The International Trade Commission erred in finding that the U.S. industry wasn't materially injured by solar cell imports from Thailand and Cambodia, the American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing Trade Committee argued in an Aug. 22 complaint at the Court of International Trade (American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing Trade Committee v. United States, CIT # 25-00163).
The Commerce Department on remand at the Court of International Trade deselected exporter Shandong Linglong Tyre as a mandatory respondent in the 2016-17 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on passenger vehicle and light truck tires from China. The agency then granted Linglong separate rate status in the review, assigning the company a 41.36% AD rate (YC Rubber Co. (North America) v. United States, CIT Consol. # 19-00069).
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's failure to investigate and attribute subsidies received by respondent Antiqa Minerals' cross-owned affiliates and their suppliers in a countervailing duty investigation was unlawful, petitioner The Coalition for Fair Trade in Ceramic Tile argued in an Aug. 15 complaint at the Court of International Trade. Challenging the CVD investigation on ceramic tile from India, the coalition said Commerce's cross-ownership analysis of Antiqa was unsupported by substantial evidence (The Coalition for Fair Trade in Ceramic Tile v. United States, CIT # 25-00152).
Four importers recently dismissed their cases at the Court of International Trade regarding President Donald Trump's decision from his first administration to revoke a Section 201 tariff exclusion for bifacial solar panels. The importers are Shining Solutions, Light & Hope Energy, JinkoSolar (U.S.) and Longi Solar Technology (U.S.) (Shining Solutions v. U.S., CIT # 22-00301) (Light & Hope Energy v. U.S., CIT # 22-00303) (JinkoSolar (U.S.) v. U.S., CIT # 22-00241) (Longi Solar Technology (U.S.) v. U.S., CIT # 22-00212).
The Commerce Department properly relied on Maersk data as the surrogate value for ocean freight and found that certain fabricated steel components used by respondent Zhejiang Dingli Machinery shouldn't be valued using data under Harmonized System subheadings covering "primary or raw steel products," petitioner Coalition of American Manufacturers of Mobile Access Equipment argued. Submitting remand comments to the Court of International Trade on Aug. 11, the coalition urged the court to accept the agency's remand results in the antidumping duty investigation on mobile access equipment from China (Coalition of American Manufacturers of Mobile Access Equipment v. United States, CIT Consol. # 22-00152).
Exporters Maquilacero and Tecnicas de Fluidos on Aug. 13 opened a five-count case against the 2022-23 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from Mexico. The companies challenged the Commerce Department's findings that products made by Tecnicas from light-walled rectangular tubing are within the scope of the order and the agency's decision to collapse Maquilacero and Tecnicas (Maquilacero S.A. de C.V. v. United States, CIT # 25-00176).
The International Trade Commission urges an approach to the redaction of business proprietary information that "the law forbids," Alex Moss, executive director of the Public Interest Patent Law Institute, said in an Aug. 13 amicus brief at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in a case on the commission's redaction policy. Moss said the ITC unlawfully asks the court to "redact judicial records at its request without requiring any justification" (In Re United States, Fed. Cir. #s 24-1566, 25-127).
Exporters Fine Furniture (Shanghai) and Double F Limited supported the Commerce Department's remand results in their case against the 2018 countervailing duty administrative review on multilayered wood flooring from China (Evolutions Flooring v. United States, CIT Consol. #21-00591).
Exporters led by International Greenhouse Produce and Asociacion Mexicana de Horticultura Protegida on Aug. 13 dropped their lawsuits involving a 2019 agreement suspending the antidumping duty order on fresh tomatoes from Mexico. The exporters dropped their cases following the Commerce Department's announcement in April that it withdrew from the agreement (see 2504150057) (International Greenhouse Produce v. U.S., CIT # 23-00093) (Asociacion Mexicana de Horticultura Protegida v. U.S., CIT # 20-00042).