The Court of International Trade will be closed on Nov. 28 and Dec. 26 in addition to the federal holidays of Thanksgiving and Christmas, the court announced. Both days, Nov. 28 (the Friday after Thanksgiving) and Dec. 26 (the Friday after Christmas), will be considered a "legal holiday" by the court for purposes of the "computation of time and motions to enlarge time," the court said.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said on Oct. 31 that all scheduled arguments will proceed as scheduled despite the federal government shutdown. The appellate court has a full slate of cases scheduled for argument from Nov. 3 to Nov. 6, including two appeals from the Court of International Trade. The court added that "all filing deadlines remain in effect" and that jointly filed or unopposed motions for extensions of time for "briefs and other deadlines in non-calendared cases" will be generally granted for up to 60 days. The court said electronic case filing will remain available through CM/ECF.
No lawsuits have been filed recently at the Court of International Trade.
The U.S. filed a notice of supplemental authority at the Court of International Trade in a case on an antidumping and countervailing duty injury proceeding in light of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's decision in Sweet Harvest Foods v. U.S. (NURA USA v. United States, CIT Consol. # 24-00182).
The following lawsuit was filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
The Commerce Department improperly used adverse facts available against antidumping duty respondent Oman Aluminium Rolling Company for its failure to report information on the company's movement expenses and its collection of freight revenues in the 2022-23 administrative review of the AD order on aluminum foil from Oman, Oman Aluminium argued in a complaint filed at the Court of International Trade (Oman Aluminium Rolling Company v. United States, CIT # 25-00215).
Dominican aluminum extrusions exporter Kingtom Aluminio, which faces a CBP forced labor finding, defended Oct. 31 the Court of International Trade’s decision to vacate the finding pending the conclusion of litigation. It declared that “[i]ts very survival is in jeopardy” due to the finding (Kingtom Aluminio v. United States, CIT # 24-00264).
The following lawsuit has been filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
Fertilizer exporter OCP on Oct. 27 challenged the International Trade Commission's second remand determination that the U.S. industry is materially injured by phosphate fertilizers from Morocco and Russia, arguing that the ITC relied on the "same facts and reasoning" rejected by the Court of International Trade in its previous decision (OCP S.A. v. United States, CIT Consol. # 21-00219).
Exporters Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo and Wood Industry, Jiangsu Keri Wood and Sino-Maple won't participate in the appeal on the 2017 administrative review of the countervailing duty order on multilayered wood flooring from China despite having participated in the case at the Court of International Trade (Jiangsu Senmao Bamboo and Wood Industry Co. v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 26-1050).