The following lawsuits were filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
The Court of International Trade on Jan. 6 granted importer Second Nature Designs' motion for a four-month extension to complete discovery in a customs case involving various different categories of decorative plant parts. Judge Lisa Wang ordered that fact discovery shall be completed by May 8 and that any motions regarding the "sufficiency of discovery" shall be filed by June 8 (Second Nature Designs v. United States, CIT # 17-00271).
Customs law firm Stein Shostak withdrew from its representation of importer Cozy Comfort Company in the company's lawsuit regarding the classification of its product, The Comfy, an oversized pullover. The case will continue to be litigated by Chris Duncan, a former Stein Shostak partner, who has moved to Squire Patton.
In a Jan. 5 reply, importer Scottsdale Tobacco disagreed that it hadn’t offered the necessary documentation to support a substitution of unused merchandise drawback for certain 2018 and 2019 entries -- it had done so in its motion for judgment, which was all it needed to do for an issue the Court of International Trade hears de novo, it said (Scottsdale Tobacco v. United States, CIT # 24-00022).
The following lawsuits were filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
The Court of International Trade on Jan. 5 granted stipulated judgments in a trio of cases from importer Jing Mei Automotive (USA) regarding the company's entries of rear drive axle covers and front axle covers (Jing Mei Automotive (USA) v. United States, CIT #s 14-00281, 14-00060, 14-00003).
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit last week denied U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's petition for rehearing en banc of the D.C. Circuit's decision to reject the judge's lawsuit against her colleagues' investigation into her fitness to continue serving on the bench (Hon. Pauline Newman v. Hon. Kimberly Moore, D.C. Cir. # 23-01334).
The following lawsuits were filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
Importer Cozy Comfort Company asked the Court of International Trade to designate its lead case on the classification of The Comfy, an oversized pullover, as a test case (Cozy Comfort Company v. United States, CIT #s 23-00003, 22-00173).
The Commerce Department continues to conflate "disproportionality" with "disparity" in its de facto specificity finding regarding a Korean electricity subsidy, the South Korean government told the Court of International Trade earlier this month. The trade court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit have routinely found that these two concepts are distinct, yet Commerce ignores the courts' instruction when finding that the Korean steel industry, when paired with two unrelated industries, consumes a disproportionate amount of an electricity subsidy, the brief said (Hyundai Steel v. United States, CIT Consol. # 24-00190).