CBP unlawfully initiated an antidumping duty and countervailing duty evasion investigation more than 15 days after receiving an allegation of duty evasion and imposed interim measures in violation of importer Sinoboom North America's due process rights, Sinoboom argued in a Dec. 22 complaint at the Court of International Trade (Sinoboom North America v. United States, CIT # 25-00876).
The following lawsuits were filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
The U.S. agreed to grant a drawback claim for an entry of a luxury Porsche 911 Turbo S vehicle, according to a stipulated judgment filed on Dec. 22 at the Court of International Trade (Timothy Brown v. United States, CIT # 20-03733).
Importer Hardware Resources alerted the Court of International Trade to a recent scope ruling by the Commerce Department on feedstock for window blinds, arguing that it helps its case contesting Commerce's scope ruling on wood mouldings and millwork products (Hardware Resources v. United States, CIT # 23-00150).
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia last week stayed a proposed class action lawsuit contesting the legality of tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act pending the Supreme Court's resolution of the lead cases on the issue (Smirk & Dagger Games v. Donald J. Trump, D.D.C. # 1:25-03857).
Exporter Trina Solar waived its argument that the "nature of the production process" in a third country can compel a negative circumvention finding, and, in any case, it's incorrect as a matter of law, the U.S. argued on Dec. 23. Filling a reply to Trina's comments on the Commerce Department's remand results, the government urged the Court of International Trade to accept the agency's finding that Trina's Vietnamese solar cells circumvented the antidumping and countervailing duties on Chinese solar cells (Trina Solar (Vietnam) Science & Technology v. United States, CIT # 23-00228).
The Court of International Trade on Dec. 23 agreed to expedite importer Camel Energy's case against CBP's detention of its battery entries after the parties filed a joint proposed briefing schedule that accelerates the court's consideration of the case (Camel Energy v. United States, CIT # 25-00420).
The following lawsuits were filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
Importer Blue Sky the Color of Imagination filed a complaint on Dec. 22 in a customs case at the Court of International Trade on the classification of its planning calendars. The complaint comes on the heels of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejecting the trade court's previous ruling in a separate case brought by Blue Sky that classified the importer's goods as diaries under Harmonized Tariff Schedule subheading 4820.10.2010 (see 2512040019) (Blue Sky the Color of Imagination v. United States, CIT # 22-00008).
The Commerce Department stuck with its finding that exporter Hyundai Steel received a disproportionate share of an electricity subsidy in South Korea in the 2021 review of the countervailing duty order on cut-to-length carbon-quality steel plate from South Korea. Submitting remand results on Dec. 23 at the Court of International Trade, Commerce said it changed its analysis of Hyundai's proposed disproportionate use of the subsidy after rebuke from the trade court, but came to the same conclusion (Hyundai Steel v. United States, CIT # 23-00211).