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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.

  2. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT sustains in part and remands in part Commerce's final results in AD review on activated carbon from China

    The U.S. Court of International Trade sustained in part and remanded in part Commerce's amended final results in the 2022-2023 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain activated carbon from China, Consol. Court No. 24-00262, Slip Op. 26-84, dated July 29, 2026. The court found Commerce's selection of Malaysia as the primary surrogate country unsupported and remanded that issue. The amended final results, at 89 Fed. Reg. 104,978, calculated weighted-average dumping margins of $1.90/kg for Jilin Bright, $1.10/kg for GHC and $1.35/kg for non-selected companies under review.

Jul 27Mon
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT sustains Commerce remand redetermination in 2021 softwood lumber AD review

    The U.S. Court of International Trade sustained Commerce's remand redetermination in the 2021 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain softwood lumber products from Canada, Slip Op. 26-82, Consol. Court No. 23-00187. The remand followed the CAFC's decision in Marmen III, 134 F.4th 1334 (Fed. Cir. 2025), which vacated Commerce's use of the Cohen's d test; Commerce replaced it with a price difference test as the first step of its differential pricing analysis.

  2. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT sustains in part and remands in part Commerce's CVD final determination on melamine from Qatar

    The U.S. Court of International Trade, in Slip Op. 26-81 dated July 27, 2026, sustained in part and remanded in part Commerce's final affirmative countervailing duty determination on melamine from Qatar, 89 Fed. Reg. 97,593 (Dec. 9, 2024), in Court No. 25-00053. The court sustained Commerce's rejection of QAFCO's reconciliation of unreported electricity and water usage at verification, but remanded for reconsideration of the 16% adverse facts available subsidy rate for electricity and water and the benefit determination for land rights. Commerce had calculated 8% ad valorem for electricity, 8% ad valorem for water, and 1.71% ad valorem for certain land rights.

Jul 24Fri
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT remands Commerce's final AD determination on corrosion-resistant steel from Mexico

    The U.S. Court of International Trade remanded Commerce's final affirmative antidumping duty determination on certain corrosion-resistant steel products from Mexico, covering the July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024 period of investigation, in Galvasid S.A. de C.V. v. United States, Slip Op. 26-80, Court Nos. 25-00235 and 26-00825. The court held that Galvasid's challenge, filed October 28, 2025, was timely under 19 U.S.C. § 1516a(g)(3)(A)(i) because no binational panel review was requested, and dismissed the later complaint in Court No. 26-00825. Commerce had assigned Galvasid a 24.05% weighted-average dumping margin using partial facts available with an adverse inference, amended to 24.09% after a ministerial error correction.

Jul 22Wed
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT denies Bridgestone's challenge to Commerce's total adverse facts available determination in truck and bus tires from Thailand

    The U.S. Court of International Trade denied Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC's motion for judgment on the agency record and sustained Commerce's final determination in the antidumping duty investigation of truck and bus tires from Thailand, 89 Fed. Reg. 83636 (Oct. 17, 2024). In Slip Op. 26-79, Court No. 24-00263, Judge Gary S. Katzmann found that Commerce's application of total adverse facts available was supported by substantial evidence because the errors in Bridgestone's reporting were pervasive, and that Commerce lawfully corroborated Bridgestone's dumping margin. The court sustained the Final Determination.

  2. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT sustains ITC's negative countervailing duty injury determination on glass wine bottles from China

    The U.S. Court of International Trade sustained in full the U.S. International Trade Commission's final negative determination in the countervailing duty investigation of glass wine bottles from China, in Slip Op. 26-78, Court No. 24-00199, and denied the U.S. Glass Producers Coalition's motion for judgment on the agency record. The Commission had found the domestic industry was neither materially injured nor threatened with material injury by reason of subject imports. The court held the Commission's findings on price effects, adverse impact and threat of material injury were supported by substantial evidence and in accordance with law.

Jul 21Tue
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT sustains Commerce's fourth remand results in softwood lumber CVD expedited review

    The U.S. Court of International Trade sustained Commerce's fourth remand results in the countervailing duty expedited review of certain softwood lumber products from Canada, in Consol. Court No. 19-00122, Slip Op. 26-77, dated July 21, 2026. On remand Commerce reopened the record, netted out C$5,317,890 from the category "Lumber (Unaffiliated Canadian Suppliers) - Resold," and revised D&G/Portbec's overall subsidy rate down to 1.05 percent from 1.75 percent, still above de minimis. The court also upheld Commerce's refusal to deduct secondary processing costs for remanufactured lumber, finding the argument forfeited.

Jul 17Fri
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT sustains Commerce's third remand results in Saha Thai steel pipe AD review

    The U.S. Court of International Trade sustained Commerce's Third Remand Results in the 2019-2020 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on circular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes from Thailand, holding that Commerce's application of an adverse inference to the affiliation determination between Saha Thai Steel Pipe Public Company Limited and its home-market customer BNK Steel Co. Ltd. is supported by substantial evidence and in accordance with law. The case is Saha Thai Steel Pipe Pub. Co. v. United States, Slip Op. 26-76, Court No. 21-00627, decided July 17, 2026. The underlying review is the final determination published at 86 Fed. Reg. 69620.

Jul 15Wed
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT sustains ITC's second remand results in phosphate fertilizer injury case

    The U.S. Court of International Trade sustained the International Trade Commission's second remand results in OCP S.A. v. United States, Consol. Ct. No. 21-00219, Slip Op. 26-75, upholding the Commission's finding that subsidized imports of phosphate fertilizer from Morocco and Russia materially injured U.S. producers. The court held that an agency may disagree with a remand order so long as its conclusions on the remanded issues are supported by substantial evidence, and found the Commission's findings on domestic reshipment capacity, import volume, price effects and causation supported by the record.

Jul 14Tue
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT sustains in part and remands in part Commerce's chlorinated isocyanurates review from China

    The U.S. Court of International Trade sustained in part and remanded in part Commerce's final results in the antidumping duty administrative review of chlorinated isocyanurates from China for the period June 1, 2022, through May 31, 2023, in Bio-Lab, Inc. v. United States, Court No. 25-00054, Slip Op. 26-74. The court upheld Commerce's determination that Mexico was not at the same level of economic development as China during the period of review and remanded on whether chlorinated isos are unusual or unique merchandise under Policy Bulletin 04.1 and whether calcium hypochlorite and sodium hypochlorite are comparable merchandise for surrogate country selection.

Jul 13Mon
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT denies dismissal and preliminary injunction in challenge to NMFS 2026 comparability findings on New Zealand fisheries

    The U.S. Court of International Trade, in Slip Op. 26-73, Court No. 26-02462, denied the government's motion to dismiss for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction and denied Maui and Hector's Dolphin Defenders NZ Inc.'s motion for a preliminary injunction that would have enjoined NMFS's March 11, 2026 comparability findings and imposed an import ban on New Zealand set net and trawl fisheries. The plaintiff challenges the 2026 Comparability Findings, 91 Fed. Reg. 11,962, as arbitrary and capricious and contrary to law under 5 U.S.C. § 706(2)(A), and alleges the failure to implement an import ban is agency action unlawfully withheld or unreasonably delayed under 5 U.S.C. § 706(1).

Jul 8Wed
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT dismisses third challenge to CBP denial of customs broker license over CBLE Question No. 27

    The U.S. Court of International Trade granted the government's motion to dismiss in Byungmin Chae v. United States, Slip Op. 26-72, Court No. 26-00788, holding that the plaintiff's third challenge to CBP's denial of credit for Question No. 27 on the April 2018 Customs Broker License Examination is barred by claim preclusion. The opinion, dated July 8, 2026, was issued by Judge Timothy M. Reif. The court found the action arises from the same transactional facts as the earlier litigation, in which the plaintiff's score reached 73.75 percent, below the 75 percent passing score required by 19 C.F.R. § 111.11(a)(4).

Jul 1Wed
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT denies USW challenge to Commerce's AD order on truck and bus tires from Thailand

    The U.S. Court of International Trade, in Slip Op. 26-71 dated July 1, 2026, denied the USW's motion for judgment on the agency record in Court No. 25-00004, sustaining Commerce's final affirmative antidumping determination on truck and bus tires from Thailand, 89 Fed. Reg. 83636. The union had argued that Commerce failed to explain why it did not apply an adverse inference to Prinx Chengshan Tire (Thailand) Co., Ltd.'s reporting of financial expenses when calculating the financial expense ratio. The court held that Commerce's decisional path was reasonably discernible and that the determination was supported by substantial evidence and in accordance with law.

  2. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT remands Commerce's final determination on brass rod from India over cost adjustments

    The U.S. Court of International Trade granted plaintiffs' motion for judgment on the agency record in American Brass Rod Fair Trade Coalition v. United States, Slip Op. 26-70, Court No. 24-00119, and remanded Commerce's final affirmative less-than-fair-value determination on brass rod from India for further consideration and explanation of adjustments relating to Rajhans Metals Private Limited's cost of manufacturing. The court found Commerce did not reasonably address concerns about the work-in-progress inventory adjustment and the scrap offset methodology. The remand concerns the final determination published at 89 Fed. Reg. 29,300.

Jun 29Mon
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT sustains in part and remands in part Commerce's second remand redetermination in fluid end blocks review

    The U.S. Court of International Trade sustained in part and remanded in part Commerce's second remand redetermination in the less-than-fair-value investigation of forged steel fluid end blocks from Germany, in Ellwood City Forge Co. v. United States, Slip Op. 26-69, Consol. Court No. 21-0007. BGH Edelstahl Siegen GmbH asked the court to reject Commerce's particular market situation adjustments for subsidized electricity rates and imported ferrochrome inputs, and Ellwood asked the court to reject Commerce's construction of 19 U.S.C. § 1677b(f)(1)(A) and to remand for reconsideration of that pathway. The court sustained in part and remanded in part the second remand redetermination.

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.

  2. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT sustains Commerce remand redetermination in AD review of steel racks from China

    The U.S. Court of International Trade sustained Commerce's remand redetermination in the antidumping duty administrative review of certain steel racks from China for the September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2022 period of review, in Nanjing Dongsheng Shelf Manufacturing Co. v. United States, Slip Op. 26-67, Court No. 24-00085. On remand Commerce accepted Nanjing Dongsheng's Separate Rate Certification, treated the company as a mandatory respondent and assigned it a 25% weighted-average dumping margin. The court held that Nanjing waived its challenge to Commerce's denial of a scrap offset because it failed to exhaust its administrative remedies by not raising the issue during the remand proceeding.

Jun 17Wed
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT sustains Commerce's third remand results in AD case on common alloy aluminum sheet from Turkey

    The U.S. Court of International Trade sustained Commerce's Third Remand Results in the antidumping duty proceeding on common alloy aluminum sheet from Turkey, Consol. Court No. 21-00246, Slip Op. 26-65. The court held that Commerce properly removed Assan Aluminyum Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S.'s untimely supplemental information from the record, that the record lacked sufficient information to calculate a duty drawback adjustment, and that Commerce's cancellation of verification was not an abuse of discretion. The dispute concerns the application of a duty drawback adjustment under Turkey's Inward Processing Regime.

  2. 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.

  3. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT grants default judgment against Franco Tire Distribution in Section 1592 penalty case

    The U.S. Court of International Trade granted the government's motion for default judgment against Franco Tire Distribution, Inc., a U.S. importer, in a civil penalty case under 19 U.S.C. § 1592, entering judgment of $55,882.98 plus interest in Slip Op. 26-66, Court No. 24-00161, dated June 17, 2026. The government alleged that Franco negligently omitted the antidumping case number A-570-040-000 and countervailing case number C-570-041-000 from entry summaries for two entries of truck and bus tires from China, and failed to pay estimated AD/CVD duties at importation. Franco later corrected the summaries and paid $27,941.49 in duties but did not pay the penalty of two times that amount.

Jun 16Tue
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT sustains Commerce's denial of double remedies adjustment in aluminum foil review from China

    The U.S. Court of International Trade sustained Commerce's remand redetermination denying Jiangsu Dingsheng New Materials Joint-Stock Co., Ltd. and affiliated plaintiffs a double remedies adjustment under 19 U.S.C. § 1677f-1(f)(1) in the 2021–2022 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on aluminum foil from China. In Slip Op. 26-63, Court No. 23-00264, Judge Claire R. Kelly held that Commerce's finding that Dingsheng provided insufficient evidence of a subsidy-to-cost link and a cost-to-price link is supported by substantial evidence, and that 19 U.S.C. § 1677m(d) did not require Commerce to give notice of deficiencies in the Double Remedies Questionnaire Response.

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.

Jun 12Fri
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT sustains Commerce's amended final results in seventh AD review of passenger vehicle and light truck tires from China

    The U.S. Court of International Trade denied Giti Tire Global Trading Pte. Ltd. and affiliates Giti Radial Tire (Anhui) Company Ltd. and Giti Tire (Fujian) Company Ltd.'s motion for judgment on the agency record and sustained Commerce's amended final results in the seventh administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain passenger vehicle and light truck tires from China, covering August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2022 (Slip Op. 26-61, Court No. 24-00083, dated June 12, 2026).

Jun 11Thu
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT remands Commerce's final determination and AD order on paper plates from China

    The U.S. Court of International Trade remanded Commerce's final determination and antidumping duty order in the 2024 investigation of paper plates from China, in Fuzhou Hengli Paper Co. v. United States, Slip Op. 26-59, Court No. 25-00064, dated June 11, 2026. The court held that Commerce's application of total adverse facts available, which produced a 515.40% dumping margin for Fuzhou, was not supported by substantial evidence or otherwise in accordance with law. The case concerns the Final Determination published at 90 Fed. Reg. 8,271 (Jan. 28, 2025), covering certain paper plates from China, Thailand and Vietnam.

Jun 9Tue
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT denies summary judgment to LANXESS on classification of Axion CA 1330 catalyst mixture

    The U.S. Court of International Trade, in Slip Op. 26-58, Court No. 23-00073, denied LANXESS Corporation's motion for summary judgment and granted in part and denied in part the government's cross-motion on the classification of Axion CA 1330, a liquid mixture of toluene, methylaluminoxane and trimethylaluminum. The court weighed HTSUS subheading 3208.90.00 as a paint or varnish at 3.2% ad valorem, subheading 3815.19.00 as a supported catalyst at 0% (LANXESS's position), and subheading 3824.99.28 as a preparation of the chemical or allied industries at 6.5% (the government's position).

Jun 8Mon
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT sustains in part and remands in part USITC brass rod injury determinations on Israel

    The U.S. Court of International Trade, in Slip Op. 26-57, Court No. 24-00197, sustained in part and remanded in part the U.S. International Trade Commission's final affirmative material injury determinations in the antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of brass rod from Israel, Inv. Nos. 701-TA-687 and 731-TA-1614. The Government of Israel, Ministry of Economy and Industry challenged the Commission's treatment of out-of-period information, its volume, pricing, negative-impact and non-attribution analyses. Judge Lisa W. Wang granted the motion for judgment on the agency record in part and denied it in part.

May 26Tue
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT denies government motion to dismiss ICON EV's EAPA due process challenge

    The U.S. Court of International Trade held in Slip Op. 26-55, issued May 26, 2026, that it has subject matter jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1581(i) over ICON EV LLC's Fifth Amendment due process challenge to interim measures CBP imposed under the Enforce and Protect Act, and denied the government's motion to dismiss. The case, Court No. 26-02759, concerns interim measures CBP imposed on April 6, 2026 in EAPA Cons. Case 8247, requiring an over-500% duty rate and live entry cash deposits on ICON's imports of low-speed personal transportation vehicles from China. The court had granted ICON a preliminary injunction on April 24, 2026, effective April 30, 2026.

  2. 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 22Fri
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT sustains Commerce remand redetermination in AD review of nickel-plated steel from Japan

    The U.S. Court of International Trade sustained Commerce's final remand redetermination in the antidumping duty administrative review of diffusion-annealed, nickel-plated flat-rolled steel products from Japan for the period May 1, 2022, through April 30, 2023, in Toyo Kohan Co., Ltd. v. United States, Court No. 24-00261, Slip Op. 26-54. On remand Commerce continued to use the shipment date as the date of sale and discontinued its Cohen's d test, applying the price difference test instead; Toyo Kohan's estimated weighted-average dumping margin increased from 4.44 percent to 4.58 percent.

May 20Wed
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT denies government motion to stay Section 122 tariff injunction pending appeal

    The U.S. Court of International Trade denied the government's motion to stay enforcement of its judgment pending appeal in Washington v. United States and Burlap and Barrel, Inc. v. United States, Slip Op. 26-53, Court Nos. 26-01472-3JP and 26-01606-3JP.

May 18Mon
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT remands Commerce's de facto specificity finding in Hyundai Steel CVD review

    The U.S. Court of International Trade, in Slip Op. 26-52, Court No. 23-00211, remanded Commerce's second redetermination in the 2021 administrative review of the countervailing duty order on certain cut-to-length carbon-quality steel plate from the Republic of Korea, holding that Commerce's finding that the electricity subsidy Hyundai Steel received was de facto specific under 19 U.S.C. § 1677(5A)(D)(iii)(III) is unsupported by substantial evidence. Commerce had found the Electricity Program specific because Hyundai's share of industrial-class electricity consumption exceeded its contribution to Korea's 2021 GDP. The court ordered further consideration on remand.

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.

May 12Tue
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT sustains second remand results assigning zero dumping margin to Fufeng and Meihua in xanthan gum review

    The U.S. Court of International Trade sustained Commerce's Second Remand Results in Consol. Court No. 23-00068, the 2020-2021 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on xanthan gum from China (88 Fed. Reg. 9861). On remand, Commerce found HTS 2701.19 to be the proper subheading for valuing Fufeng's coal factor of production and calculated a revised dumping margin of zero percent for Neimenggu Fufeng Biotechnologies Co., Shandong Fufeng Fermentation Co. and Xinjiang Fufeng Biotechnologies Co.; Meihua Group International (Hong Kong) Limited and Xinjiang Meihua Amino Acid Co., Ltd. had their separate rate recalculated to zero percent because it was based on Fufeng's weighted-average margin.

May 11Mon
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT denies motion to backdate statutory injunction in Vietnamese honey antidumping case

    The U.S. Court of International Trade denied a motion by Bao Nguyen Honeybee Co., Ltd. and eight other Vietnamese exporters to amend the statutory injunction in Court No. 25-00085 nunc pro tunc so that it would be effective as of August 8, 2025, the date they first moved for an injunction. The court held that the Federal Circuit's Agro Dutch exception does not apply because the liquidation at issue is alleged to have occurred before the injunction was entered, not during a post-entry grace period, and the plaintiff-intervenors did not show that the parties or the court intended the injunction to cover entries liquidated before it took effect.

May 7Thu
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT grants permanent injunction against Proclamation 11012 Section 122 import surcharge for two importers and Washington

    The U.S. Court of International Trade, in Slip Op. 26-47, granted summary judgment and entered a permanent injunction for The State of Washington, Burlap and Barrel, Inc. and Basic Fun, Inc. against duties imposed under Proclamation No. 11012, which invoked Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974, 19 U.S.C. § 2312, to impose a temporary import surcharge of up to 15 percent ad valorem. The court dismissed without prejudice the claims of the remaining non-importer plaintiffs, including The State of Oregon and 21 other states and officials, for lack of standing, and denied as moot the plaintiffs' alternative motions for a preliminary injunction.

May 6Wed
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT dismisses Aloha Pencil challenge to Commerce rescission of 2023–2024 cased pencils review

    The U.S. Court of International Trade granted the government's motion to dismiss for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction in Aloha Pencil Company, LLC v. United States, Slip Op. 26-46, Court No. 25-00102, an opinion and order dated May 6, 2026. Aloha Pencil had challenged Commerce's rescission of the 2023–2024 administrative review of the antidumping duty order on certain cased pencils from China, 90 Fed. Reg. 19,268 (May 7, 2025). The court found Aloha Pencil made no factual allegations in its complaint to support its claim to be a manufacturer, producer or wholesaler of the domestic like product.

  2. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT denies motion to extend statutory injunction to 13 already-liquidated entries in AD/CVD case

    The U.S. Court of International Trade denied Kumar Industries' and Bajaj Healthcare Limited's motion to apply the statutory injunction to all entries in the period of review in Court No. 25-00081, Slip Op. 26-45, holding that the 13 entries liquidated on August 29 and September 5, 2025, before the injunction was entered on September 26, 2025, are final. The court had granted the statutory injunction covering shipments entered during the period of review of June 1, 2022, through May 31, 2023, after plaintiffs missed the June 29, 2025 deadline.

Apr 28Tue
  1. CIT · Slip Opinions

    CIT sustains in part and remands in part Commerce's final results in FEB AD review on Italy

    The U.S. Court of International Trade, in Slip Op. 26-44 dated April 28, 2026, sustained in part and remanded in part Commerce's final results in the antidumping duty administrative review of forged steel fluid end blocks from Italy for the period July 23, 2020, through December 31, 2021, published at 88 Fed. Reg. 55,010. The court addressed Commerce's choice of constructed value SG&A expense and profit data and its valuation of a major input purchased from an affiliated supplier. The case is Ellwood City Forge Co. v. United States, Court No. 23-00191, before Judge Timothy M. Reif.