The Commerce Department unlawfully relied on the Cohen's d test and incorrectly applied partial adverse facts to Indian exporter Garg Tube on remand in an antidumping duty case on welded carbon steel standard pipes and tubes from India, Garg said in a July 31 motion for judgment at the Court of International Trade (Garg Tube Export v. U.S., CIT # 21-00169).
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Ben Perkins, Assistant Editor, is a reporter with International Trade Today and its sister publications, Trade Law Daily and Export Compliance Daily, where he covers sanctions, court rulings, and other international trade issues. He previously worked as a trade analyst for a Washington D.C. advisory firm. Ben holds a B.A. in English from the University of New Hampshire and an M.A. in International Relations from American University. Ben joined the staff of Warren Communications News in 2022.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Aug. 3 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Aug. 2 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The International Trade Commission's decision not to cumulate imports of cold-rolled steel from Brazil with those of China, India, Japan and the U.K. in sunset reviews "conflicts" with Court of International Trade precedent, U.S. steel company Cleveland-Cliffs said in a July 31 reply brief. The company also said the commission didn't follow precedent when it decided not to cumulate imports from Brazil with those from South Korea (Cleveland-Cliffs v. U.S., CIT # 22-00257).
Valve pressure relief components should have been granted Section 301 exclusions, importer Bray International and three of its affiliates said in a July 31 complaint at the Court of International Trade (Bray International v. U.S., CIT # 21-00332).
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated July 31 with the following headquarters rulings (ruling revocations and modifications will be detailed elsewhere in a separate article as they are announced in the Customs Bulletin):
CBP determined that importer Zinus US evaded an antidumping duty order covering wooden bedroom furniture from China by making "material false statements or omissions," it said in a notice released July 28. The agency said there was "substantial evidence" showing Zinus imported Chinese-origin furniture by using general product descriptions and misclassifying the furniture as non-covered merchandise.
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated July 29 with the following headquarters rulings (ruling revocations and modifications will be detailed elsewhere in a separate article as they are announced in the Customs Bulletin):
The Court of International Trade should sustain the Commerce Department's remand results in an antidumping duty investigation on utility scale wind towers from Spain, DOJ said July 31, arguing that respondent Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) failed to show that it shouldn't be subject to an AFA rate (Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy v. U.S., CIT # 21-00449).