Husch Blackwell’s Technology, Manufacturing & Transportation group has published its second-annual Legal Insights for Manufacturing report, covering the top challenges facing U.S.-based manufacturers and including a section on international trade and supply chain concerns. In particular, our team takes a closer look at the elevated importance of know-your-customer/business (KCY/B) practices and how they are

On October 25, 2023, the American Shrimp Processors Association (“ASPA” or “Petitioner”) filed a petition for the imposition of antidumping duties on frozen warmwater shrimp from Ecuador and Indonesia as well as the imposition of countervailing duties on frozen warmwater shrimp from Ecuador, India, Indonesia, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

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On October 17, 2023, the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union, AFL-CIO, CLC (“USW”) (collectively “Petitioners”) filed a petition for the imposition of antidumping duties on truck and bus tires from Thailand.

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The scope of the investigation covers truck and bus tires.

On October 4, 2023, U.S. Aluminum Extruders Coalition (“the Coalition”) and the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union (“United Steelworkers” or “USW”) ( collectively, “Petitioners”) filed a petition for the imposition of antidumping duties on Aluminum Extrusions from Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Italy

As of Friday September 29, 2023, the United States Congress has yet to reach a spending agreement, as a result companies with international trade operations should prepare for a potential Federal government shutdown. The shutdown, which is expected to take place beginning as of 12:01 am October 1, 2023, will cause significant changes to international

On September 28, 2023, Eastman Kodak Company (the “Petitioner”) filed a petition for the imposition of antidumping duties on Aluminum Lithographic Printing Plates from China and Japan, as well as the imposition of countervailing duties on Aluminum Lithographic Printing Plates from China.


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The following language describes the imported merchandise that Petitioner

In a September 6, 2023 opinion issued by Judge M. Miller Baker in three cases brought under the Court’s residual jurisdiction provision, 28 U.S.C. § 1581(i), the U.S. Court of International Trade (“CIT”) held that reliquidation is available as a remedy in Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”) cases.  At least in the short term, this decision creates

On September 6, 2023, the United States Trade Representative (“USTR”) announced that it will extend 352 reinstated exclusions and 77 COVID-related exclusions to duties imposed on goods from China pursuant to Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974.  The USTR imposed Section 301 duties in four tranches or “lists,” and it established a process