The Court of International Trade in a Jan. 16 order allowed some changes proposed by the U.S. to the amended protective order (APO) in exporter Ninestar Corp.'s case against its addition to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List, but it denied a motion from Ninestar to amend the protective order (Ninestar Corp. v. U.S., CIT # 23-00182).

Importer Sweet Harvest Foods and the National Honey Packers & Dealers Association will appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit a November Court of International Trade decision sustaining the International Trade Commission's critical circumstances finding on raw honey imports from Vietnam that led to the retroactive imposition of antidumping duties on the products, they said in Jan. 16 notices of appeal (see 2311170064) (Sweet Harvest Foods v. U.S., CIT # 22-00188).

A case brought by Teknik Aluminyum Sanayi A.S., a Turkish common alloy aluminum sheet exporter, was dismissed Jan. 17 for lack of prosecution after the company filed a summons Dec. 13 (see 2312140060). Teknik had intended to contest parts of the Commerce Department’s 2020-2021 review of the antidumping duty order on its products, the summons said (Teknik Aluminyum Sanayi v. U.S., CIT # 23-00265).

A Greek pipe exporter said Commerce made an error calculating its dumping rate, then violated antidumping duty laws when it didn't allow comment before hitting it with an adverse facts available rate, in a Jan. 16 reply brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Corinth Pipeworks Pipe Industry v. U.S., Fed. Cir. # 23-2094).

The Commerce Department lowered all Moroccan phosphate fertilizer exporters’ countervailing duty rates from 19.97% to 7.41% in its final redetermination on remand of the final determination in a CVD investigation. However, it refused to reverse a finding that a Moroccan government program granting reductions in tax fines and penalties was de facto specific to the investigation’s sole respondent (The Mosaic Co. v. U.S., CIT Consol. # 21-00116).

Exporter Datong Juqiang Activated Carbon Co. and its U.S. importer, Datong Juqiang Activated Carbon USA, dismissed their case challenging the Commerce Department's final results of the 2021-22 review of the antidumping duty order on activated carbon from China. Counsel for Juqiang didn't respond to a request for comment. Exporter Carbon Activated Tianjin Co. also dismissed its lawsuit against the same AD review (see 2401100018) (Datong Juqiang Activated Carbon Co. v. U.S., CIT # 23-00267).

Importer Bral Corp. and the U.S. settled a customs case on the company's entries of allegedly defective plywood, according to a Jan. 16 stipulation of dismissal, but didn't make the settlement public. The company declined to comment on the terms of the settlement (Bral Corp. v. United States, CIT # 20-00154).

The Commerce Department was right to collapse two Mexican exporters in a recent review on light-walled rectangular pipe and tube from Mexico, a petitioner said in a Jan. 8 brief (Maquilacero v. U.S., CIT # 23-00091) .

Steel nail importer Hilti dismissed its case at the Court of International Trade following the Supreme Court's decision not to review a case on President Donald Trump's expansion of Section 232 duties onto steel and aluminum "derivative" products. The high court's decision marked the sixth time the court has declined to address whether Trump legally expanded the duties beyond procedural deadlines (see 2401080037). Hilti stayed its case pending resolution of the case rejected by the Supreme Court (Hilti, Inc. v. United States, CIT # 21-00216).

The U.S. and antidumping duty petitioner Wind Tower Trade Coalition defended the Commerce Department's decision to weight average, or "smooth," respondent Marmen's steel plate costs in the AD investigation on utility scale wind towers from Canada (Marmen v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 23-1877).