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) […]
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 […]
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 […]