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 […]
Schlumberger Technology Corporation is a leading oilfield services provider in the United States that emphasizes its “integrated pore-to-pipeline solutions for hydrocarbon recovery that optimize reservoir performance.” Schlumberger imports bauxite proppants from China that it combines with other materials to increase oil well performance by preventing fractures in rock formations from closing1.Schlumberger has been litigating the […]
In May 2015, all six commissioners of the U.S. International Trade Commission unanimously determined that the revocation of the antidumping duty order on imports of saccharin from China would not be likely to lead to the continuation or recurrence of material injury to the domestic saccharin industry within a reasonably foreseeable time. The Commission made […]
In late December, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) began to publish notices respecting initiation of investigations against importers who were alleged to have evaded antidumping or countervailing duties. These investigations are conducted pursuant to new statutory authority commonly referred to as the Enforce and Protect Act (EAPA). While the results of CBP’s informal […]