The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of April 3-9:
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of March 27 - April 2:
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of March 20-26:
ZTE Corporation on March 22 pleaded guilty to one count each of conspiring the violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act through illegally shipping U.S.-origin items to Iran, as well as obstruction of justice and making a material false statement, the Justice Department announced (here). The Chinese multinational company agreed to plead guilty to the alleged violations, pay $430.5 million in fines and criminal forfeitures, and to serve three years of corporate probation, during which an independent compliance monitor will review and report on ZTE’s export compliance program, DOJ announced earlier this month (see 1703080010). DOJ’s announcement cited plea documents that showed ZTE either directly or indirectly through a third party shipped about $32 million worth of dual-use U.S.-origin wireless and wireline infrastructure hardware to customers in Iran between January 2010 and January 2016.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of March 13-19:
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of March 6-12:
No new lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Feb. 27 - March 5, nor were any appeals of CIT decisions filed at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit during that week.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Feb. 20-26:
The Court of International Trade on Feb. 28 dismissed parts of an importer’s lawsuit challenging CBP’s tariff classification of its graduated compression hosiery, arm sleeves and gauntlets (here). While the classification of other models remains to be decided, CIT ruled importer Sigvaris cannot contest the classification of certain lines of compression hosiery and arm sleeves because they were not listed in supplements to the importer’s protests or were not listed in documents during the case’s discovery phase.
Three members of a conspiracy to smuggle counterfeit Apple iPhones, iPads and iPods from China pleaded guilty Feb. 22 in New Jersey U.S. District Court, the Justice Department said (here). Andreina Becerra, Roberto Volpe and Rosario La Marca conspired to smuggle into the U.S. more than 40,000 counterfeit electronic devices from 2009 to 2014. They shipped the devices separately from the labels bearing the counterfeit Apple trademarks for later assembly to avoid detection by CBP officials, DOJ said. Becerra, Volpe and La Marca each pleaded guilty to counts of conspiracy, trafficking in counterfeit goods, smuggling and structuring of financial transactions.