In the challenge to the law that would shut down TikTok in the U.S. or force parent ByteDance to sell the social media giant, TikTok and ByteDance submitted a statement of issues June 6 to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (TikTok v. Merrick Garland, D.C. Cir. # 24-1113).
Exporters Jinko Solar Holding Co. and Boviet Solar Technology Co., along with various of their subsidiaries and affiliated importers, moved to intervene in a case at the Court of International Trade against the Commerce Department's pause of antidumping and countervailing duties on Southeast Asian solar panels (Auxin Solar v. United States, CIT # 23-00274).
A defendant-intervenor in an exporter’s case challenging the results of a sunset review of the antidumping duty order on softwood lumber from Canada on June 6 opposed a motion to stay proceedings while a similar case winds its way through the appeals process. It argued that while the case on appeal deals (again) (see 2107150032) with the proper use of the “Cohen’s d test,” (see 2401110037) the case is not applicable in its own litigation (Resolute FP Canada v. U.S., CIT # 23-00095).
The Commerce Department on June 7 lowered the dumping margin for nine separate rate respondents in the 2016-17 review of the antidumping duty order on multilayered wood flooring from China, from 42.57% to 31.63%, after revising aspects of its dumping analysis (Fusong Jinlong Wooden Group Co. v. United States, CIT # 19-00144).
A domestic producer of glycine brought a motion for judgment against the U.S. on June 6 regarding a negative scope ruling that calcium glycinate was too far removed a precursor of glycine to be covered by antidumping and countervailing duty orders on glycine (Deer Park Glycine, LLC v. U.S., CIT # 23-00238).
The following lawsuit was recently filed at the Court of International Trade:
Importer MTD Products filed a complaint at the Court of International Trade June 5 claiming its spark-ignition reciprocating or rotary internal combustion piston engines from China were improperly denied Section 301 exclusions by CBP (MTD Products v. U.S., CIT # 22-00174).
A company that imports air fryers brought a complaint to the Court of International Trade on June 5, arguing that its fryer are not “cooking stoves, ranges or ovens” but rather fall under the relevant “other” category (Sensio Inc. v. U.S., CIT # 23-00152).
The Court of International Trade on June 5 amended a decision it issued last week rejecting the Commerce Department's use of adverse facts available against an exporter doing business as Supermel in the antidumping duty investigation on raw honey from Brazil (see 2405310043) (Apiario Diamante Comercial Exportadora Ltda. v. United States, CIT # 22-00185).
On remand, the International Trade Commission failed to comply with the court's order and cherry-picked evidence to maintain its previous ruling that fertilizer imports had injured local producers, a Moroccan phosphate fertilizer exporter said May 30 to the Court of International Trade (OCP v. U.S., CIT Consol. # 21-00219).