On behalf of the Ad Hoc Shrimp Trade Action Committee (“AHSTAC”), an association of domestic producers of warmwater shrimp, PKR today filed a brief at the U.S. Court of International Trade defending the U.S. Department of Commerce in the seventh administrative review of the antidumping duty order on shrimp from India. Commerce found that an Indian […]
China Challenges EU Compliance With WTO Fasteners Ruling
The People’s Republic of China this week requested consultations with the European Union to resolve a longstanding trade dispute over the assessment of antidumping duties on Chinese iron and steel fasteners. According to China, the EU has not complied with the July 2011 WTO Appellate Body (AB) ruling that found the EU to have violated its […]
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 […]
Judge Wallach Elevated to the Federal Circuit
Judge Evan J. Wallach was two days ago unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as a Circuit Judge at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“CAFC”) in Washington, DC. For the previous sixteen years he presided at the U.S. Court of International Trade (“CIT”) in New York City. Although CIT […]