Earlier this month, President Trump issued a letter to Congress expressing the administration’s intent to revoke Mauritania’s beneficiary status for a trade preference program established under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (“AGOA”), due to Mauritania’s failure to make sufficient progress in protecting internationally recognized workers’ rights. AGOA, first enacted in 2000 and currently in […]
Doing Business in China: Third-Party Intermediary Payments Can Get a Company in Trouble under Anti-Corruption Laws
When companies enter into China, third-party partners and/or agents, such as consultants, distributors and brokers, are most often sought out and relied upon to establish the necessary local footholds and to navigate cultural and business barriers encountered in doing business there. Third-party agents, with ample local resources, are able to provide companies with fast and […]
Federal Circuit Affirms a 112.81% Antidumping Duty Rate Assigned to a Chinese Exporter that Provided False and Inaccurate Information to Commerce
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“Federal Circuit”) today affirmed the U.S. Court of International Trade (“CIT”)’s decisions that the U.S. Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) had properly assigned a 112.81% antidumping duty rate to Hilltop International (“Hilltop”) in the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 administrative reviews of the antidumping duty order on frozen warmwater […]
Court of International Trade Rejects CBP’s Bond Sufficiency Determinations for Certain Entries of Magnesia Carbon Bricks
Domestic industries considering whether to utilize the trade remedy laws must confront an essential question up front: even if the petition results in the imposition of a trade remedy, will the measure be enforceable? Although enforcement risks differ substantially depending on product, the use of fraud to evade and circumvent antidumping duty and/or countervailing duty […]
Federal Circuit Affirms Surety Liability for Antidumping Duties on Crawfish from China
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit last week affirmed the U.S. Court of International Trade’s finding that American Home Assurance Company (AHAC) is liable for antidumping duties under a bond issued for crawfish tail meat imported from China in 2001. The crawfish entered without any declared antidumping duty liability because the exporter was a […]
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