Conservation group Maui and Hector’s Dolphin Defenders NZ on Feb. 11 moved to voluntarily dismiss its case challenging the National Marine Fisheries Service’s 2024 comparability finding for certain New Zealand fisheries without prejudice, since it's instead challenging NMFS’s 2025 comparability finding that supplanted the 2024 findings in a separate case (Maui and Hector's Dolphin Defenders NZ v. National Marine Fisheries Service, CIT # 24-00218).
The following lawsuits were filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
The Court of International Trade on Feb. 11 granted exporter Pipe & Piling Supplies' motion for an injunction against the liquidation of its pipe entries pending its appeal of the Court of International Trade's dismissal of its case contesting the 2022-23 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on large diameter welded pipe from Canada.
Finished chassis imported by Pitts Enterprises and produced by a Vietnamese supplier, THACO, using components manufactured in China are within the scope of antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders on chassis from China, the Commerce Department said in final remand results filed Feb. 10 with the Court of International Trade (Pitts Enterprises v. United States, CIT # 24-00030).
Camel Energy told the Court of International Trade in a Feb. 10 status report that it intends to continue litigating its case on CBP's seizure of the company's battery entries despite CBP indicating that it intends to release the goods subject to the lawsuit (Camel Energy v. United States, CIT # 25-00230).
The International Trade Commission likely will change its practice of automatically redacting entire questionnaire responses in injury proceedings in light of a recent U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruling finding that the policy violates the "common law right of access" to judicial proceedings, various lawyers told us. The policy change is likely despite the fact that CAFC only ordered the commission to comply with its disclosure obligations in the specific case at issue, the lawyers said.
The following lawsuits were filed recently at the Court of International Trade:
The U.S. requested a voluntary remand at the Court of International Trade on Feb. 9 to allow the Commerce Department to “reconsider its finding that Nur was a cross-owned input supplier” in light of a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in a related case, according to a joint status report (Kaptan Demir Celik Endustrisi ve Ticaret v. U.S., CIT #22-00149).
CBP's consideration of exporter Hoshine Silicon (Jia Xing) Industry's (Jiaxing Hoshine's) petition to be removed from a withhold release order on silica-based products made by its parent company, Hoshine Silicon, is likely to be completed by the end of the current stay period in Jiaxing Hoshine's case at the Court of International Trade. In a joint status report, the U.S. and Jiaxing Hoshine said a remand determination will be issued at the end of the stay period, which is set for Feb. 23 (Hoshine Silicon (Jia Xing) Industry v. United States, CIT # 24-00048).
The Court of International Trade erred in affirming the Commerce Department's use of a report from Colliers International rather than one from Cushman & Wakefield as the benchmark for valuing the rent-free use of land to respondent Kaptan's affiliate Nur, Kaptan argued in its opening brief at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Kaptan Demir v. United States, Fed. Cir. 26-1229).