When the American Manufacturers of Multilayered Wood Flooring filed an appeal at the U.S. Court of International Trade challenging the final results of a U.S. Department of Commerce antidumping administrative review, the case was docketed under the number 1:20-cv-3948. It was the final lawsuit filed in 2020 and capped off a remarkable year at the […]
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 […]
Using AD and CVD Laws to Address Unfair Labor Practices
By: Lisa W. Wang and Sophia J.C. Lin Recent debate about labor standards in the domestic legal systems of our trading partners have focused on labor commitments in bilateral and multilateral treaties, such as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (“USMCA”). Such commitments, although important mechanisms for change in a country’s labor laws, have proven difficult to enforce […]
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