Negotiation of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, the US-EU free trade agreement, is back on track! After completing an ambitious first round of negotiations in July, the United States was forced to cancel the second round of negotiations scheduled for October due to the shutdown of the U.S. government. Today, however, the Office of […]
Federal Circuit affirms Almond Bros. and Union Steel – after years of unnecessary uncertainty
Earlier this month, the Federal Circuit in Almond Bros. v. United States (Fed. Cir. July 1, 2013) dismissed is a challenge to the 2006 Softwood Lumber Agreement term that Canada distribute funds to members of a domestic softwood lumber industry group brought by lumber companies that were not members. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative […]
Federal Circuit Hears Trio of Trade Cases
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 […]