Trade-Related Court Cases Filed Dec. 2-8
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Dec. 2-8:
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Innotex Inc., challenging CBP's denial of its protest claiming its firefighter turn-out jackets and pants of Harmonized Tariff Schedule subheading 6211.33.9068 should qualify for duty-free treatment under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Free Trade Agreement. # 24-00214. Filed Dec. 2.
RSP, Inc., challenging lists 3 and 4A Section 301 tariffs on products from China. # 24-00215. Filed Dec. 2.
The Great States Corporation, doing business as American Lawn Mower Co., challenging CBP's denial of its protest claiming its agricultural trimmers, pruners and shears of Harmonized Tariff Schedule subheadings 8467.29.007 and 8467.29.0090, both free of duty, and secondary subheading 9903.88.15, should be excluded from Section 301 duties under secondary subheading 9817.00.5000. # 24-00216. Filed Dec. 2.
US Footwear Holdings, LLC, challenging CBP's denial of its protest claiming its footwear of Harmonized Tariff Schedule subheadings 6404.19.2060, 6401.10.0000 or 6404.19.2060, dutiable at 37.5%, should be classified under subheading 6405.20.9030 or 6405.90.9060, dutiable at 12.5%. # 24-00217. Filed Dec. 4.
Maui and Hector's Dolphin Defenders NZ Inc., challenging the National Marine Fisheries Service's comparability finding on New Zealand's West Coast North Island set-net and trawl fisheries as arbitrary and capricious. # 24-00218. Filed Dec. 4.
Coalition of American Manufacturers of Mobile Access Equipment, challenging the Commerce Department's final results in the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on mobile access equipment and subassemblies from China, covering entries in 2022-23. # 24-00219. Filed Dec. 6.
Appeals of CIT Decisions
The following appeals of Court of International Trade decisions were filed at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit during the week of Dec. 2-8:
Struxtur, Inc. and Evolutions Flooring, Inc., challenging a September CIT decision sustaining the Commerce Department's use of a simple average of the mandatory respondents' rates in the 2016-17 review of the antidumping duty order on multilayered wood flooring from China to set the non-selected respondents' rate. # 25-1232. Filed Dec. 2.