International Trade Today is providing readers with some of the top stories for June 22-26 in case they were missed.
Court of International Trade
The United States Court of International Trade is a federal court which has national jurisdiction over civil actions regarding the customs and international trade laws of the United States. The Court was established under Article III of the Constitution by the Customs Courts Act of 1980. The Court consists of nine judges appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate and is located in New York City. The Court has jurisdiction throughout the United States and has exclusive jurisdictional authority to decide civil action pertaining to international trade against the United States or entities representing the United States.
The Commerce Department will decrease antidumping duty cash deposit rates in effect for four exporters of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into modules, from China (A-570-979), implementing a recent Court of International Trade decision that ordered Commerce to recalculate rates set in an administrative review completed in 2017 (see 1708240027), it said. As a result of its recalculation, AD duty cash deposit rates for Jiawei Solarchina Co. Ltd., Ningbo ETDZ Holdings, Ltd., Star Power International Limited, and Toenergy Technology Hangzhou Co., Ltd., will fall to 3.19% (from 7.82%). The new rate will apply to subject merchandise entered on or after June 25, 2020.
The Commerce Department will reconsider its denial of Section 232 exclusions for an importer of steel pipe, after the Court of International Trade on June 25 granted the government’s request to be allowed to reopen and add to the administrative record Commerce had previously presented the court and revisit its decision.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of June 15-21:
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of June 8-14:
In an apparent effort to get past a Court of International Trade injunction that bars the agency from ending a safeguard duty exemption for bifacial solar panels, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is pulling back its original attempt to end the exemption. The agency issued notice that it is rescinding its “withdrawal notice” from October 2019 that had reimposed safeguard duties on solar bifacial panels before it was blocked by the court.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of June 1-7:
Solar roof mountings made from extruded aluminum parts and steel fasteners do not qualify for the “finished merchandise” exemption from antidumping and countervailing duties on aluminum extrusions from China (A-570-967/C-570-968), the Commerce Department said in a recent scope ruling that marks the agency’s first application of a new definition for the exemption born from years of litigation on the subject.
The Court of International Trade on June 2 denied a bid by two nail importers for a preliminary injunction barring the government from collecting Section 232 tariffs on their steel “derivatives” imports. J. Conrad and Metropolitan Staple did not show they would be irreparably harmed if tariff collections proceed, so they didn’t meet at least one of four factors required for the court to issue a preliminary injunction, CIT said.
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of May 25-31: