By Zachary Walker The federal government’s fiscal year (FY) 2021 concluded on September 30, 2021. Over the course of FY 2021, a total of 34 antidumping and countervailing duty petitions were filed with the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission. This number is a substantial decrease from the previous fiscal year (i.e., FY 2020) […]
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 […]
ITC Revives Important Trade Remedy Tool for New U.S. Industries Facing Unfair Import Competition
On September 16, 2019, the United States International Trade Commission found in a vote of 3-0 that the U.S. stainless steel keg industry was materially retarded by imports of kegs from Mexico, resulting in an 18.48% duty on Mexican kegs. This vote is the first of two which will conclude a year-long investigation into unfair […]
CIT Affirms Commerce’s Broad Discretion in Determining Whether a Domestic Company May Request an Administrative Review
On February 3, 2017, the U.S. Court of International Trade (“CIT”) upheld the U.S. Department of Commerce’s (“Commerce”) finding that Dixon Ticonderoga Company (“Dixon”), as a U.S. producer of cased pencils, was entitled to request an administrative review of the entries of pencil imports shipped to the United States by a Chinese exporter, Shandong Rongxin […]