The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Oct. 10-16:
Russia export controls and sanctions
The use of export controls and sanctions on Russia has surged since the country's invasion of Crimea in 2014, and especially its invasion of Ukraine in in February 2022. Similar export controls and sanctions have been imposed by U.S. allies, including the EU, U.K. and Japan. The following is a listing of recent articles in Export Compliance Daily on export controls and sanctions imposed on Russia:
On Oct. 12 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN report:
Federal agents arrested a U.S. citizen and two Russian nationals for charges of exporting controlled microelectronics from the U.S. to end users in Russia, without a license, the Department of Justice said in an Oct. 6 press release (here). Alexey Barysheff of Brooklyn, New York, and Dmitrii Karpenko and Alexey Krutilin of Russia, were arrested, and federal agents executed search warrants at two Brooklyn locations alleged to be the “front” companies of “BKLN Spectra” and “UIP Techno” used for illicit shipments. Microelectronics shipped to Russia included digital-to-analog converters and integrated circuits, often used in radar and surveillance systems, missile guidance systems and satellites, DOJ said. The defendants and their co-conspirators provided the U.S. government with false end user information in connection with the purchase of the items, hid that they were exporters, and falsely classified the exported goods on records submitted to the Commerce Department, DOJ said.
On Oct. 7-10 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
The American Apparel and Footwear Association urged the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to list Alibaba Group and its “constituent platforms, including Taobao” in its 2016 Notorious Markets Report, citing a Chinese government study finding a 67 percent counterfeit rate of goods sold on that platform. In a letter to Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Innovation and Intellectual Property Probir Mehta (here), AAFA Executive Vice President Stephen Lamar said his organization’s investigative monitoring of certain brands on Taobao show counterfeits surfacing in about half of the search results. “Any review of Taobao on a daily basis will find listings for dozens of AAFA member brands at absurdly low prices -- a strong indication that such merchandise is counterfeit,” Lamar said. “Our members who engage in constant monitoring of Alibaba platforms regularly and continuously report widespread proliferation of counterfeits.” USTR did not deem Taobao a Notorious Market in its 2015 report, after the company was last listed in 2012, but USTR last year noted its increasing concern about the slowness, difficulty and opaqueness of Alibaba’s intellectual property rights enforcement program (see 1512170016).
On Oct. 6 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN reports:
The Commerce Department is giving advance notice that next month it will consider revoking the antidumping duty orders on helical spring lock washers from China and Taiwan (A-570-822, A-583-820), gray Portland cement and cement clinker from Japan (A-588-815), welded ASTM A-312 stainless steel pipe from South Korea and Taiwan (A-580-810, A-583-815), and solid urea from Russia and Ukraine (A-821-801, A-823-801), as well as antidumping and countervailing duty orders on multilayered wood flooring from China (A-570-970/C-570-971), in an automatic five-year sunset review scheduled to begin in November (here). These orders will be revoked unless Commerce finds that revocation would lead to a continuation or recurrence of dumping and the International Trade Commission finds that revocation would result in continuation or recurrence of material injury to a U.S. industry.
The International Trade Commission published notice in the Oct. 5 Federal Register on the following AD/CV injury, Section 337 patent and other trade proceedings (any notices that warrant a more detailed summary will be in another ITT article):
On Sept. 29 the Foreign Agricultural Service posted the following GAIN report:
A listing of recent antidumping and countervailing duty messages from the Commerce Department posted to CBP's website Sept. 27, along with the case number(s) and CBP message number, is provided below. The messages are available by searching for the listed CBP message number at http://adcvd.cbp.dhs.gov/adcvdweb.