Trade-Related Court Cases Filed Oct. 16-22

October 24, 2023 by Jacob Kopnick|Penalties and Courts

The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Oct. 16-22:

LE Commodities, LLC, challenging the Commerce Department's denial of its Section 232 steel and aluminum tariff exclusion requests. #23-00220. Filed Oct. 16.

BYD (H.K.) Co., Ltd., challenging Commerce's final determination that crystaline silicon photovoltaic cells that are being exported from Cambodia to the U.S. are circumventing the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on solar cells from China. #23-00221. Filed Oct. 17.

Canadian Solar International Limited and Canadian Solar Manufacturing (Thailand) Co., Ltd., challenging Commerce's final affirmative determination of circumvention of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on crystaline silicon photovoltaic cells from China by way of Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. #23-00222. Filed Oct. 20.

Auxin Solar Inc., challenging Commerce's final affirmative determination of circumvention of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on crystaline silicon photovoltaic cells from China by way of Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. #23-00223, -00224, -00225 and -00226. Filed Oct. 20.

Trina Solar Science & Technology (Thailand) Ltd., challenging Commerce's final affirmative determination of circumvention of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on crystaline silicon photovoltaic cells from China by way of Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. #23-00227. Filed Oct. 20.

Trina Solar (Vietnam) Science & Technology Co., Ltd.; Trina Solar Energy Development Company Limited; and Trina Solar Co., Ltd., challenging Commerce's final affirmative determination of circumvention of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on crystaline silicon photovoltaic cells from China by way of Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. #23-00228, -00229. Filed Oct. 20.

Appeals of CIT Decisions

No appeals of Court of International Trade decisions were filed at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit during the week of Oct. 16-22.