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Oct 10Sat
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT sustains in part and remands in part Commerce's remand redetermination in ninth CVD review of multilayered wood flooring from China

    The U.S. Court of International Trade, in Slip Op. 26-124, sustained in part and remanded in part Commerce's remand redetermination in the ninth administrative review of the countervailing duty order on multilayered wood flooring from China for the January 1 through December 31, 2019 period of review. The court reviewed Commerce's use of UN Comtrade and ITTO Peru data in the face and backboard veneer benchmarks and the plywood benchmark, and its use of adverse facts available to find certain of Baroque's input suppliers to be government authorities. The opinion is dated October 9, 2026, in Consol. Court No. 22-00210 before Judge Timothy M. Reif.

Aug 10Mon
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT grants partial intervention to vehicle makers coalition in ICON EV EAPA suit

    The Court of International Trade granted in part and denied in part the American Personal Transportation Vehicle Manufacturers Coalition's renewed motion for permissive intervention in ICON EV LLC v. United States, Court No. 26-02759, Slip Op. 26-88, dated August 10, 2026. The Coalition may intervene only to challenge Count III of ICON's complaint, which alleges that CBP imposed interim measures without a reasonable suspicion of evasion under the Enforce and Protect Act, and must file an answer within 14 days of the order.

Jul 29Wed
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT sustains Commerce scope ruling on Chinese carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings finished in Vietnam

    The U.S. Court of International Trade sustained Commerce's second remand redetermination in the final scope ruling on certain carbon steel butt-weld pipe fittings from China, holding that rough fittings produced in China that underwent sizing/reforming or heat- or cold-treating and finishing in Vietnam fall within the antidumping duty order. The ruling covers the two Vietnam production scenarios in the covered merchandise referral, EAPA Consolidated Case Number 7335 (Remand Number 7717), involving Norca Industrial Company, LLC and International Piping & Procurement Group, LP. The court's decision is Slip Op. 26-83 in Consol. Court No. 23-00231, dated July 29, 2026.

Jun 23Tue
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT remands Commerce's final determination in ferrosilicon from Kazakhstan AD investigation

    The U.S. Court of International Trade remanded Commerce's final determination in the 2023 antidumping investigation of ferrosilicon from Kazakhstan, Slip Op. 26-68, Court No. 25-00100, dated June 23, 2026. The court addressed YDD Corporation's challenges to Commerce's inclusion of sales destined for Canada in its dumping margin calculation, its application of partial adverse facts available, its use of zeroing, and its AFA-based margin calculation, and TNC Kazchrome's challenge to Commerce's selection of the shipment date as the date of sale. The opinion does not state the remand results or any revised rates.

Jun 17Wed
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT remands Commerce's negative dumping determination on melamine from Qatar over Turkey proxy selection

    The U.S. Court of International Trade, in Slip Op. 26-64, Court No. 25-00005, sustained in part and remanded in part Commerce's negative dumping determination on melamine from Qatar, holding that the agency failed to adequately explain its selection of Turkey as the third-country proxy for normal value. The court sustained Commerce's refusal to adjust the cost of natural gas inputs from affiliated supplier QAFCO, because the transactions were above the Qatari-market price. The case is Cornerstone Chemical Company v. United States, with Qatar Melamine Company and QatarEnergy Marketing as defendant-intervenors; the opinion is dated June 17, 2026. The remand is for reconsideration of the Turkey proxy selection.

Jun 15Mon
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT sustains Commerce's second remand redetermination in wind towers AD case against Marmen

    The U.S. Court of International Trade sustained Commerce's Second Remand Redetermination in the antidumping duty investigation on utility scale wind towers from Canada, in Marmen Inc. v. United States, Slip Op. 26-62, Consol. Court No. 20-00169, issued June 15, 2026. The remand followed the Federal Circuit's decision in Marmen III, 134 F.4th 1334 (Fed. Cir. 2025), which vacated Commerce's use of the Cohen's d test and required it to accept Marmen's price reconciliation information.

May 26Tue
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT sustains Commerce anticircumvention finding on PC strand from Mexico

    The U.S. Court of International Trade, in Slip Op. 26-56, denied Deacero S.A.P.I. de C.V. and Deacero USA, Inc.'s motion for judgment on the agency record and sustained in full Commerce's final affirmative anticircumvention determination on prestressed concrete steel wire strand from Mexico, Court No. 24-00212. The inquiry, initiated July 31, 2023, covered high carbon steel wire from Mexico assembled or completed into PC strand in the United States during January 1, 2021 through June 30, 2023. The court rejected Deacero's challenges to Commerce's production comparison methodology, its minor-or-insignificant processing analysis under section 781(a)(2), and its treatment of patterns of trade.

May 15Fri
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT remands Commerce circumvention determination on Chinese garlic chunks in Green Garden Produce

    The U.S. Court of International Trade held in Slip Op. 26-51, Court No. 24-00114, that Commerce failed to adequately explain its circumvention determination covering peeled, trimmed, blanched and individually quick-frozen garlic chunks from China, and remanded for reconsideration. The court found Commerce did not adequately address Green Garden's argument that cutting cloves into pieces is a material change, or its argument that the chunks are preserved by citric acid and therefore fall within the order's exclusion for garlic preserved by the addition of other ingredients.

May 14Thu
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT sustains Commerce's final results in quartz surface products reviews from China

    The U.S. Court of International Trade sustained Commerce's final results in the 2021–2023 antidumping duty administrative review and the 2021–2022 countervailing duty administrative review of certain quartz surface products from China, in AM Stone & Cabinets, Inc. v. United States, Slip Op. 26-50, Court No. 24-00241, decided May 14, 2026. The reviews concerned whether exporter Universal Quartz remained eligible to certify that its quartz surface products are not produced from Chinese-origin quartz slab; Commerce found it ineligible and assigned it the China-wide AD rate and the all-others rate in the CVD review.