U.S. Supreme Court to Consider Antidumping Appeals
The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday granted petitions for certiorari to consider two related cases involving the interpretation of U.S. antidumping law during the Court's term beginning in October 2008. It is very rare for the U.S. Supreme Court to consider trade-related cases and it is even more rare for the Supreme Court to consider an appeal in an antidumping case. Both cases involve issues arising from the antidumping investigations on low-enriched uranium from France.
The question presented in U.S. v. Eurodif S.A., et al. (Docket 07-1059) is:
Whether the court of appeals [for the Federal Circuit] erred in rejecting Commerce’s conclusion that foreign merchandise is “sold in the United States” within the meaning of 19 U.S.C. 1673 when a purchaser in the United States obtains foreign merchandise by providing monetary payments and raw materials to a foreign entity that performs a major manufacturing process in which substantial value is added to the raw materials, thereby creating a new and different article of merchandise that is delivered to the U.S. purchaser.
The question presented in USEC, Inc., et al. v. Eurodif S.A., et al. (Docket 07-1078) is:
Whether the Federal Circuit erred in failing to accord Chevron deference to that construction, when a contrary one will prevent the Commerce Department from applying the antidumping law to imports causing or threatening material injury to a domestic industry.
The Washington Post article containing background information on these cases can be found here.
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