The Court of International Trade today issued a remand for the Commerce Department to revisit its selection of the Chinese companies used to set the antidumping duty rates in the fourth administrative review of that order. Picard Kentz & Rowe brought the case on behalf of the Ad Hoc Shrimp Trade Action Committee (“AHSTAC”), an association of […]
Surge of enforcement and surety-related cases filed at the U.S. Court of International Trade in the first half of 2011
Twelve new enforcement actions were filed at the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) in the first six months of 2011. The government is commendably increasing its efforts to investigate and prosecute duty evasion. These cases involve multiple circumvention schemes, such as mislabeling in Kenpo Jeans and Active Frontier Int’l where merchandise was identified as […]
U.S. Supreme Court Brief Filed in Zeroing Case
Picard Kentz & Rowe today filed a U.S. Supreme Court brief on behalf of the Southern Shrimp Alliance and the Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports as amici curiae (“friends of the court”). They ask the Court to take an appeal filed by U.S. steel companies challenging the Commerce Department’s authority to stop “zeroing” in antidumping investigations by offsetting dumped […]
The International Trade Commission Votes Affirmatively to Continue Antidumping Orders on Frozen Warmwater Shrimp
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 […]
Kentz Discusses Changes in Dumping and Subsidy Methodology at Georgetown University’s 2011 International Trade Update
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.”