The Commerce Department unlawfully relied on the Cohen's d test and incorrectly applied partial adverse facts to Indian exporter Garg Tube on remand in an antidumping duty case on welded carbon steel standard pipes and tubes from India, Garg said in a July 31 motion for judgment at the Court of International Trade (Garg Tube Export v. U.S., CIT # 21-00169).
Ben Perkins
Ben Perkins, Assistant Editor, is a reporter with International Trade Today and its sister publications, Trade Law Daily and Export Compliance Daily, where he covers sanctions, court rulings, and other international trade issues. He previously worked as a trade analyst for a Washington D.C. advisory firm. Ben holds a B.A. in English from the University of New Hampshire and an M.A. in International Relations from American University. Ben joined the staff of Warren Communications News in 2022.
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Aug. 3 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
The Commerce Department and the International Trade Commission published the following Federal Register notices Aug. 2 on AD/CVD proceedings:
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated July 31 with the following headquarters rulings (ruling revocations and modifications will be detailed elsewhere in a separate article as they are announced in the Customs Bulletin):
The International Trade Commission's decision not to cumulate imports of cold-rolled steel from Brazil with those of China, India, Japan and the U.K. in sunset reviews "conflicts" with Court of International Trade precedent, U.S. steel company Cleveland-Cliffs said in a July 31 reply brief. The company also said the commission didn't follow precedent when it decided not to cumulate imports from Brazil with those from South Korea (Cleveland-Cliffs v. U.S., CIT # 22-00257).
Valve pressure relief components should have been granted Section 301 exclusions, importer Bray International and three of its affiliates said in a July 31 complaint at the Court of International Trade (Bray International v. U.S., CIT # 21-00332).
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated July 29 with the following headquarters rulings (ruling revocations and modifications will be detailed elsewhere in a separate article as they are announced in the Customs Bulletin):
A sunset review of an antidumping duty order on hot-rolled steel flat products from Turkey doesn't render a request for a changed circumstances review meaningless, Turkish exporter Ereğli Demir ve Çelik Fabrikalari (Erdemir) said in a July 28 brief opposing motions to dismiss at the Court of International Trade (Ereğli Demir ve Çelik Fabrikalari v. U.S. International Trade Commission, CIT # 22-00350).
The Court of International Trade should reject a request by importer Southern Cross Seafood to supplement the record in a case over the denial of an import application for Chilean sea bass (Patagonian Toothfish) because the documents sought are not part of that record, DOJ and the National Marine Fisheries Service said July 24 (Southern Cross Seafoods v. U.S., CIT # 22-00299).