Trade-Related Court Cases Filed Nov. 22-28

November 30, 2021 by Jacob Kopnick|Penalties and Courts

The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the week of Nov. 22-28:

Evolutions Flooring, Inc. and Struxtur, Inc., challenging the Commerce Department's final results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on multilayered wood flooring from China, covering entries in 2018. #21-00591. Filed Nov. 23.

Ikadan System USA, Inc. and Gaosai Metal Product Co., Ltd., challenging CBP's final determination as to evasion of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on steel grating from China. #21-00592. Filed Nov. 23.

Risen Energy Co., Ltd., challenging the Commerce Department's final results in the administrative review of the antidumping order on crystaline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into modules, from China, covering entries in 2018-2019. #21-00594. Filed Nov. 24.

American Manufacturers of Multilayered Wood Flooring, challenging Commerce's final results of the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on multilayered wood flooring from China, covering entries in 2018-2019. #21-00595. Filed Nov. 24.

American Manufacturers of Multilayered Wood Flooring, challenging Commerce's final results of the administrative review of the countervailing duty order on multilayered wood flooring from China, covering entries in 2018. #21-00596. Filed Nov. 24.

SXP Schulz Xtruded Products LLC, challenging CBP's denial of its protest claiming its steel bars of Harmonized Tariff Schedule subheading 7218.99.00.45 were improperly denied a granted exclusion from Section 232 steel and aluminum tariffs. #21-00597. Filed Nov. 24.

Tube Investments of India Ltd., challenging the Commerce Department's final results in the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain cold-drawn mechanical tubing of carbon and alloy steel from India, covering entries in 2019-2020. #21-00598. Filed Nov. 24.

Dunhua City Jisen Wood Industry Co., Ltd. and Dalian Shumaike Floor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., challenging Commerce's final results in the administrative review of the antidumping duty order on multilayered wood flooring from China. #21-00599. Filed Nov. 26.

Baroque Timber Industries (Zhongshan) Co., Ltd. and Riverside Plywood Corporation, challenging the Commerce Department's final results of the administrative review of the countervailing duty order on multilayered wood flooring from China, covering entries in 2018. #21-00600. Filed Nov. 26.

Fine Furniture (Shanghai) Limited and Double F Limited, challenging Commerce's final results in the administrative review of the countervailing duty order on multilayered wood flooring from China, covering entries in 2018. #21-00601. Filed Nov. 26.

Zhejiang Dadongwu GreenHome Wood Co., Ltd., challenging Commerce's final results in the administrative review of the countervailing duty order on multilayered wood flooring from China, covering entries in 2018. #21-00602. Filed Nov. 26.

Another two lawsuits were filed at the CIT during the week of Nov. 22-28 to challenge lists 3 and 4A Section 301 tariffs on products from China (see 2009220029). For a full list, see the Pacer database.

Appeals of CIT Decisions

The following appeals of Court of International Trade decisions were filed at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit during the week of Nov. 22-28:

The U.S. and Wheatland Tube Company, challenging a Sept. 17 CIT decision sustaining the Commerce Department's remand results in the 2017-2018 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on circular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Thailand. #22-1172, #22-1174. Filed Nov. 22.

The U.S. and Wheatland Tube Company, challenging a Sept. 17 CIT decision sustaining the Commerce Department's remand results in the 2016-2017 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on circular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Thailand. #22-1173, #22-1175. Filed Nov. 22.

Full Member Subgroup of the American Institute of Steel Construction, LLC, challenging a Sept. 22 CIT decision sustaining the International Trade Commission's final negative injury determination in the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of fabricated structural steel from Canada, China and Mexico. #22-1176. Filed Nov. 23.

LDC Argentina S.A., challenging a Sept. 21 CIT upholding of Commerce's stance that it had sufficient evidence in its changed circumstances review to support the finding that the situation had not changed regarding countervailable subsidies for Argentina's biodiesel industry. #22-1189. Filed Nov. 24.

Government of Argentina, challenging a Sept. 21 CIT upholding of Commerce's stance that it had sufficient evidence in its changed circumstances review to support the finding that the situation had not changed regarding countervailable subsidies for Argentina's biodiesel industry. #22-1190. Filed Nov. 24.