The Court of International Trade today issued a remand for the Commerce Department to reconsider the labor rate used to calculate duties in the fifth administrative review of the antidumping duty order on shrimp from Vietnam. PKR brought the case on behalf of the Ad Hoc Shrimp Trade Action Committee, an association of domestic producers of […]
Archives for July 2013
Federal Circuit affirms Almond Bros. and Union Steel – after years of unnecessary uncertainty
Earlier this month, the Federal Circuit in Almond Bros. v. United States (Fed. Cir. July 1, 2013) dismissed is a challenge to the 2006 Softwood Lumber Agreement term that Canada distribute funds to members of a domestic softwood lumber industry group brought by lumber companies that were not members. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative […]
Kerry: tilting at peace talks, or redefining America’s role?
In the Financial Times, columnist Philip Stephens praises US Secretary of State John Kerry’s efforts in the service of the Israel-Palestine peace process, despite seemingly overwhelming odds against him. Listing a litany of recent failures in US and European foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa, Stephens imagines how much worse things might be […]
Crocker: Keep Syrian conflict contained and in context
Ambassador Ryan Crocker, who has served in Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq, says that the current war between Bashar al-Assad’s regime and an array of opposition factions should be understood in the context of a three-decade-long regional conflict, rather than that of the “Arab Spring.” He also argues that the call for America to “do something” […]
CIT Affirms Commerce’s Application of AFA to Chinese Shrimp Exporter
The Court of International Trade yesterday issued an opinion in a challenge to the final results of the 2009-10 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on shrimp from China. The appeal was brought in 2010 by an association of domestic shrimp producers, the Ad Hoc Shrimp Trade Action Committee (AHSTAC). Through PKR, AHSTAC successfully challenged […]