Last week, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) overturned the Court of International Trade (CIT) in a 19 U.S.C. § 1592 enforcement action, Trek Leather, Inc. v. United States. Trek in 2004 imported suits without disclosing the value of its U.S.-made fabric (“assists”), resulting in unpaid duties. The CIT in 2011 found […]
Archives for August 2013
Is Egypt softening stance toward Ethiopia’s mega-dam?
After months of heightened tensions and exchanges of occasionally bellicose rhetoric between Egypt and Ethiopia over the latter’s plan to build a massive hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile, the diplomatic row between two of Africa’s most powerful states might be cooling. Egypt’s minister for water resources and irrigation, Dr. Muhammad ‘Abd al-Mutalib, told press […]