Defendant-intervenor Dixon Ticonderoga on Jan. 28 joined the Commerce Department in opposing pencil importer School Specialty’s scope ruling challenge before the Court of International Trade (School Specialty v. United States, CIT # 24-00098).

Steel rail coupler importer Wabtec filed a supplemental brief in its dispute against a repeated antidumping investigation (see 2405220058) that saw it change tracks somewhat. It argued that the International Trade Commission wrongly expanded the scope of its injury determination to include unattached couplers, and it claimed that “[e]very statutory element imposes a limit” on Commerce’s ability to define an investigation’s reach (Wabtec Corporation v. United States, CIT #s 23-00160, -00161).

The Commerce Department's antidumping duty order on artist canvas from China is "void-for-vagueness and unconstitutional," importer Printing Textiles, doing business as Berger Textiles, told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in its opening brief. The company argued that Commerce's "impermissibly unlawful" scope ruling including its canvas banner matisse within the scope of the order "denied Berger adequate notice," adding that the agency "failed to address due process concerns of vague language in the scope of the order" (Printing Textiles v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 25-1213).

The following new lawsuits have been filed recently at the Court of International Trade:

The Commerce Department erred in selecting Turkey and not Bulgaria as the main surrogate country in the 2022-23 review of the antidumping duty order on pure magnesium from China, exporters Tianjin Magnesium International Co. and Tianjin Magnesium Metal Co. argued in a Jan. 27 complaint at the Court of International Trade (Tianjin Magnesium International Co. v. United States, CIT # 25-00002).

The Commerce Department erred in picking Malaysia as the main surrogate country in the 2022-23 review of the antidumping duty order on activated carbon from China, exporter Carbon Activated Corp. argued in a Jan. 27 complaint at the Court of International Trade. Carbon Activated said that Romania was the better choice and that Commerce's use of Malaysia surrogate values for coal tar, sub-bituminous coal, hydrochloric acid, solid sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide was unsupported by substantial evidence (Carbon Activated Tianjin Co. v. United States, CIT # 24-00265).

Two multilayered wood flooring exporters, Baroque Industries and Riverside Plywood, said Jan. 23 that the Commerce Department wrongly applied adverse facts available to several of Baroque’s input suppliers, determining they were under government control even though “[n]ecessary information for these eighteen suppliers was not missing from the record” (Baroque Timber Industries (Zhongshan) Co. v. United States, CIT # 24-00106).

Defendant-intervenor Triune Technofab said the financial information the Commerce Department used in a review of boltless steel shelving units from India should be considered a publicly available record, not a private one (Edsal Manufacturing v. United States, CIT # 24-00087).

The following new lawsuits have been filed recently at the Court of International Trade:

Exporter Soc Trang Seafood Joint Stock Co. took to the Court of International Trade on Jan. 24 to challenge the Commerce Department's surrogate value for land rental prices in Vietnam in the countervailing duty investigation on frozen warmwater shrimp from Vietnam (Soc Trang Seafood Joint Stock Co. v. United States, CIT # 25-00030).