Antidumping, Countervailing Duty and Other Import Relief LawsThe firm's trade department has successfully represented numerous manufacturers, exporters and importers in proceedings brought under antidumping, countervailing duty, section 201, section 301, and other U.S. trade relief statutes. We work with our clients in the context of existing trade-related investigations, orders and remedies to place them in the best possible position to withstand any adverse competitive impact or market disruption.
Our lawyers, who practice exclusively in this area, have represented companies in antidumping and other trade matters involving exports from virtually every major country in Asia, Europe and the Americas. These cases have covered such diverse products as antifriction bearings, apple juice concentrate, bicycles, pasta, color televisions, sugar, pipe fittings, steel plate, stainless steel pipe, steel wire rod, chemicals, wearing apparel and textiles, and a variety of other goods. Our presence in Washington, D.C. enables the firm to monitor and react promptly to antidumping and other trade actions.
Our counseling includes assistance not only in active investigations and annual administrative reviews of antidumping and countervailing duty cases, but also in pre-investigation or pre-review audits. Such internal audits enable clients to adopt strategies designed to avoid exposure to antidumping and countervailing duty assessments, or to minimize prospective liability for such assessments. In addition to handling antidumping and countervailing duty matters, the firm's lawyers have been engaged in other matters involving alleged unfair competition, enforcement and administration of international trade agreements, trade adjustment assistance and trade actions by the United States Trade Representative.
Representative Trade Cases Handled by Grunfeld, Desiderio, Lebowitz, Silverman & Klestadt LLP Attorneys
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Cases
- Antifriction Bearings from Germany, France, U.K., Italy, Japan
- Antifriction Bearings from Fourteen Countries (incl. Korea, Canada, Portugal, Hong Kong)
- Automotive Replacement Windshields from China
- Bicycles from China
- Ball Bearings from Turkey
- Ball Bearings from China
- Buttweld Carbon Steel Pipe Fittings from Taiwan
- Carbon Steel Pipe from Turkey
- Calcium Hypochlorite from Japan
- Certain Non-Frozen Concentrated Apple Juice from China
- Creatine Monohydrate from China
- Certain Preserved Mushrooms from China
- Color Televisions from Taiwan
- Cotton Shop Towels from China
- Garlic from China
- Honey from China
- Industrial Belts from Japan, Germany & Italy
- Lawn and Garden Fence Posts from China
- Lead and Bismuth Steel from Germany
- Light-Walled Rectangular Pipe from Taiwan
- Manmade Fiber Sweaters from Hong Kong
- Pasta from Italy
- Pasta from Turkey
- Petroleum Wax Candles from China
- Photographic Color Paper from Japan
- Residential Door Locks from Taiwan
- Small-Diameter Carbon Steel Pipe from Taiwan
- Stainless Steel Pipe from Taiwan
- Steel Plate from Taiwan
- Steel Wire Rope from China
- Steel Wire Rod from Germany
- Sugar from Canada
- Tapered Roller Bearings from West Germany
- Wood Bedroom Furniture from China
- Bicycles from China (Lanham Act)
- Lead and Bismuth Steel from Germany (countervailing duties)
- Non-egg Dry Pasta from Italy (countervailing duties)
- Oil Country Tubular Goods from Taiwan (countervailing duties)
- Railroad Freight Car Bearings from Germany (Lanham Act)
- §301 Investigations, European Community
- §301 Investigations, People's Republic of China
- §201 - Escape Clause case: Leather Wearing Apparel
- §201 - Escape Clause case: Cooking Ware
- §406 - Market Disruption and §201 - Escape Clause: Clothes Pins
- Vertical Milling Machines (§337 - trademark infringement)
- Woodworking Machines (§337 - trademark infringement)
- Skateboards (§337 - patent infringement)
- Knit fabric, Robes/Dressing Gowns and Bras (China Textile Safeguards)
- Apple Juice Concentrate from China: Pursuant to Court directive, all five mandatory respondents are to receive 0% and be excluded from the dumping order (2002). These were the only 0% rates ever achieved in an investigation covering a Chinese agricultural or food product.
- Apple Juice Concentrate from China: 0% for seven exporters in first administrative review (2002).
- Automobile Replacement Glass Windshields from China: 11.80% (2002), historically one of the lowest rates out of China and the lowest rate for an automotive product. The case is currently before the U.S. Court of International Trade.
- Ball Bearings from China and 13 Other Countries: Victory in ITC Preliminary Decision (1991).
- Ball Bearings from China: 0% (GDLSK client was the only company to obtain 0% out of the 41 companies participating) and victory in ITC Final Determination (2003).
- Bicycles from China: 0% and victory in ITC Final Determination: case terminated (1996).
- Cotton Shop Towels from China: 9.19% and obtained millions in refunds (1989--1990).
- Creatine Monohydrate from China: 0% in first administrative review (2002).
- Fresh Garlic from China: 0% in new shipper review (first calculated rate in history of case) (2002)
- Lawn and Garden Fence Posts from China: 1.45% (de minimis) and 6.6% in investigation (2003).
- Steel Wire Rope from China: Obtained ITC no injury decision terminating case (2001).
- Fresh Garlic from China (Administrative Reviews and New Shipper Reviews)
- Non-Frozen Apple Juice Concentrate from China (Administrative Reviews and New Shipper)
- Honey from China (Administrative reviews and New Shipper Reviews and Appeal)
- Lawn and Garden Fence Posts from China (Appeal)
- Automotive Replacement Glass Windshields (Appeal)
- Polyethylene Carrier Bags from China (ITC and DOC Investigations)
- Petroleum Wax Candles from China (Administrative Review)
- Wood Bedroom Furniture from China (ITC and DOC Investigations)