By Colin Milner and Patrick O’Connor Antidumping (AD) and Countervailing duty (CVD) orders serve as a vital tool for U.S. domestic industries to ensure a fair market by levying import duties on unfairly traded merchandise. Newly released U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reports indicate that cases brought by Picard Kentz & Rowe LLP (PKR) […]
Importer Files Complaint at U.S. Court of International Trade Challenging CBP’s Decision to Exclude Goods Produced With Forced Labor
A complaint filed recently with the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) by Virtus Nutrition LLC challenges CBP’s decision to exclude more than $2 million of palm oil and palm oil products exported from Malaysia. Challenges to decisions by CBP to exclude merchandise under Section 307 of the Tariff Act are infrequent with the last […]
Non-Resident Importers and Inadequate Bonding Leave Duties Unpaid, Harming the Public Fisc
The antidumping (AD) order on fresh garlic from China was issued in 1994. Since that order issued, hundreds of millions of dollars of resulting AD duties owed to the federal government have gone unpaid. Indeed, as of fiscal year 2017 – the last year for which detailed information was made public – uncollected AD duties […]
U.S. Industries Continue to Combat Unfairly Traded Imports in Record Number of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Petitions
The federal government’s fiscal year (FY) 2020 concluded on September 30, 2020. Over the course of FY 2020, 114 antidumping and countervailing duty petitions were filed with the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission. These petitions were filed on behalf of 26 separate industries and cover products ranging from cigarettes to […]
Importers Team Up to Undercut Regulations Designed to Improve Enforcement of U.S. Trade Remedy Laws
This August, the Department of Commerce published in the Federal Register notice of proposed Regulations To Improve Administration and Enforcement of Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws. The changes proposed by Commerce to the AD/CVD regulations represent the largest such amendment to the agency’s regulations in twenty years. These proposed modifications of Commerce’s existing AD/CVD regulations […]
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