Big box retailer Target Corp. asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit for more time to file its reply brief in its suit against the Court of International Trade's decision to order reliquidation of Target's entries that erroneously received a favorable antidumping duty rate. While the brief is currently due on Jan. 5, 2024, Target asked if it could submit its arguments on Jan. 19 "due largely to the circumstances of the holidays" (Target Corp. v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 23-2274).

Importer Dell Will Customs Brokers (USA) Inc. dismissed its customs case on Dec. 27 at the Court of International Trade. The company filed suit in December 2021 claiming that its scaffolding, parts or accessories, of Harmonized Tariff Schedule subheadings 7308.40.00 and 9403.20.00, are exempt from Section 301 China tariffs under secondary subheading 9903.88.03. Counsel for Dell Will didn't respond to our request for comment (Dell Will Customs Brokers (USA) Inc. F/A Metal Tech-Omega Inc. v. U.S., CIT # 21-00630).

The Commerce Department unreasonably selected data from Kazakhstan's Bureau of Natural Statistics data to use as a tier two benchmark regarding the provision of natural gas for less than adequate remuneration, countervailing duty petitioner The Mosaic Co. argued in a Dec. 28 complaint (The Mosaic Co. v. U.S., CIT # 23-00247).

Nebraska resident Byungmin Chae submitted a petition for rehearing en banc to the U.S. Supreme Court in a renewed attempt to get the high court to hear his appeal of the 2018 customs broker license exam. Chae, mostly representing himself, has seen his case through multiple rounds of appeal at CBP, the Court of International Trade and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, ending up one correctly answered question shy of a passing grade (Byungmin Chae v. Janet Yellen, U.S. Sup. Ct. # 23-200). The court received the Nov. 17 petition on Dec. 18.

Countervailing duty petitioner Nucor Corp. and the U.S. on Dec. 28 dismissed their appeal of a Court of International Trade ruling sustaining the Commerce Department's decision that found electricity wasn't provided below cost in South Korea. No reason was given for why the appellants dismissed the appeal, and counsel didn't respond to our request for comment (POSCO v. U.S., Fed. Cir. # 22-1576, -2130).

No lawsuits have been filed recently at the Court of International Trade.

Commerce has still not properly explained why India is a better surrogate country for Vietnam than Indonesia for an antidumping duty review’s analysis of fish filet exports, an importer said in remand comments Dec. 22 (Catfish Farmers of America v. U.S., CIT # 21-00380).

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit allowed exporter Tau-Ken Temir (TKT) to use 3,135 additional words in its reply brief in a case on the countervailing duty investigation on silicon metal from Kazakstan. TKT asked for 14,000 words, twice the original allowance of 7,000, but the appellate court granted it the use of 10,135 words amid opposition from CVD petitioners (Tau-Ken Temir v. United States, Fed. Cir. # 22-2204).

Each party to a conflict involving a raw Argentinian honey antidumping duty investigation on Dec. 22 accused the opposing side of misunderstanding the case before the court (Nexco v. United States, CIT # 22-00203).

The International Trade Commission should have continued its 2023 injury investigation of aluminum extrusion imports from the Dominican Republic, not ruled the imports were “negligible,” domestic petitioners argued Dec. 22 at the Court of International Trade (U.S. Aluminum Extruders Coalition v. United States, CIT # 23-00270).