The International Trade Commission failed to adequately consider "key market data" when reaching an affirmative critical circumstances determination in the injury proceeding on low speed personal transportation vehicles from China, importer Vexas, doing business as Atlas, said in an Oct. 14 complaint at the Court of International Trade (Vexas v. United States, CIT # 25-00206).

The Commerce Department erred in its selection of a benchmark to value a subsidized lease provided to countervailing duty respondent Kaptan Demir Celik Endustrisi ve Ticaret's affiliate, Nur Gemicilik, Kaptan argued in an Oct. 11 complaint at the Court of International Trade (Kaptan Demir Celik Endustrisi ve Ticaret v. United States, CIT # 25-00225).

In two complaints filed Oct. 10, petitioner The American Personal Transportation Vehicle Manufacturers Coalition challenged the antidumping duty investigation on Chinese-origin golf carts, saying the Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission should both have found critical circumstances with regard to an exporter (The American Personal Transportation Vehicle Manufacturers Coalition v. United States, CIT # 25-00203, 25-00204).

In an Oct. 14 complaint, domestic brake drum producer Webb Wheel Products argued that the Commerce Department used the wrong surrogate value for a mandatory respondent’s “recarburizing agent” in its antidumping duty investigation on brake drums from China (Webb Wheel Products v. United States, CIT # 25-00207).

Two trade associations -- the National Fisheries Institute and the Restaurant Law Center -- and 10 seafood importers challenged the National Marine Fisheries Service's comparability findings of 240 fisheries across 46 nations (see 2509020014), which will lead to an import ban on all seafood products from these fisheries effective Jan. 1, 2026, at the Court of International Trade (National Fisheries Institute v. United States, CIT # 25-00223).

The Court of International Trade's CM/ECF system will undergo maintenance Oct. 18 from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. EDT, the court announced. The court said the CM/ECF system will not be available during this time.

Challenging an affirmative antidumping duty determination regarding Chinese brake drums, an importer and exporter said Oct. 10 that the Commerce Department failed to properly value the sole mandatory respondent’s inland freight costs and scrap recycling process (Consolidated Metco v. United States, CIT # 25-00208).

The Commerce Department improperly attributed freight and marine insurance income to antidumping duty respondent Suncity Metals and Tubes during the 2022-23 administrative review of the AD order on Indian-origin welded stainless pressure pipe, the respondent argued in an Oct. 9 complaint at the Court of International Trade (Suncity Metals and Tubes v. United States, CIT # 25-00222).

In a complaint filed Oct. 8, exporter Tao Motor challenged the International Trade Commission’s affirmative injury and critical circumstances findings regarding golf carts from China. It said that imposing the Commerce Department’s recently calculated antidumping duty and countervailing duty rates would end all importation of Chinese-origin golf carts into the U.S. (Tao Motor v. United States, CIT # 25-00199).

Mediation in a customs suit at the Court of International Trade on CBP's detention of importer Inspired Ventures' tire entries didn't result in a settlement, Judge Claire Kelly said in a report of mediation filed on Oct. 9 (Inspired Ventures v. United States, CIT # 24-00062).