Trade-Related Court Cases Filed Sept. 9-22

September 24, 2024 by Jacob Kopnick|Penalties and Courts

The following lawsuits were filed at the Court of International Trade during the weeks of Sept. 9-15 and 16-22:

United States, challenging Repwire, LLC, Jose Pigna and American Alternative Insurance Corp., for failing to pay customs duties on aluminum wire from China. # 24-00173. Filed Sept. 10.

GameChange Solar Corp., challenging the Commerce Department's final scope ruling finding that certain off-grid solar charging modules imported by GameChange are within the scope of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells, whether or not assembled into modules (solar cells) from China. # 24-00174. Filed Sept. 12.

Houston Shutters LLC, challenging the Commerce Department's decision not to initiate a changed circumstances review seeking to exclude wood shutter components from the scope of the antidumping and countervailing duty orders on wood moldings and millwork products from China. # 24-00175. Filed Sept. 16.

BGH Edelstahl Siegen GmbH, challenging Commerce's final results of the review of the antidumping duty order on forged steel fluid end blocks from Germany, covering entries in 2022. # 24-00176. Filed Sept. 16.

Leapfrog Product Development LLC, challenging CBP's denial of its protest claiming its consumer goods were assessed double the normal duty amount due to the transport vessel being re-routed. # 24-00177. Filed Sept. 18.

POSCO International America Corporation, challenging CBP's denial of its protest claiming the agency improperly assessed AD/CVD on its corrosion-resistant steel products of Harmonized Tariff Schedule subheadings 7212.20.0000 and 7210.49.0091 using the "as entered" estimated cash deposit rates. # 24-00178. Filed Sept. 20.

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 weeks of Sept. 9-15 and 16-22:

International Rights Advocates, appealing an August CIT decision dismissing its action to compel CBP to issue a decision on its petition for a withhold release order on cocoa imported through forced child labor from the Ivory Coast, for lack of standing. # 24-2316. Opened Sept. 13.