U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 Report to Congress, Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Enforcement Actions and Compliance Initiatives: FY 2017, has now been publicly released by the Department of Homeland Security. The report confirms that the antidumping and countervailing duty laws have become increasingly important for American industries, with antidumping and countervailing […]
Archives for November 2018
Court of International Trade Rejects Importer’s Efforts to Collaterally Challenge Application of China Countrywide Antidumping Duty Rate
In Northern Tool & Equipment Company, Inc. v. United States, an importer (Northern Tool) challenged U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) assessment of a 383.6 percent antidumping duty assessment rate on eight entries of hand trucks from the People’s Republic of China brought into the United States between December 2007 and June 2008. Northern Tool […]
Treating the Exploitation and Abuse of Workers as an Unfair Trade Practice
Earlier this month, President Trump issued a letter to Congress expressing the administration’s intent to revoke Mauritania’s beneficiary status for a trade preference program established under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (“AGOA”), due to Mauritania’s failure to make sufficient progress in protecting internationally recognized workers’ rights. AGOA, first enacted in 2000 and currently in […]