The International Trade Commission's decision to find that freight rail couplers from China and Mexico injured the domestic industry was not backed by substantial evidence, given its finding in a separate, previously conducted investigation that the couplers just from China did not injure the U.S. industry, importer Wabtec Corp. argued in a Sept. 13 complaint at the Court of International Trade (Wabtec Corp. v. U.S., CIT # 23-00157).
The World Trade Organization touted new evidence of how "more inclusive [economic] integration" can benefit the friction points of security interests, inclusiveness and environmental policies in the face of early signs of global trade fragmentation. In its World Trade Report 2023, released Sept. 12, the WTO focuses on globalization and how, despite current challenges, international trade is thriving and stands as a solution to many global issues.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to vote on two nominations to the Court of International Trade during its Sept. 14 executive business meeting. The two nominees are Lisa Wang, assistant secretary of commerce for enforcement and compliance at the Commerce Department, and Joseph Laroski, partner at Schagrin Associates. The pair faced questioning from the committee in July, where the senators asked about their backgrounds and how their past experiences will shape their decision-making (see 2307270043).
The Court of International Trade lacks jurisdiction to hear importer Greentech Energy Solution's claims challenging CBP's decision to assess antidumping and countervailing duties on its 2019 imports of solar modules from Vietnam, the U.S. said in a Sept. 7 motion to dismiss. The "protest procedure" at CIT and "judicial review" under Section 1581(a) are not "manifestly inadequate" to review Greentech's claims, barring review under Section 1581(i), the government said (Greentech Energy Solutions v. United States, CIT # 23-00118).
CBP will pay importer Marubeni-Itochu Steel America $494,902.80 to resolve the company's lawsuit, which said the agency failed to refund excess antidumping duty cash deposits. Per the Sept. 11 stipulated judgment, Marubeni will drop its claims against the government (Marubeni-Itochu Steel America v. U.S., CIT # 23-00004).
The Commerce department revised the antidumping margin for Italian steel exporter Officine Tecnosider to zero percent in its Sept. 11 remand results. The department reached its revised rate using the quarterly cost of production methodology instead of its standard annual analysis (Officine Tecnosider v. United States, CIT # 23-00001).
The Court of International Trade in a Sept. 12 opinion dismissed two claims in an antidumping duty review case, saying success on the arguments would not lead to a changed dumping margin for respondents HiSteel Co. and Dong-a-Steel Co. The claims challenged the Commerce Department's use of the transactions disregarded rule applied to HiSteel's reported costs of slitting services and its adjustment of HiSteel's reported scrap offset. Judge Gary Katzmann said HiSteel's alleged injuries are more "conjectural or hypothetical" than "actual or imminent."
New Hampshire-headquartered NuDay, also known as NuDay Syria, pleaded guilty to three counts of failure to file electronic export information, DOJ announced Sept. 8. From 2018 to 2021, the organization, founded as a nonprofit charity, completed over 100 shipments to Syria but falsely reported the goods would be delivered to Turkey and "artificially deflated" the value of the goods below the $2,500 EEI reporting threshold.
DOJ last week announced its "first-ever criminal resolution" involving a company that violated sanctions by facilitating the sale and transport of Iranian oil. The agency said the cargo -- more than 980,000 barrels of Iranian oil that was allegedly shipped by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps -- is now the subject of a civil forfeiture action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The forfeiture complaint alleges the oil is "subject to forfeiture based on U.S. terrorism and money laundering statutes," DOJ said Sept. 8.
Exporters China Manufacturer Alliance and Double Coin Holdings will appeal a July Court of International Trade opinion upholding the Commerce Department's decision to assign Double Coin the 105.31% China-wide dumping rate in an administrative review of the AD order on off-the-road tires from China. Per the notice of appeal, the companies will take the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In the case, the trade court said that the decision comports with the court's past decision finding that Double Coin did not rebut the presumption of Chinese state control over its export activities (see 2307200020) (China Manufacturers Alliance v. United States, CIT # 15-00124).