U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 Report to Congress, Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Enforcement Actions and Compliance Initiatives: FY 2017, has now been publicly released by the Department of Homeland Security. The report confirms that the antidumping and countervailing duty laws have become increasingly important for American industries, with antidumping and countervailing […]
Court of International Trade Rejects Importer’s Efforts to Collaterally Challenge Application of China Countrywide Antidumping Duty Rate
In Northern Tool & Equipment Company, Inc. v. United States, an importer (Northern Tool) challenged U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) assessment of a 383.6 percent antidumping duty assessment rate on eight entries of hand trucks from the People’s Republic of China brought into the United States between December 2007 and June 2008. Northern Tool […]
CBP’s Fiscal Year 2015 Report Shows Large Increase in Uncollected Duties; Amount of Uncollected Duties Likely Increased Even More Substantially in Fiscal Year 2016
After U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) released a limited, heavily edited “public version” of its Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Enforcement Actions and Compliance Initiatives report to Congress for fiscal year 2015 in January of this year, the Department of Homeland Security made public the entire report without redaction. The Department of Homeland Security’s website […]
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 […]
Customs Penalty Litigation Demonstrates How Evasion of Antidumping Duties Fundamentally Undermines Trade Remedy Law
In May 2015, all six commissioners of the U.S. International Trade Commission unanimously determined that the revocation of the antidumping duty order on imports of saccharin from China would not be likely to lead to the continuation or recurrence of material injury to the domestic saccharin industry within a reasonably foreseeable time. The Commission made […]
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