Following its investigation of the effects of steel imports on national security, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (Commerce) recommended that the Administration take action to limit those imports such that, when combined with “good management,” it would “enable U.S. steel mills to operate at 80 percent or more of their […]
The Enforce and Protect Act of 2015, Section 421 (EAPA) established an administrative process through which trade-affected domestic industries could petition U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to take action against unfairly traded imports that were entered into the United States so as to fraudulently evade antidumping and/or countervailing duties. Under the legislation, EAPA proceedings […]
On August 17th, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) made public several documents related to investigations undertaken under the Enforce and Protect Act of 2015, Section 421 (EAPA). The public release of documents was accompanied by a press release heralding the agency’s exercise of authority to launch multiple investigations of illegal Chinese imports. The substance […]
After U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) released a limited, heavily edited “public version” of its Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Enforcement Actions and Compliance Initiatives report to Congress for fiscal year 2015 in January of this year, the Department of Homeland Security made public the entire report without redaction. The Department of Homeland Security’s website […]
On February 3, 2017, the U.S. Court of International Trade (“CIT”) upheld the U.S. Department of Commerce’s (“Commerce”) finding that Dixon Ticonderoga Company (“Dixon”), as a U.S. producer of cased pencils, was entitled to request an administrative review of the entries of pencil imports shipped to the United States by a Chinese exporter, Shandong Rongxin […]