Court Extends Section 301 Liquidation Injunction, Repository Deadline
The Court of International Trade extended to Oct. 4 from Sept. 2 the preliminary injunction preventing the liquidation of unliquidated customs entries with Section 301 lists 3 or 4A tariff exposure, said an order signed late Aug. 16 by Judges Claire Kelly and Jennifer Choe-Groves. The judges also extended to Sept. 3 from Aug. 20 the deadline for CBP to create a repository for the subject customs entries. It’s the court's third deadline extension since Kelly and Choe-Groves ordered CBP to establish the repository in a July 6 preliminary injunction order.
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Earlier this month the court allowed for an extension to allow the parties to figure out details for how a repository would work (see 2108020029). An Aug. 9 joint status report found the plaintiffs’ steering committee and the Department of Justice reaching agreement on some previously contested terms for setting up the repository but still far apart on others.