On April 23, 2025, the Commerce Department announced a new investigation initiated pursuant to Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. This is the fourth Section 232 investigation announced in April 2025, following...more
Over the past few weeks, the Trump Administration has announced three new investigations under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 into whether imports of pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and critical minerals and...more
President Trump has announced 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from all countries pursuant to Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. The two Presidential Proclamations issued late on February 10, 2025,...more
On June 3, 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s (“Commerce”) Bureau of Industry and Security (“BIS”) published notice in the Federal Register of its initiation of an investigation to determine whether imports of vanadium...more
On February 27, 2020, President Trump announced that he would not impose duties on imports of titanium sponge pursuant to his authority under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, a statute that allows for the...more
On November 7, the United States Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) released a report assessing actions the U.S. Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) have taken to address...more
On Thursday, March 1, 2018, President Trump announced that his administration will impose a tariff of 25 percent on imports of steel and a tariff of 10 percent on imports of aluminum. These remedies are the result of the...more
On Friday, February 16, 2018, Secretary Ross released public versions of the U.S. Department of Commerce’s reports concerning the agency’s section 232 investigations into the impact on national security of steel and aluminum...more
On January 10, 2018, Canada circulated to WTO members a request for consultations challenging several aspects of the United States antidumping and countervailing proceedings.
In particular, Canada challenges: -
the way...more
On Friday, October 27, 2017, the Department of Commerce announced its affirmative preliminary determination in the antidumping duty investigation on aluminum foil from China. The Department calculated preliminary dumping...more
The U.S. Department of Commerce (the “Department”) is required by statute to, upon request, conduct a review and establish an individual dumping or countervailing duty margin for an exporter or producer of subject merchandise...more
In our September 2015 edition of the Trade Advisor, we discussed the effect that recent amendments to the antidumping laws would have on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s (“the Department”) ability to apply facts available...more
Recent changes to the antidumping laws will make it more difficult for uncooperative parties to argue for a reduced dumping rate on appeal. Section 502 of the Trade Preferences Extension Act of 2015 (“the Act”) amends the...more
On June 15th, the Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) issued the final results in the 19th Administrative Review of the antidumping order on fresh garlic from the China. During the review, Kelly Drye attorneys, on behalf of...more