FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Mid Continent Steel & Wire, Inc. Commends Commerce Department for Preliminary Affirmative Determinations in Korea, Malaysia, Oman and Vietnam Antidumping Duty Investigations December 18, 2014 Contact: Adam H. Gordon, Esq. Picard, Kentz & Rowe, LLP 202.400.3112 agordon@pkrllp.com Washington, D.C. – Mid Continent Steel & Wire, Inc., the largest U.S. producer of steel […]
Archives for December 2014
Kahn Publishes in Georgetown Journal of International Law
PKR attorney Jordan Kahn has published an article in the most recent volume of the Georgetown Journal of International Law, entitled “2013 in Review: CIT Opinions Resolving Challenges to Commerce AD/CVD Decisions on Products Imported from NMEs.” The article is available at: http://www.law.georgetown.edu/academics/law-journals/gjil/recent/upload/zsx00115000057.PDF
D.C. Circuit Upholds Decision Limiting Relator Eligibility in False Claims Act Suits Alleging Antidumping Duty Evasion
Last week, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a district court’s of a False Claims Act (FCA) lawsuit alleging that several importers had falsely declared Chinese-origin pencils to be products of other countries in order to evade antidumping duties. The plaintiff in the suit, an anonymous relator who claimed to be a […]
CIA study finds arming rebel forces rarely works
A CIA study commissioned by the White House concluded that the Agency’s past efforts to arm rebel forces in foreign countries had rarely produced desired outcomes, according to the New York Times. Government officials familiar with the classified report explained that President Obama had asked for the CIA self-study as part of the government’s internal […]
Institute for Policy Studies fellow blasts investor-state arbitration in New York Times op-ed
In a recent op-ed for the New York Times, Manuel Perez-Rocha, an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, argues that prevailing mechanisms for the resolution of state-investor disputes are rigged against states. Arbitration mechanisms are particularly detrimental to poorer states, according to Perez-Rocha. Focusing on the arbitration currently under way between El Salvador […]