The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Jan. 10-16:
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 following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Dec. 27 - Jan. 2:
Auto parts and tools exported to Canada for use at auto races then re-imported don't qualify for duty-free treatment under a U.S. goods returned tariff provision for "tools of the trade," said the Court of International Trade in a Dec. 30 opinion. Though Porsche Motorsport North America contended that the goods were exported to support race teams, CIT Judge Stephen Vaden found that the auto parts and tools were exported to generate sales to race teams rather than for a professional purpose, as required under subheading 9801.00.8500.
CBP will suspend liquidation for entries of solar cells subject to Section 201 safeguard duties over the past 10-15 months, following to a Court of International Trade decision that invalidated a Trump-era increase in safeguard duty rates on solar cells and the withdrawal of an exemption for bifacial cells (see 2111170038), CBP said in a CSMS message Dec. 28.
Goodluck India Limited is again subject to antidumping duties on cold-drawn mechanical tubing from India (A-533-873), after the Commerce Department again amended its antidumping duty order to reinstate the company following a recent U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decision. Effective Sept. 10, 2021, subject merchandise from Goodluck will be subject to the 33.7% adjusted AD duty cash deposit rate originally assigned to it in the 2018 AD duty order (see 1806130068).
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Dec. 20-26:
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Dec. 13-19:
The Commerce Department found that two companies' door thresholds qualify for the finished merchandise exclusion to the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on aluminum extrusions from China, in a pair of remand results at the Court of International Trade, reversing its position on the issue under protest. The remand results came after a court opinion that did not agree with Commerce's original holding that the door thresholds from Worldwide Door Components and Columbia Aluminum Products were subassemblies that required further incorporation into a larger downstream product (Worldwide Door Components, Inc. v. United States, CIT #19-00012) (Columbia Aluminum Products, LLC v. United States, CIT # 19-00013).
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Dec. 6-12:
The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Nov. 29 - Dec. 5: