The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Oct. 17-23:
The U.S. Court of International Trade granted DOJ's motion for a one-week deadline extension to Nov. 4 in the Section 301 cases to file its response to the plaintiffs’ comments on the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative remand results, said an order Monday in docket 1:21-cv-52 at the U.S. Court of International Trade. Good cause exists for the one-week delay, said DOJ. Though “we have been working diligently” to complete the response by the original deadline, “several logistical challenges” make it impossible to do so, said the filing. The importance of the case requires that the government’s response “must undergo a heightened level of internal review, and this review process has taken longer than anticipated,” it said. Another extenuating factor is that one of the lead DOJ attorneys, Jamie Shookman, recently sustained an injury “that impacted her ability to work on our brief,” it said. Akin Gump attorneys for lead plaintiffs HMTX Industries and Jasco Products told DOJ they would not oppose the seven-day deadline extension if they could extend to Dec. 5 from Nov. 14 their own deadline for replying to the government to accommodate international travel and other court commitments, said DOJ. The court agreed to the new deadlines.
The Court of International Trade in an Oct. 24 order gave the U.S. a one-week deadline extension to Nov. 4 in the Section 301 cases to file its response to the plaintiffs’ comments on the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative remand results. The government argued in its motion for extension that good cause exists for the delay (In Re Section 301 Cases, CIT #21-00052).
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The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative will not initiate a Section 301 investigation on Mexican produce exports, it announced Oct. 23, at the deadline for the decision.
The Commerce Department properly hit antidumping duty respondent Shanghai Tainai Bearing with partial adverse facts available, saying Tainai should know how to collect factor of production information from its downstream suppliers, given that the agency was conducting the 33rd review of the AD order, the U.S. argued in an Oct. 20 reply brief at the Court of International Trade. The government said Commerce legally deducted Section 301 duties from Tainai's U.S. price and capped Section 301 duty payments (Shanghai Tainai Bearing Co. v. U.S., CIT Consol. #22-00038).
The U.S. trade representative should reject the Florida congressional delegation's Section 301 petition regarding Mexican produce imports, argued Iowa's two senators, as well as Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.
Although President Joe Biden criticized the Trump administration tariffs on Chinese imports during his campaign, and although his treasury secretary repeatedly said they contribute to inflation and some of them are harmful, trade lobbyists for UPS and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said the tariffs are largely here to stay.
CBP issued the following releases on commercial trade and related matters:
Although President Joe Biden criticized the Trump administration tariffs on Chinese imports during his campaign, and although his treasury secretary repeatedly said they contribute to inflation and some of them are harmful, trade lobbyists for UPS and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said the tariffs are largely here to stay.