Importer Wanxiang America agreed to pay over $53 million to settle claims that the company unlawfully avoided antidumping duties on its car part entries, DOJ announced. The settlement was filed at the Court of International Trade and resolves the government's customs penalty case against Wanxiang in which it was seeking $97 million from the company (see 2512180043).
The following lawsuits were filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
The Court of International Trade remanded the Commerce Department's expedited countervailing duty review on Canadian softwood lumber for the ninth time on Dec. 18, finding the agency abused its discretion in declining to reopen the record to let respondent Les Produits Forestiers D&G and its cross-owned affiliate Les Produits Forestiers Portbec add information to help distinguish sales affected by subsidies to unaffiliated input suppliers.
The Court of International Trade on Dec. 19 denied exporter Fuzhou Hengli Paper Co.'s bid to add an Excel data file to the record in the company's case against the antidumping duty investigation on Chinese paper plates. Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves held that Fuzhou Hengli failed to adhere to the Commerce Department's procedures, since the company only filed its submission "on the one-day lag system on a temporary basis in connection with the barcode of the non-final rebuttal brief" and never re-filed the submission "after one business day with the final rebuttal brief."
The following lawsuits were filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
The U.S. and importer Wanxiang America agreed to settle a customs penalty case against the importer in which the U.S. was seeking $97 million for unpaid antidumping duties on the company's car part entries. Counsel for Wanxiang America didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Court of International Trade on Dec. 18 denied an application for a temporary restraining order against the liquidation of entries made by various companies represented by Grunfeld Desiderio seeking refunds of tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (Strato Technology Solutions v. United States, CIT Consol. # 25-00322).
As importers everywhere await the Supreme Court's final decision on the fate of tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, more and more attorneys are counseling their clients to file preemptive lawsuits at the Court of International Trade to guarantee their right to a refund of the IEEPA tariffs.
The Commerce Department reasonably found that wheels made in a third country with a mix of Chinese and third-country parts are covered by the scope of the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders on steel trailer wheels from China, the U.S. told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Dec. 15 (Asia Wheel Co. v. United States, Fed. Cir. #s 25-1689, 25-1694).
The Court of International Trade on Dec. 19 denied exporter Fuzhou Hengli Paper's motion to supplement the record to add an Excel data file in a case on the antidumping duty investigation on paper plates from China. Judge Jennifer Choe-Groves held that the exporter didn't properly file its exhibit in line with Commerce's procedures for filing documents on the agency's ACCESS system, since Fuzhou Hengli only filed its submission "on the one-day lag system on a temporary basis in connection with the barcode of the non-final rebuttal brief." The exporter never re-filed the submission "after one business day with the final rebuttal brief," the judge noted. By failing to re-file the next day, the respondent filed its final rebuttal brief without an attached exhibit, meaning the file at issue was never "formally placed on the administrative record," the court said.