order on Moroccan phosphate fertilizer.
The Commerce Department misapplied its regulations regarding the filing of ministerial error allegations during an antidumping duty administrative review, the Court of International Trade held on Dec. 15. Judge Timothy Stanceu said Commerce erred in only allowing the petitioner in an AD review to raise ministerial error allegations regarding the final results that couldn't have been raised in the petitioner's case brief, finding that this cut against the "express requirement of Section 751(h)."
The following lawsuits were filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit declined to coordinate the appeals of Chinese drone maker SZ DJI Technology and Chinese lidar company Hesai Technology contesting their designations as Chinese military companies. Judges Neomi Rao, Justin Walker and J. Michelle Childs denied the motion to coordinate the appeals for purposes of oral argument (SZ DJI Technology v. U.S. Department of Defense, D.D.C. # 24-02970) (Hesai Technology v. U.S. Dep't of Defense, D.C. Cir. # 25-5256).
The U.S. and attorneys at Sandler Travis filed a joint stipulation in all of the firm's recent cases filed to preserve refund rights should the Supreme Court strike down President Donald Trump's tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.