Importer Allied Stone agreed to pay $12.4 million to settle claims that it violated the False Claims Act by evading antidumping duties and countervailing duties on quartz surface products from China, DOJ announced. The FCA case was initially filed by Melinda Hemphill, a whistleblower in the case, who will receive a $2,170,875 cut of the settlement.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Aug. 21 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Court of International Trade Judge Claire Kelly denied Aug. 20 a motion by various exporters to stay their case challenging antidumping duty and countervailing duty reviews on Chinese-origin aluminum foil (Jiangsu Dingsheng New Materials Joint-Stock Co. v. United States, CIT # 24-00228).
Domestic petitioner Catfish Farmers of America brought another case Aug. 19 against an administrative review of the antidumping duty order on frozen fish fillets from Vietnam -- this time, the review for the 2022-23 period (Catfish Farmers of America v. United States, CIT # 25-00156).
CBP failed to provide "substantial evidence" that importer Kana Energy Services Inc. imported Chinese-origin oil country tubular goods and arbitrarily applied adverse inferences in an antidumping duty and countervailing duty evasion determination in an Enforce and Protect Act case on OCTG from Thailand, the importer told the Court of International Trade in an Aug. 14 complaint (Kana Energy Services v. United States, CIT # 25-00186).
Over opposition from the government, which said that the Court of International Trade didn't have the power to extend complaint deadlines, the trade court let honey exporters led by Ban Me Thout Honeybee file their complaint out of time in an order Aug. 15. The court said it would follow up its order with its reasoning in a later filing.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Aug. 20 on AD/CVD proceedings:
Court of International Trade Judge Claire Kelly again remanded the Commerce Department’s de facto specificity finding regarding South Korea’s below-cost provision of off-peak electricity in a countervailing duty administrative review, saying the department still hasn’t rationally explained why it grouped three unrelated industries and found that they, together, disproportionately received the subsidy.
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The Court of International Trade affirmed Aug. 11 the Commerce Department’s decision to, in an antidumping duty administrative review, reject Chinese solar cell exporter Yingli China’s separate rate application even though its U.S. sales were conducted through an affiliate, Yingli Green Energy Americas, with separate ownership.