Spanish Olive Exporters Association Moves for Stay in CVD Case
A Spanish exporters association moved to stay proceedings in one of its Court of International Trade cases pending the resolution of another one of its CIT cases, both concerning countervailing duty administrative reviews on ripe olives from Spain. The case…
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the association moved to stay concerns the first administrative review, and shares much of the same fact pattern in the other case, Asociacion de Exportadores e Industriales de Aceitunas de Mesa et al v. United States. The association believes staying the case would narrow the issues for the court to decide on, specifically "(i) whether Commerce’s interpretation and application of Section 771B of the Tariff Act of 1930 was lawful with respect to the attribution of grower subsidies to processors of the subject merchandise; and (ii) whether Commerce’s interpretation and application of Section 771(5A)(D)(i) of the Tariff Act of 1930 was lawful in relation to BPS and Greening support payments." Both the U.S. and the defendant-intervenor Musca Family Olive Company stated that they do not oppose the motion (Asociacion de Exportadores e Industriales de Aceitunas de Mesa et al v. United States, CIT #21-00338).