On March 7, 2013, three separate three-judge panels of the Federal Circuit conducted oral argument on important international trade cases. Union Steel v. United States is the latest in the long line of challenges to the “zeroing” methodology in which the Department of Commerce calculates antidumping duty (AD) dumping margins without offsetting sales above normal […]
CIT Rules in Enforcement Action on Softwood Lumber Agreement
In opinions issued in December 2012 (cit.uscourts.gov/SlipOpinions) and January 2013 (cit.uscourts.gov/SlipOpinions), the Court of International Trade issued important rulings in an action brought to enforce the 1996 Softwood Lumber Agreement. Even though the 1996 SLA expired in 2001, these decisions have continuing relevance for the current SLA, which entered into force in 2006. First, some […]
Surge of enforcement and surety-related cases filed at the U.S. Court of International Trade in the first half of 2011
Twelve new enforcement actions were filed at the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) in the first six months of 2011. The government is commendably increasing its efforts to investigate and prosecute duty evasion. These cases involve multiple circumvention schemes, such as mislabeling in Kenpo Jeans and Active Frontier Int’l where merchandise was identified as […]
U.S. Supreme Court Brief Filed in Zeroing Case
Picard Kentz & Rowe today filed a U.S. Supreme Court brief on behalf of the Southern Shrimp Alliance and the Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports as amici curiae (“friends of the court”). They ask the Court to take an appeal filed by U.S. steel companies challenging the Commerce Department’s authority to stop “zeroing” in antidumping investigations by offsetting dumped […]