As part of the International Trade Commission’s (“ITC”) statutorily-mandated sunset review process, Commissioners voted 5-1 on March 15 to continue existing antidumping duty orders on frozen warmwater shrimp from Brazil, China, India, Thailand, and Vietnam. Trade relief has been in place since 2005 in order to offset the unfairly low prices of shrimp imports from […]
Andrew W. Kentz recently served as an expert panelist at Georgetown University Law Center’s 2011 International Trade Update on March 4, 2011. Andrew discussed the Department of Commerce’s recent proposals to alter the administration of antidumping and countervailing duty laws, presenting his paper entitled “Changes in Dumping and Subsidy Methodology.”
Yesterday a WTO panel upheld the U.S. “special safeguard” tariffs on Chinese tires. Many will note that this is the first time a WTO body has upheld a U.S. “safeguard” measure. After the United States lost a string of safeguard cases at the WTO a decade or so ago, the temporary “safeguard” had largely receded […]
Andrew W. Kentz was recently appointed Treasurer and Executive Committee Member of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Andrew has been working with the Lawyers’ Committee for nearly a decade serving as Member of the Board of Directors. The main objective of the Lawyer’s Committee is to secure equal justice under law by […]
In recent testimony before Congress, Lisa Shames, Director, Natural Resources and Environment of the Government Accountability Office observed that 15 percent of the U.S. food supply was composed of food imported from other countries. While imported food constitutes a small minority of the overall food supply, Ms. Shames further noted that imports comprised 60 percent […]