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 […]
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 […]
Congress Requires CBP to Issue a Detailed Public Report of Its Antidumping/Countervailing Duty Collection Efforts; CBP’s Ignoring Congress
In an October 2019 report, Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Collection of Outstanding Claims, prepared for Congress by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”), the agency explained that at the close of fiscal year 2019 there were 64,761 open bills for antidumping and countervailing duties, with a total amount outstanding of US$4.472 billion. These figures represented […]
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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