A proposed remand order that would force the International Trade Commission to reconsider a 2021 final injury determination in an antidumping duty case on methionine from Spain and Japan is merely an attempt to have the Commission "reweigh the facts ... to reach a negative determination," the ITC said in a Feb. 9 response to a draft remand order (Adisseo Espana and Adisseo USA v. United States, CIT # 21-00562).
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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 erred when it rejected extension requests and imposed adverse facts available in its 2019-2021 antidumping duty administrative review on quartz surface products from India, three affiliated Indian producers said in a Feb. 8 complaint to the Court of International Trade (Antique Marbonite v. U.S., CIT # 23-00030).
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
The Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) was updated Feb. 8 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):
In the Feb. 8 Customs Bulletin (Vol. 57, No. 5), CBP published a proposal to revoke rulings on white noise machines and reflective aluminum panels.
A proposed remand order that would force the International Trade Commission to reconsider a 2021 final injury determination in an antidumping duty case on methionine from Spain and Japan overly restricts the ITC's authority and discretion, defendant-intervenor Novus International argued in its Feb. 8 response to the draft order (Adisseo Espana and Adisseo USA v. U.S., CIT # 21-00562).
The Court of International Trade should dismiss a penalty case against defendant Zhe "John" Liu since the statute of limitations had run out by the time the case was filed, and because the government has not established how Liu was connected to the allegedly fraudulent scheme, Liu argued in a Feb 7 brief at the Court of International Trade (U.S. vs. Zhe "John" Liu, CIT # 22-00215).
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York:
CBP has opened an Enforce and Protect Act investigation on whether Superior Commercial Services (SCS) evaded antidumping and countervailing duty orders on quartz surface products from China and has imposed interim measures, according to Feb. 2 notice. The agency said there is a reasonable suspicion that SCS transshipped quartz surface products from China through Vietnam to evade AD/CVD of up to 526.14%.
The following are short summaries of recent CBP NY rulings issued by the agency's National Commodity Specialist Division in New York: