The government has “inexcusably failed to provide substantive responses and/or produce any documents whatsoever,” gun manufacturer Glock said in a June 20 motion asking the Court of International Trade to compel the U.S. to produce the information the importer sought in its first round of discovery (Glock v. U.S., CIT # 23-00046).
An importer on June 20 accused CBP of placing “wholly unrelated” lab tests on the record to support an evasion decision and illegally refusing to consider the scope ruling that importer sought from the Commerce Department. As a result, it said, the CBP’s final determination was unlawful (Vanguard Trading Co. v. U.S., CIT # 23-00253).
Exporter Saha Thai Steel Pipe Public Co. on June 21 petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit for either a panel or en banc rehearing of its decision to include dual-stenciled pipe in the scope of the antidumping duty order on circular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Thailand (see 2405150027) (Saha Thai Steel Pipe Public Co. v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 22-2181).
The Court of International Trade in a June 13 decision made public June 24 said the Commerce Department properly found that Aussie exporter BlueScope Steel (AIS) didn't reimburse its affiliated importer BlueScope Steel Americas (BSA) for antidumping duties. Sustaining the second review of the AD order on hot-rolled steel flat products from Australia, Judge Richard Eaton said that Commerce also properly declined to make a "standalone deduction" from the constructed export price for "profit resulting from the further manufacture of the steel in the United States."
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Although the Court of International Trade rejected the International Trade Commission’s analysis in its affirmative injury determination regarding boxed mattresses from various Asian countries as “mathematical obfuscation and statistical chicanery,” it didn’t remand like it should have, an exporter told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on June 21 (CVB, Inc. v. U.S., Fed. Cir. # 24-1504).
The Court of International Trade, in a June 13 decision made public June 24, sustained the Commerce Department's second review of the antidumping duty order on hot-rolled steel from Australia. Judge Richard Eaton said Commerce found that exporter BlueScope Steel (AIS) didn't reimburse its affiliated U.S. importer, BlueScope Steel Americas, for antidumping duties, heavily basing this conclusion on an identical U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decision issued in April. Eaton also said Commerce properly declined to make an additional deduction for the constructed export price profit.
On June 17, a convicted smuggler of dangerously bright vehicle headlights asked the Court of International Trade, on behalf of both himself and the U.S., for another three-month extension to continue negotiating the terms of a stipulated judgment in a customs penalty case (U.S. v. Chu-Chiang "Kevin" Ho, CIT # 19-00102).
The Court of International Trade on June 18 issued an order regarding the bench trial, set for Oct. 21, in a customs case brought by importer Cozy Comfort Co. on its wearable blanket, the Comfy. To prepare for the trial, Judge Stephen Vaden set a pretrial conference for Sept. 19 and told the parties to conduct a "good faith attempt to settle this matter and avoid trial" (Cozy Comfort Co. v. U.S., CIT # 22-00173).
The Commerce Department ignored the rulings in past cases when it reached de facto and de jure specificity findings regarding two broadly used Korean government programs, a Korean steel exporter said in a motion for judgment June 17 (POSCO v. U.S., CIT # 24-00006).