U.S. export control reform to move wide array of aircraft parts off the munitions list but still prohibit many of them from being exported to China *

China, USA - June 4 2013
The U.S. Department of State, in response to the President's Export Control Reform Initiative, published final rules in the Federal Register on April…

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Export control reform to move wide array of aircraft parts off the munitions list *

USA - May 15 2013
The Departments of State and Commerce published final rules in the Federal Register on April 16, 2013, moving export control jurisdiction from the…

Co-authors: Melvin S. Schwechter, J. Garrett Cornelison, Mark C. Joye.

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Challenges to applying CVD law to China move forward in U.S. court *

USA - September 4 2012
August 2012 was a busy month for challenges to the U.S. Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) imposing countervailing duties against China, and other non-market economies, while applying the non-market economy methodology in companion anti-dumping cases.

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The American government still has three branches: the Court of Appeals tells Congress it may have acted in haste *

USA - June 9 2012
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on May 9, 2012 sent the case titled GPX International Tire Corp. v. United States back to the United States Court of International Trade for the lower court to consider the constitutionality of legislation passed earlier this year overturning the Federal Circuit’s earlier ruling that countervailing duties may not be imposed on non-market economies.

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U.S. appellate court rules that commerce may not apply the countervailing duty law to non-market economies *

China, USA - December 28 2011
This blog reported on August 30, 2009 that Chief Judge Jane Restani of the U.S. Court of International Trade (“CIT”) ordered the U.S. Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) to revoke the countervailing duty ("CVD") order on pneumatic off-the-road tires from the People’s Republic of China in a case titled GPX International Tire Corporation v. United States.

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